That's an interpretation of the facts. That a facility could be used for a particular purpose does not prove that the intent is to pursue that purpose. The Germans could have created the gas rooms for purposes other than "to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group", of course with hindsight we know that they did pursue the goal of mass killing.
How could one be 100% certain at the time, that the intent of the Germans was the genocide of the Jews? It was certainly to "dispose" of prisoners and the sick and elderly and in large numbers but does that prove a desire to see all Jews exterminated? The development of gassing rooms alone does not seem to me to prove that the Germans sought the destruction of the race.
Let me stress too, there is no doubt that the Germans did seek the destruction of the Jewish race, this is in no doubt. What is being discussed is how - at the time - one could have looked around and concluded that this was their goal, the existence of rooms suitable for mass gassing doesn't in and of itself prove the intent.
This is like someone saying to you that the destruction of all water pumps and tanks and desalination plants within Gaza could be used "to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group" but although that's true, that everyone in Gaza could die from lack of water and appalling conditions of hygiene, the destruction of all sources of water is not itself evidence of intent or is it?
I agree with your argument that possession of a deadly device does not mean that the owner intends to use it for homicidal purposes.
For example, I've got a revolver that is the same make, model and age as the one used by David Berkowitz (aka "Son of Sam") but I've killed no one with it and don't plan to do so.
As you are aware both sides used propaganda during WW 2.
The American propaganda ministry was the O.W.I. (Office of War Information) but was dwarfed by the older and more experienced British Propagandists but they both had Hollywood's movie moguls to demonize the Germans and employ atrocity propaganda (4) during and long after the war.
Nothing that Goebbels had could rival British experience in propaganda or Hollywood's masters of creative fantasy and the flood of gruesome fables and grisly hoaxes like the ones in the photo, below, continue to deceive much of the Western world, today.
Even though the Soviets repurposed former German work camps into Soviet gulags, Hollywood, the OWI and the Holocaust Industry made their own theatric alterations that have succeeded in deceiving tourists for generations.
I have lived, worked with and known over a dozen Holocaust survivors, former Russian WW 2 survivors and German WW 2 Veterans and even more American WW 2 Veterans.
A "White" Russian woman whose family was murdered and home burned by the "Red" Russians was captured by Allied and Axis forces during the course of the war and maintained that the Germans treated her the best.
Based on their collective experiences, studying salient documents in the original German and about 60 years independent research I cannot believe that Hitler either hated or ordered the destruction of Europe's Jews.
I attempt to be objective even though even the mention of the name, Hitler, incites strong emotions not always based on fact that it is difficult to discuss him calmly, honestly or objectively.
I suspect that as long as Hollywood continues to churn out melodramatic and one dimensional Holocaust fiction it will be a while before JFK's prediction comes true:
“You can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived,” Kennedy wrote in his diary in 1945.”
Writing in 1945, the future President predicted that Hitler would be "one of the most significant figures who ever lived"
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I also suspect that if the war crimes of Allied leaders received the same through and objective scrutiny that they, too would have met the gallows at Nuremberg .
Re: Let me stress too, there is no doubt that the Germans did seek the destruction of the Jewish race, this is in no doubt.
I have found absolutely nothing to support the contention that: ".
..the Germans did seek the destruction of the Jewish race,"
First, unlike, Stalin, Churchill, Mao, Eisenhower and Pol Pot, there are no written orders from Hitler for he mass killing of Europe's Jews:
“To the present day a written order by Hitler regarding the destruction of the European Jewish community has not been found, and, in all probability, this order was never given.”
- Walter Laqueur, Was niemand wissen wollte: Die Unterdruckung der Nachrichten uber Hitlers Endlösung (What Nobody Wanted to Know: The Suppression of News About Hitler’s “Final Solution”), (Berlin-Vienna, 1981), p.190
Additionally, there were about 150,000 Jews in Hitlers military (1), (2) and there were also high ranking Nazi Party officials who were Jewish.(3)
On top of that, Hitler's doctor was Jewish, his driver was Jewish, he was a "Pen Pal" with a young Jewish girl who shared the same birthday.
I'm interested in your thoughts at what I have tried to look at objectively.
Thanks,
(1). “Hitler’s Jewish Army”
http://counterpsyops.com/2013/02/14/...-hitlers-army/
EXCERPT “Thousands of men of Jewish descent and hundreds of what the Nazis called ‘full Jews’ served in the German military with Adolf Hitler’s knowledge and approval.
In approximately 20 cases, Jewish soldiers in the Nazi army were awarded(*)Germany’s highest military honor, the Knight’s Cross.
Jews also served in the Nazi police and security forces as ghetto police(Ordnungdienst)(
)and concentration camp guards()(kapos).
So what happens to the claim that Hitler sought to exterminate all Jews, when he allowed some of them to join in his struggle against Bolshevism and International finance capitalism?
“If the Jews were permitted to serve in Hitler’s armed forces then there could not have been a Holocaust.”CONTINUED
(2). "Historian claims Hitler personally approved officers of Jewish descent to fight for Nazis"
ADOLF HITLER personally allowed at least 77 army officers of Jewish descent, including 25 generals, to fight for the Nazi cause…
ADOLF HITLER personally allowed at least 77 army officers of Jewish descent, including 25 generals, to fight for the Nazi cause…
www.irishtimes.com
EXCERPT ""In many cases, Hitler decided personally what should be done with soldiers of Jewish descent - and he made different decisions from case to case."
The most senior general of Jewish origin was Field Marshall Erhard Milch, who rose to be general inspector of the Luftwaffe and was convicted of war crimes after 1945." CONTINUED
(3). “List of Nazis of non-Germanic descent”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazis_of_non-Germanic_descent
EXCERPT “Notably, there were several high-ranking Nazis of full and partial Jewish descent. “ CONTINUED
(4). “The Director of the Holocau$t - Khazar Expatriate Billy Wilder”
The Director of the Holocaust - Khazar Expatriate Billy Wilder Almost all the films you've ever seen of the Holocaust were staged. Using Allied propaganda as...
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EXCERPT
“Almost all the films you've ever seen of the Holocaust were staged. Using Allied propaganda as a rough script, directors from Hollywood were shipped to Germany and Poland to direct propaganda films for post-war use. One of the most notable of these was Billy Wilder, director of meny very well known films, such as "Some Like It Hot" with Marilyn Monroe." CONTINUED
