harry

Hi,

lets hope 'Stare at the Sun' is just being provocative in order to get the discussion going. Whenever I hear someone start a sentence with 'I know the Nazis were bad, but...' I get the creeps.

Actually I think its rather useless to argue wether there were 500 000 jewish victims of the NSDAP or a million or 6 million and I dont quite see the point in it. I just wanted to state that until 1937 about 50 jewish Austrians lived in the town where I was born. 15 of them were murdered the rest emmigrated, only one family returned after the war. So even in a small town of about 10000 people there have been victims. And im not counting the 'arians' that have been killed because they were social democrats, communists or even catholics who wouldnt cooperate with the new regime.

So even as a non-historian I can say that all over Austria the bodycount must have been enormous (especially in Vienna with its jewish community of almost 250000 up to the incorporation of Austria into the 'Reich', at least 40000 of whom didnt survive the holocaust). If you take into consideration that Hitler ruled almost all over Europe for a couple of years 6 Million does not sound like much of an exaggeration to me.

Anyway what I actually wanted to say, is that even for what they have done to my hometown, my country and its people Hitler and all Nazis and Nazi-Sympathizers derserve to rot in hell for all eternity - no matter how many highways they built or how great a protege of the arms industry Adolf Hitler was .