The whole use of the term punishment was meant to deceive and deflect knowledge of what the concentration camps really were. That's the problem with that phrase.
Haider tried to equate a term that is fundamentally understood to meant a penalty for wrongdoing with the Nazi death camps. With that he tried to distort the reality of the concentration camps.
Oh yes. This is not some case of competing national interests, of people and leaders at odds because they're serving their countries.Really?
Nazi Germany was evil. They were not serving their own interests, even in a wrong way. They were a tool of evil.
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Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
Do you honestly believe anyone at that debate didn't know what he meant when he said "the punishment camps of National Socialism"?
Oh yes. This is not some case of competing national interests, of people and leaders at odds because they're serving their countries.
Nazi Germany was evil. They were not serving their own interests, even in a wrong way. They were a tool of evil.
CR
A tool of evil, huh? You give them too much credit. There were plenty of governments that utilized genocide before them, and there have been plenty since. The Nazis can't even claim the top body count, not by far.
Someone get this man an Indian to talk to...
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