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From: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
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Subject: WW 2
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 22:36:54 EDT
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Some points I feel need to be raised about all the discussion
about Reagan's Bitburg visit:

1) Jews weren't the only ones in the concentration camps. Millions
   of christians died in them too. Other groups the Nazis tried to
   get rid of included political prisoners, mentally deficient
   people, and the population of the areas of Russia that they
   overran.

2) Being in the German army (the Wehrmacht) did not make one a Nazi.
   Technically, a Nazi was a member of the National Socialist
   Worker's Party, nazi was slang for that. The Germans were short
   of manpower during the war, and they drafted all the able-bodied
   men they could. Refusing to be drafted would surely land one in
   jail, certainly a difficult choice for anyone in any country in
   time of war.

3) Being in the SS was different, one had a choice about that. Correct
   me if I'm wrong, but I think that one had to be a card-carrying
   Nazi to be in the SS, else you wound up in the Wehrmacht. Also,
   the SS, not the Wehrmacht, was in charge of the concentration
   camps.