WWII in GR

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Dave Monroe wrote:

> I've been taking a the broad view here, for the most part, though I do
> recall referring to specifics when I felt it necessary.  But just about
> everything seems to have been going on at Dora, which is the primary example
> here ...

This may be true so far as HERE is concerned (if there's a here here) but
for an association with "The Holocaust" in more than a general
sense of Nazi inhumanity and atrociousness in its pursuit of the war the
choice would probably be IG Farben because of its use of Auschwitz inmates
for slave labor and drug experiments and most specifically for production
of the gas used in the gas chambers. The connections are mostly implied is
the only thing. We have to bring our previous knowledge to the situation.

			P.



> 
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> > When people talk about whether GR makes appreciable reference to "The
> > Holocaust" what precisely or even loosely is meant by the term. Because
> > "The Holocaust" can have narrow or more extended meanings. Probably not
> > everyone in the discussion is using the word in the same way. So, for
> > purposes of this ongoing controversy, is "The Holocaust" to be narrowly
> > defined as the Nazi project to exterminate European Jews, or does it
> > extend to the elimination of other undesired groups as well such a
> > communists and socialist and homosexuals and gypsies, or does it extend
> > still further to Nazi crimes against humanity in general, including the
> > working-to-death of prisoners of all varieties in pursuit of winning the
> > war?
> >
> >                 P.
>