Millions of people were killed for no reason other than they believed something that wasn't EXACTLY the same as the people in power.
Nobody's disputing that -- at least, I'm not. But neither do I think that it is good to believe a falsehood. In other words: the Nazis did enough bad things that are well documented. It serves no purpose to attribute things to them that they did not do.
Did the Nazis build gas chambers? I'm not taking a side on that question at the moment. But I think that, like any other claim of that sort, it deserves careful investigation. The memory of the Nazis' victims would not be honored by anything less.
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Date: 2007-02-25 11:12 pm (UTC)Nobody's disputing that -- at least, I'm not. But neither do I think that it is good to believe a falsehood. In other words: the Nazis did enough bad things that are well documented. It serves no purpose to attribute things to them that they did not do.
Did the Nazis build gas chambers? I'm not taking a side on that question at the moment. But I think that, like any other claim of that sort, it deserves careful investigation. The memory of the Nazis' victims would not be honored by anything less.