re: Remember how America treated the Jews on the St. Louis ?

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This may be harsh, but from reading the story wasn't this a boat full of people who bribed an official in Cuba for visas, but before they got there the gig was found out and they were denied entry? How is that the US's problem? Most of them found other countries to move to, some of which were subsequently invaded by Germany. Were we supposed to supply refuge to all of Europe?

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It's also important to add that the US had accepted around a hundred thousand jewish refugees in the few years around that time. Mass refugees are a serious problem in any situation. Many countries in Europe had also received refugees to the point of saturation (See Evian Conference). Add the refugee problem to the lack of knowledge of specific or certain danger in sending the ship back to Europe, and it's easier to understand, although not saying the decision was ultimately correct.

Also interesting is that the Dominican Republic offered to accept up to 100,000 refugees with land donated for settlements, but apparently only about 800 came.

The writing was very much on the wall. Sterilization, deportation, etc.

The stated goal of the nazi regime all along was to reincorporate some undesirables through reeducation; however the Jews held a separate designation from even the undesirables. They were to be purged from society because of their tainted blood (seriously, blood) Now imagine that, your government's stated goal is to rid you from society. They've subjected you to forced deportations, they've sterilized tens of thousands of your people and imprisoned in labor camps (and yeah they weren't specifically outfitted for extermination but they were concentration camps)

Everyone knew war was inevitable by this point. And once it started what the Jews would possibly face. Nobody imagined the scale and scope of the final solution. It is quite shocking and so well documented. Anyway, once the nazis invaded Poland, people knew what was up

What nobody could know was that the extermination of the Jews and proliferation of the master German race was the ends that the Nazis sought. World domination.

There were concentration camps, but no they weren't specifically outfitted for extermination


Regardless what an awful comparison and why does everyone feel the need to trivialize the holocaust (especially liberals)

You never hear anyone trivializing the Rwandan genocide

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World domination

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Stop getting your history from entertainment programming.

So where would the nazis have stopped?

They invaded the Soviet Union, they wanted the Uk.

At one point their reach went from the outskirts of Moscow to coastal France.

Yeah, you said nothing

The nazis had plans for invading the UK after they took France and it didn't materialize because they lacked the requisite resources to accomplish it at the time.

Are you really comparing Jews to these people?

You dismissed specifically the idea that they planned to invade the UK

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If you think WWII occurred because the Nazis were pursuing world domination,

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No, and global dominance through both direct occupation and political influence was essential to creating the 3rd reich and given the level of resources dedicated to the Final Solution (a goal of no political or economic value) it kind of bolsters what I'm getting at. Obviously it goes beyond all of that and there are some obvious political and economic factors leading to World War II but I never said global domination or better put "world control" was their motive though it was necessary to achieve their goals