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From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: War Criminals
Message-ID: <473@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 15:17:23 EST
Article-I.D.: mnetor.473
Posted: Fri Apr 26 15:17:23 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Apr-85 17:28:18 EST
References: <2186@utcsstat.UUCP> <458@mnetor.UUCP> <624@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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Summary: 

In article <624@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>
>Sorry, Chris. Millions of Poles and Russians did die in WWII, but
>there was no Nazi policy of murdering *all* Poles or *all* Russians.
>Europe was to be made "Judenrein" (not Polenrein or Russenrein).

True - not as a "up-front" explicit policy.  However, upon 
occasion such policy was made up "on-the-fly".  Think of the 
"kill/destroy anything inside Warsaw" directive when the Poles 
attempted to rebel (expecting the Russians to be there to help).  
Also, think of the "slave-labour" camps where Eastern Europeans and 
Russians were worked to death (or sent to the camps if they couldn't
work).  Granted, this are not exactly extermination of a race, 
but the atrocity was not *only* "Judenrein" it was the up-front 
"Aryans superiority".  Poles, Russians, and lots of other people 
(including some Allied POW's) died in the concentration camps 
for simply not being Aryan.

I see no effective difference between the Judenrein policy subset
of the Aryan superiority (send all East Europeans to the camps if
they couldn't work) policy.  The *only* difference is that
the Germans liked Jews *even less* than East Europeans and that
most Jews didn't get a chance to live a little longer by working
in the forced labour camps.
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