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Originally Posted by morse1001  at its height, over half a million germans and others were invovled in the holocaust and that kept the away from the front line. |
That statistic is quite a moral conundrom. If we had to ask people whether they would have preferred those germans to be on the frontlines or involved in the holocaust, what would they say? On the one hand they wouldn't be killing Jews, but on the other, those extra men (even if we were take it as read that only a minority would be capable of combat) could/would have made a difference on the frontlines, impeeding the Allied victory.
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Originally Posted by spidge I do agree that most of what you say is plausible however the commandeering of rail stock and the troops involved showed that they would stop at nothing to achieve their goal of obliteration of the Jewish race.
The "safe haven" that was the ghetto would have eventually disappeared and corralling and mass slaughter would have eventually occurred.
These killers were men & women who ate drank and slept the final solution and had no limitations placed on their actions. |
I agree that the way that holocaust developed shows that the Nazis were willing to sacrifice victory for completing their "task".
However, the any delays in transportation, deportation to the camps and/or the emptying of the ghettos would have more of a difference to the surviving Jews than inaction. For every day's delay, the Nazi defeat came closer.