[HPforGrownups] Re: OT--Holocaust thing

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 11573

mschub at yahoo.com wrote:

> Big, big, big, big, gigantic difference. There's a big difference
> between soldiers killed in battle and non-combatants killed outside of
> that sphere.

I was referring principally to the 20-odd million Russian civilians killed
while Hitler's army advanced into Russia -- not, as I think you thought,
combatants.

> Debates on the righteousness of war aside, a soldier
> CANNOT be tried on any level for taking the life of an enemy during a
> battle. It would be no more fair to gather up a group of Nazi grunts
> and put them on trial for murder than it would be fair to gather up a
> group of revolutionary Minute Men and do the same thing.

Indeed. The winning side's Freedom Fighter is the losing side's Terrorist.

> We are like, WAY off topic here... I TA'd a class on the Nazi rise to
> power a while back. I wish you had been in that class, we could have
> had some very interesting arguments.
> -Mike

I know we are :) Don't worry, we Moderators are seriously considering a
means whereby we can continue these interesting though off-topic
discussions. 

--John

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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