Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
Let me throw something out for discussion... it's controversial, but I'm seriously not trying to get anyone wound up. It's something I heard once and it struck me as a unique perspective (not saying right or wrong... just very unique) about WWII.

The huge shock "to the system" to the modern/western world about Nazi Germany and WWII, was not that all of the atrocities were new or being committed for the first time. But because, for the first time, the pattern of conquest and ethnic subjugation and extermination which had been perpetuated by Europe upon much of the rest of the world for the previous few centuries, was, for the first time, being conducted UPON Europeans, by another European power.

Thoughts?
Eh. I blame the industrialization of the killings. WWI the Crimea the civil all threw good white men into the meat grinders. Jews wernt "white" anyway. It was more along the lines of the assembly line way it was carried out.