Why did the Germans intern Jews in concentration
camps?
9. Why did the Germans intern Jews in concentration camps?
The IHR says:
Because the Germans considered Jews a direct threat to their national
sovereignty and survival, and because Jews were overwhelmingly
represented in Communist subversion. However, all suspected security
risks -- not only Jews -- were in danger of internment.
The Samisdat version says:
Because the Germans considered Jews a direct threat to their national
sovereignity and survival. Jews were overwhelmingly represented in
Germany in communist subversion. On a per-capita basis, Jews were over
represented in key government and commercial positions and professions.
However, all suspected security risks -- not only Jews -- were in danger
of internment.
Nizkor replies:
All the Jews were Communists or risks to national security?
And the Jews of other countries, such as Poland? And the homosexuals,
and the gypsies? This is Nazi propaganda of the worst kind reincarnated.
The statement about Jews being "overwhelmingly represented" in
"Communist subversion" and in the wrong
"professions" is an exact echo of antisemitic Nazi propaganda.
The fact is that the Nazis used such propaganda to justify the
slaughter of every Jew they found behind the advancing Eastern front,
and in every other country they overran: millions of them, men, women,
and children.
Holocaust-deniers, by the way, admit that hundreds of thousands of
Jews, including women and children, were shot in the eastern
territories. (See
next question.)
The Nazis claimed it was justified because of the wartime conditions.
To find the same justifications turning up again, fifty years later, is,
in our opinion, horrifying.
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