The Holocaust was seen as a 'dry run' for the 'problem' of removing 30-40 million Slavic peoples. According To Tooze, Hitler viewed this mission much like America removed the plains Indians in their continental conquest of the previous century.

Hitler’s whole view of the war was based on his view of Aryan race superiority, combined with German technical superiority over local European nations. He viewed any war as a lighting war that would be over in a matter of months.

In order to achieve a European victory he conspired with Stalin to isolate Poland and believed he could isolate France by deceiving the British into neutrality, in exchange for non aggression against the British Empire.

As a result of these views in 1935 he redirected the German rearmament from a sustained multiyear total war capability into limited war capability with mass production of more & more infantry units and air units ,at the expense of stockpiling the resources munitions and arms needed to sustain a prolonged war..

One could say this was his first and most important mistake.

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Sincere apologies for my reply adding to this. I never should have responded and it won't happen again.

Your post is ridiculously insulting. My only question for you is, can you read?

If you can, then you obviously decided to overlook the fact that I made note of the evils the Soviets inflicted. If we were evil, is was in our misguided belief we could work with the Soviets.

As for the Roosevelt speech, he was smart enough in 1939 to see the fact that eventually, the evil that were the Nazis and Japan would eventually spread to affect the US. (and I'm no FDR fan) It was the populace who were too blinded to this fact. How does that make him or the US evil? Wait, please don't bother answering as I'm sure you will not be able to do so in an intelligent and rational manner.

You yourself have made some valid points and if I am to stand corrected on some points, so be it.. The real points I was trying to make was clearly covered and acknowledged by you and I thank you for that.. I just wish there were more people as yourself that would realize just some of those things.. The bottom line is that there is far too much hatred in far to many people to even realize the truth. I was born 12 years after the war ended so in my younger years while in public school I was called a Nazi by kids who didn't even know ehat the word meant and what was worse was being called this by the parents of these same children and that only after they found out that my parents were German and right after these children were told that they could not play with me. I was born in Canada where I still live today..

The ignorance of people is so astonishing.. Even today. I hate war of any kind and I personally feel that nobody wins. Everyone loses and the only thing that changes is who loses less and who loses more.

The good (or accurate) statements:
- everyone loses in war
- there were bad actors on both sides
- Germans were forced by the Nazis to commit terrible things
- Germans were forced by the Nazis into concentration camps
- Not all German officers were German
- Not all Germans liked or believed in Hitler, but sadly a majority did
- Pearl Harbor was a military target, but let us not forget the human tragedies the Japanese inflicted upon China (for one example) well before Pearl Harbor.

The bad (or inaccurate) statements:
- There is no good or bad in a war. Firmly disagree. There is a good and bad side to many wars and in WWII, the Nazis and Japanese Empire were very clearly bad actors and the US clearly was fighting to rid ourselves and allies of their evil. Were the allies pure in their efforts, of course not. Politics down to tactics of the allies too often were disgraceful, but the overall end game was for "good". Bottom line, there IS evil in this world and unfortunately as we see even today, too many are too willing to follow the false promises of evil doers.
- The extermination of millions of people by the Nazis for no other cause than a manufactured threat was a evil the US did not come near to in WWII, even though its ally, the Soviets, did the very same thing.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined were far fewer deaths/injured than millions
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki were picked for their military target value first. Knowledge of how many would die was uncertain, just that many would perish. Let us not forget Japan was militarily and economically beaten by Aug 1945, both sides knew it. The onus is on the evil men within the Japanese military construct that forced the "fight to death" mindset and its subsequent actions. Once again, there IS good and bad in many wars.
- There are heroes, especially in WWII. The heroes were the Germans, Poles, Austrians, etc. who refused to pick up arms for the Nazis and went to their deaths or concentration camps. They were the innocent Germans like the women and children who survived the terror brought upon their nation by the Nazis. The heroes were every man and woman who in their hearts knew they were fighting against evil, whether in Japan or Germany or elsewhere. Even those who were twisted by the evils of war from good to bad. Yes, there is good and bad in this world, and in that war it is very clear. I believe you need to rethink on that one most of all.