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Well, you'll note I didn't make that causal relation you attribute to me. Legolas Send a noteboard - 16/08/2010 09:55:39 PM
And yeah, Dachau was originally for political dissidents as opposed to Work Jews to Death, but I don't think it's safe to say Hitler started engaging in genocide because he declared war

All I said was without the war there wouldn't have been a Holocaust. By which I mean there wouldn't have been anything even remotely comparable to what we now know as the Holocaust. I did not mean, obviously, that he wouldn't have killed any Jews, since he'd killed a number in the thirties. But a number that really doesn't compare to what happened later on. Wikipedia has it that there were about 200k Jews left in Germany at the beginning of the war; that's a very far cry from 6 million, and with such drastically lower numbers, it's not at all certain they'd even have bothered coming up with an "Endlösung". See also my reply to DK (the first one).
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At what point does it become ok to take over a country? - 16/08/2010 04:25:09 PM 1301 Views
why would we want to make Mexico our problem? *NM* - 16/08/2010 04:30:48 PM 359 Views
Well, generally it's no longer seen as acceptable. - 16/08/2010 04:38:11 PM 938 Views
Revolución! *NM* - 16/08/2010 04:47:55 PM 335 Views
When it spills your pint and eyes up your woman? - 16/08/2010 04:53:29 PM 812 Views
When they get on your nerves or have something you want, preferably both - 16/08/2010 05:04:10 PM 831 Views
I agree we should attack Canada instead - 16/08/2010 05:19:48 PM 826 Views
west point? *NM* - 16/08/2010 08:56:58 PM 307 Views
Well take over and intervene are two totally different things - 16/08/2010 09:00:50 PM 1035 Views
never *NM* - 16/08/2010 09:05:03 PM 341 Views
Not even Hitler's Germany? (if he never went to war but just stayed put) Reply to Yuna *NM* - 16/08/2010 09:24:41 PM 430 Views
If he had never gone to war, that would also have meant no Holocaust... *NM* - 16/08/2010 09:28:16 PM 334 Views
Dachau opened in '33, Nuremburg Laws were '35 - 16/08/2010 09:36:59 PM 760 Views
Ok that's what I was thinking - 16/08/2010 09:45:51 PM 801 Views
Uh, yeah, see, there's a difference between "blaming" and "exterminating". - 16/08/2010 09:52:37 PM 802 Views
Re: Uh, yeah, see, there's a difference between "blaming" and "exterminating". - 16/08/2010 09:54:29 PM 739 Views
I don't know if there's really anything to specifically compare it to... - 16/08/2010 10:00:59 PM 911 Views
Also, perhaps someone should just invoke the (variation of the) Godwin Law and stop this whole thing - 16/08/2010 10:02:23 PM 813 Views
Ah, - 16/08/2010 10:04:39 PM 724 Views
I second the motion to invoke Godwin's Law for closure... - 16/08/2010 10:11:22 PM 857 Views
Perhaps - 16/08/2010 09:46:55 PM 716 Views
Well, you'll note I didn't make that causal relation you attribute to me. - 16/08/2010 09:55:39 PM 850 Views
The Dachau follow up was bookkeeping - 16/08/2010 10:05:35 PM 800 Views
The US already took half of Mexico, so why not the other half? - 16/08/2010 09:57:56 PM 847 Views
"Took" is an unfriendly word, we purchased it *NM* - 16/08/2010 10:21:58 PM 348 Views
yes after a messy political and physical "conflict" - 16/08/2010 10:53:22 PM 815 Views
There was also the Gasdsen Purchase - 17/08/2010 12:30:21 AM 769 Views
The Gadsden Purchase was a pittance and an afterthought, as I'm sure you're aware. - 18/08/2010 12:36:24 PM 679 Views
It is fairly large, but yes - 18/08/2010 02:21:25 PM 757 Views
Well, yes, it WAS a purchase, but then, it would be. - 18/08/2010 03:22:23 PM 1204 Views
and why did it belong to Mexico to begin with? *NM* - 17/08/2010 01:28:28 AM 372 Views
same way it seems to be the way most people who own the Americas came to own it. - 17/08/2010 01:46:49 AM 637 Views
At least we took the time to conquer it - 18/08/2010 05:20:57 PM 982 Views
well they were not using it *NM* - 17/08/2010 01:27:47 AM 320 Views
Once you solved all your own problems, I'm sure. *NM* - 16/08/2010 10:58:28 PM 336 Views
We should seal our border and peform drone strikes on cartels. - 17/08/2010 12:58:37 AM 658 Views
Re: We should seal our border and peform drone strikes on cartels. - 17/08/2010 02:39:11 AM 730 Views
Re: We should seal our border and peform drone strikes on cartels. - 17/08/2010 03:34:59 AM 896 Views
I think maybe we've had enough of nation building for a while *NM* - 17/08/2010 02:45:22 AM 326 Views

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