[extropy-chat] Re: is america fascist yet?

[Stephen Van_Sickle]

Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Depends on which history classes you are talking about, and who is
>writing the history books. The Final Solution was only implemented late
>in the war as a means of concealing the slave labor and substandard
>living conditions, human experiments, etc. from the inevitable war
>crimes investigators. At least until 1943, the only gas chambers were
>used to delouse clothing of prisoners (they weren't tall enough for a
>person to stand in).  

Where did you learn *your* history?  Gas chambers (carbon monoxide) were in use from 1940 onward, for use with "defectives.   SS Special Action units followed the army into the Soviet Union, conducting mass executions by firing squad, graduated to gas vans.  The classic "gas chambers" of Poland were not the start of the Final Solution, but its culmination.  Even if you only set the date of the start of the Final Solution as the Wansee conference, that is Jan 1942, well before it became obvious to anyone, let alone the Nazis, that they would have to answer for their actions.  Mass gassings were well underway in 1942, not 1943 as you say.  

 

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