The only similarity between Hitler’s views on Jews and Communists would seem to be he regarded them both as inferior. Of course antisemitism existed long before Hitler but no one else took their hatred to the extremes of the Nazis. That was caused by something more than antisemitism.

That the Nazis killed many more Slavs is undoubtedly true but those were during a war. Not of your own people and civilians in countries you had occupied in the most heinous of ways. Mass murder on an industrial scale cannot be compared to deaths in wartime, even if many were deliberately done or collateral damage.

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Hitler certainly had nothing to do with validating genetic heritage. Nor anything directly to do with the subject of this thread. On that we can agree. I didn’t though ever suggest anything different. It’s merely an example of where attitudes can lead.

Lest we forget.

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'Mass murder on an industrial scale cannot be compared to deaths in wartime'

Yes it can....in fact I find the distinction rather arbitrary.

Rather like the distinction between dying of friendly fire or enemy fire.....the end result is the same, you're dead.

As for Hitler viewing communists as inferior.....I tend to get the impression that this poster hasn't actually read much on the topic of Hitler's motivations.

Hitler certainly had it in for the Jews, but it wasn't exclusive to them....Stalin also had it in for Ukrainians a few years before him...Still, that was kind of ignored.

Hitler thought the spread of communism in Europe was existential to Germany and that fascist Germany and communist Russia couldn't co-exist without one destroying the other.....He thought that Germany wouldn't survive unless it expanded into the east.

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Whilst no one could possibly argue that death from any cause still results in death, when assessing the ethics or morality of the perpetrators there is a difference between acts of war and the mass murder of civilians. Only the wilfully stubborn would try to argue otherwise.

As to the idea that Hitler’s hatred of communism was based on the fear that Germany couldn’t survive unless it destroyed the Soviets and wasn’t similar to his hatred of the Jews. Other opinions exist:-

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We have one poster here who tries to link immigration to every possible subject.

Now we witness another linking a pet obsession, this one on anti-abortion, to this thread. Which is about who is English!

And then pile nonsense on top of diversion by describing unviable foetuses as “health human infants”!

I’ve read some preposterous claims from the anti-abortonists in the past but that one will take some beating.

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There are also some fair points being made about soldiers being conscripts and the deliberate targeting of civilian areas but nonetheless these were all done during war time. The thinking behind the use of nuclear bombs in Japan allegedly being that by stopping the war the overall losses would be lessened.

No one likes abortion. So much better to avoid getting pregnant than to terminate it. However, sometimes it becomes the least worse option. Accurate language matters. A caterpillar is not a butterfly, although it could, in time and with good fortune, become one. A foetus is not a healthy human infant. (Nor is flour and water a cake. It needs time and heat for that transition to occur.) Deciding at which point on the pathway from fertilised egg to a sentient human being viability occurs is a job for expert analysis. Not emotional responses. Setting that point as the one where abortion is always the worst option is logical.

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The Hitler regime was geocidal and I'll never support that.

However, involving ourselves in its war with communism hasn't worked out for us.

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