"The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1

[Bekah]

At 11:51 AM -0400 10/27/05, Paul Mackin wrote:
>
>It is clear to everyone, isn't it,  that the war between the Allies 
>and the Axis powers  was NOT over the Final Solution.  Rather, it 
>was that the  Nazi war machine had consumed much of Europe, at one 
>point almost to the point of an all out invasion of the British 
>Isles. The fate of Europe was in the balance. The attempt on the 
>part of the Allies to reverse the disastrous situation  would have 
>been the case with or without the Death and Labor camps. And the 
>effort of the Nazis to hang on until the bitter end would  also have 
>been the same with or without them.
>


But today, in people's minds,  WWII is far more about the Holocaust 
than it was in 1944-45.    In 1950 a book about Europe and WWII could 
have been written, and many were,  which totally ignored the "Final 
Solution," focusing instead on the "diplomacy"  and military 
strategy/maneuvers/heros  (look at all the war movies).    Today's 
readers would be very cognizant of the holocaust no matter what the 
specific WWII in Europe topic.   In the late 60s there was  a growing 
awareness of the enormity of the genocide,   but there was a more 
immediate awareness of the bomb.

Bekah