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> Ok, well what about the idea that WWII was fought to save the Jews from Hitler? Does anyone really think that? I've never heard that idea posed.

• grandalf 17y ago
  this is a very popular view. Are you serious?
  • anamax 17y ago
    "WWII was about saving Jews" may be a popular view now, but the death camps and the like were not well known during the war. I doubt that many Russians fought to save Jews, or that common knowledge of the Holocaust would have changed the number. Maybe some French and Italians might have been more interested.
    • grandalf 17y ago
      It is used as evidence that the US involvement was just, rather than just self-interested.
      • anamax 17y ago
        It wasn't used at the time in any significant way. Saving the French was seen as significant.
        • grandalf 17y ago
          Why is it then so controversial today that IBM sold computers to the Nazi regime?
          • anamax 17y ago
            Because they were Nazis, the enemy, and all that. Note that "controversial today" doesn't tell us anything about the story in the 1930s and 40s.
  • chollida1 17y ago
    Well to be fair to you I am Canadian. This point of view could be entirely American?