re: #184 Tigger2005

And actually, I shouldn’t have said “do MORE to save the Jews.” Because beyond doing our bit to win the war, we did absolutely fucking nothing to help the Jews. We could have taken hundreds of thousands of them in. We could have bombed the train tracks leading to the death camps, and the death camps themselves. We didn’t. There is no excuse.

We could have accepted boatloads of Jewish refugees.

Bluntly, that other stuff wouldn’t really have helped. The camps were designed as an efficiency solution; they would have gone back to machine-gunning Jews where they found them, and forced penal battalions to do it, or something else. The camps were just a method to the evil.

What we should have done is take in Jewish refugees— take in more refugees in general, too, but obviously especially Jewish and Roma and Polish and 7th Day Adventists and the other people on the Nazi’s death list.