Quote (El1te @ 8 Oct 2024 06:00)
I mean this is forbidden history, especially in your country so I understand if you don't want to discuss it out of fear of persecution by the state
Lmao, Germany is not an authoritarian shithole or a police state. I surely don't shy away from debates or standpoints out of fear of government persecution.
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But just know that people don't just decide to invade people for no reason, it's simply not how the human condition operates.
Of course not, I never claimed that either?! The Nazis wanted to invade Eastern Europe for
Lebensraum and to further their quest to eradicate the Jews, which at the time were more numerous in Eastern than Western Europe. They also wanted to steal the resources and find some slave labor to exploit.
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The genocides in Poland were happening well before 1939 and were ongoing since hostilities first ended in 1918 when Germany was in a weak and fragile state
Yes, the entire region was in essentially a continuous state of war from 1914 all the way through 1945. During the interwar period which saw tenuous peace in Western Europe, there was ongoing fighting in the East between various parties at the periphery of the frailing Russian Empire. After the Soviets had won the Russian civil war, ethnic cleansings, forced mass starvations and so on began while the Poles kept fighting against the Lithuanians and the Soviets, there were also conflicts further south-east in Bessarabia etc. pp.
This does not mean that the war crimes committed by the Poles stood out relative to the standards of the time, nor that they were the actual casus belli for Hitler and Stalin. To be honest, it's quite baffling how your position seems to be "Hitler and Stalin - two of the most bloodthirsty dictators in the history of mankind - actually had morally legitimate reasons to invade their smaller neighbor."
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Oct 8 2024 09:13am