Hannover said Why would any SS man talk to and allow themselves to be quoted by Revisionists in the first place? The SS was ridiculously labelled a criminal organization outright, with severe hardships placed upon it's members after the war. A former SS member is not going to risk further discomfort...

Well,
When i say that Genocide are impossible to quantify, that means that behind general estimations, it is silly to minimize or maximize or to stick with a symbolic number. And i would add that in a historical perspective, the numbers don't matter that much.

Repeating myself, A Genocide is per definition not quantifiable...unless of course the result is the anihilation of 100% of the targeted group. Because none of them took place in any legal system (to be understood as a legal and official public administration)... Using demographic sources does not l...

As a fact neutrality status did not prevent Hitler to invade countries like Belgium and Luxembourg. The case of Switzerland have certainly be thought, but as rejected as a frontal assault on the maginot line. Switzerland is a natural fortress, and its army is organized as a well trained militia. It ...

As usual : - photographs made by the Germans - An official investigation by the Wehrmacht - confession by captured Poles (soldiers and civilians) - Germans eye-witness As usual as well debate on the number of deaths : that goes from 100 (polish historians) to 415 (german historians) to 5500 (think t...

which part are you interrested in ? The first part claims that Hitler is a consequence of the dictate of Versaille...which is true...and covers the responsabilities of WW1... The second ask the question : "Hitler a dictator ?" - Did Hitler imposed himself through terror ? (nope) - Why Hitl...

How do we know this lost clam is an Historian, by the way ?
This all question/answer thing looks more like yahoo.best answer stuff than a historical forum to me.

Edit : gosh Cloud, i just had a look on your link...makes me wonder, what does it take to become an historian in the USA ?

@Hannover and Friedrich What i believe personnally does not matter. Just to comment, Israel defines itself as a "Jewish state" so the ethnic part of its identity is quite clear. Being Jewish as a condition to join the army is quite logic as well. As far as i know, Japan does not have racia...

@friedrich You misunderstood me. I am not using those concept of "Racism" or "appartheid" in the today sense...but as they existed and the meanings they had in those days. Racism = the belief that some race are genetically superior to other. Apartheid = a concept that says that i...

The same problem you get with every single real survivors that still can tell "THEIR" stories. In 2012; they can only have been children. And children have their own way to deal with bad memories...a kind of "Peter Pan syndrom" so to speak. Some embelish it other darken it. What ...

What is wrong here ? My question was about a hypothetical myth about National socialism being racist. The world by then was essentially racist. Most people shared the apartheid-like concept of living together. Immigration was almost non existant anyway, except to the USA, where very harsh laws guara...

I don't understand the topic. What is a myth ? the blond hair blue eyes is everywhere in the Nazi propaganda http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/data/images/1007767-Propagande_nationale-socialiste.jpg http://enfance-sous-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale.e-monsite.com/medias/album/p4-jeunesses-hitleriennes...

i know
was just checking.

So why would the Germans register this guy and allow the registration record to exist Is this a German document? Document does not mentioned who issued it. Only date I see is 1.4.41, which is before German occupation of Stryj. If this is even authentic, much dubious stuff seems to come from that re...

Those are press releases, there are rarely accurate especially during war time...Could also be a misunderstanding, as a load of ghettos were being "liquidated" at that time. The Lodz Ghetto lasted untill 1944...that does not mean that some transfer among its population did not happen of co...