cyberdad wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
Anybody who doesn’t care about the Holocaust has something VERY wrong with them.
I'm sure you mean't plural 'holocausts" because genocide has happened plenty of times in history. There's no oppression olympics, everyone has suffered throughout history but the German Nazis and their allies were particularly (and unnecessarily) cruel to jews, gyspies and other unfortunates who didn't meet their standards.
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The Notorious Rheinwiesenlager – Thousands of Germans Died in American-Run POW Camps In Germany in 1945
For all but fringe debaters on the subject, the book is closed. The horror and death caused my maltreatment or murder in German, Japanese and Russian prisoner of war (POW) camps stains the history of these countries red, and is still painful for many, on all sides of Word War II, to even mention.
However, over the years, controversy has lingered over another group of camps. Many still claim that these camps were another war crime, this time committed by the Americans, under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower: the Rheinwiesenlager.
The Rheinwiesenlager were a group of American prison camps built along the Rhein river in April 1945 as the Allied Forcers were taking control and occupation of Germany. Around half of German soldiers captured in the West at the end of the war were placed in these camps. Most of the rest were placed in British and French custody.