Re: Comments on other threads.
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2026 11:55 am
Callafangers;
https://codohforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=20509#p20509
Churchill was being more specific. He believed bombing would bring about the fall of Hitler, it was a means to win and end the war. He was not referring to the extermination of Germans and Germany.
https://codohforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=20509#p20509
Himmler's use of ausrotung can mean both root and exterminate. The policy was to both root out and exterminate, but not all Jews who were rooted out were exterminated. Many were rooted out and allowed to leave, so long they paid and left their property behind. Others fled for fear of being rooted out. Others were not exterminated and instead used as slave labourers. Himmler, like other senior Nazis, wanted to create a smoke screen, especially in the West and with Western Jews, that they would be the subject of arrest and relocation.This, my friends, is called having your cake and eating it too.
i) Himmler's Ausrottung must be perceived genocidally and anything else is an issue, meanwhile
ii) Churchill's Exterminating Attack will be permitted to have multiple interpretations simultaneously so I can't be pinned down, and despite me doubling down that it's a genocide therefore so is Himmler
Churchill was being more specific. He believed bombing would bring about the fall of Hitler, it was a means to win and end the war. He was not referring to the extermination of Germans and Germany.