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It stands to reason that had Nazi Germany not attacked its neighbors, the rest of the world would have happily stood by and watched them execute their own Jewis
by causality0 6y ago
It stands to reason that had Nazi Germany not attacked its neighbors, the rest of the world would have happily stood by and watched them execute their own Jewish/undesirables population with nothing more than some strongly-worded letters and trade sanctions.
- jkhdigital 6y agoProbably true, although in that case at least the non-German victims would have been spared so the scale of the slaughter would have been reduced.
- PeterisP 6y agoYes, sure, that's the prevailing opinion probably since even before WW2 had ended. Though without attacking neighbours, the scale of Holocaust would be greatly limited, since just a small fraction of all the killed people lived within the borders of pre-war Germany. If we look at all the (many!) genocides of 20th century, it's clear that the world is not going to respond with military intervention as long as you're executing your own 'undesirables' and not attacking your neighbours.
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- mlang23 6y agoYou mean like when tibet was invaded, and the whole world immediately joined forces to stop that. Hmm. I think it is more "what is close to the west is important to the west". People dont count, not even today. Money and economics count. People are born every day. It is a cruel world that claims humanity exists to cloud its own shortcomings. It is sad to watch.
- Flankk 6y agoThe public knew of work camps but did not know the conditions. It's my understanding the Nazis later turned some of the camps into death camps and attempted to keep that a secret. I believe the war was already underway by then. The world was a very different place as well. Segregation and eugenics were accepted practice back then.
- st1x7 6y agoMost likely. People often forget that before the invasion of Poland in 1939 Germany had already annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia. So even attacks on neighbouring nations had to escalate quite a bit before any action was taken by the UK and France.
- vkazanov 6y agoHm. But action were taken, no? Both power mentioned were happy to let Germany eat both austria and Czechoslovakia: see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement The idea was to let Germany fight Soviets in the east, while British and french were hiding behind that fortification line.
- st1x7 6y agoI meant actual action. The Munich agreement was just a meeting that allowed Germany to keep things up without making any concessions in return. From the wikipedia article that you linked: > Today, the Munich Agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement, and the term has become "a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist totalitarian states".
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y agoI mean, yeah. The world stood by and let the Rwandan genocide happen, and you could argue that we let North Korea continue on with its forced labor and re-education camps today, pushing back with nothing more than strongly worded letters and trade sanctions.