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Re:100-year-old former Nazi guard has gone on trial, facing ... by lmilcin on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:22AM (#28797974)
There is a fundamental difference between being incompetent at waging war and organized, systematic action to erase an entire group of people simply because of their genes.

If you really want to compare Nazi to US you would have to imagine US using their industry and war machine to try and kill every single Afghani or Muslim in the world. See how ridiculous this sounds? That is because these two acts are not really comparable in any meaningful way.

My grandparents lived through the war in Poland and I spent my childhood listening to their stories.

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Re:100-year-old former Nazi guard has gone on trial, facing ... by boomboomsubban on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:35AM (#28798068)
The acts of the US do not need to be as bad as the Nazis to still be ruled as murder. Killing thousands of civilians is still terrible even though killing millions is worse.
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Re:100-year-old former Nazi guard has gone on trial, facing ... by swayvil on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:32AM (#28798034)
The racism was just marketing. The purpose of that marketing was to create an enemy. The first ingredient in any war.

The purpose of the war was to acquire wealth for its investors. Just like any war.

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