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    Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
    Nope, I am not justifying the idiocy of anti-Semitism. I am only pointing out that it existed, and was very real to these people. The "fact" that European Jewry was a subversive force within German society was taken for granted.
    And? Does it make it any more right?

    The allies, on the other hand, had no inaccurate predispositions about the Axis populace. They simply killed for fun, terror, body counts, gold teeth, revenge, and to show off.
    Are you aware of the numerous occasions the Germans intentionally bombed civilian cities? Or are you just being obtuse?

    From Wikipedia, German War Crimes other than the Holocaust and the concentration camps.

    Invasion of Poland, in the period of 1st September- 25th October 1939 German Wehrmacht during its military actions engaged in executions of Polish POWs, bombed hospitals, murdered civilians, shot refugees, executed wounded soldiers. The cautious estimates give a number of at least 16,000 murdered victims [1]
    Pacification Operations in German occupied Poland, during the occupation of Poland by German Reich, Wehrmacht forces took part in several pacification actions in rural areas, that resulted in murder of at least 20,000 Polish villagers
    Le Paradis massacre, May 1940, British soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, captured by the SS and subsequently murdered. Fritz Knoechlein tried, found guilty and hanged.
    Wormhoudt massacre, May 1940, British and French soldiers captured by the SS and subsequently murdered. No one found guilty of the crime.
    Vinkt Massacre
    d'Ardenne Massacres, June 1944 Canadian soldiers captured by the SS and Murdered by 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. SS General Kurt Meyer (Panzermeyer) sentenced to be shot 1946; sentence commuted; released 1954
    Malmedy massacre, December 1944, United States POWs captured by Kampfgruppe Peiper were murdered outside of Malmedy, Belgium.
    Gardelegen (war crime)
    Marzabotto massacre
    Sant'Anna di Stazzema
    Cefalonia Massacre
    Oradour-sur-Glane
    The annihilation of the Czech city of Lidice
    Massacre of Kalavryta
    The treatment of Soviet POWs throughout the war, who were not given the protections and guarantees of the Geneva Convention
    Unrestricted submarine warfare against merchant shipping.
    The intentional destruction of major medieval churches of Novgorod, of monasteries in the Moscow region (e.g., of New Jerusalem Monastery) and of the imperial palaces around St. Petersburg (many of them were left by the post-war authorities in ruins or simply demolished).
    The campaign of extermination of Slavic population in the occupied territories. Several thousand villages were burned with their entire population (e.g., Khatyn massacre in Belarus). Every fourth inhabitant of Belarus did not survive the German occupation.
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