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Originally posted by Muffin
Please remember that the "west" knew as early as 1940 what was happening in Germany.
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Before 1940, there wasn't much the West could complain about. Yes, the Jews were forbidden from becoming lawyers, bankers and journalists under the Nurenberg Laws enacted in 1935. Also, mentally ill people were sterilized and sent to federal institutions. Those who were openly homosexual suffered a similar fate.
In 1939, when Hitler annexed an ethnically German part of Poland which had been part of Germany before WW1, France and Britain declared war on Germany. After France had been defeated and the Brits were in serious trouble, Hitler made 2 peace offers to Churchill, both of which were turned down by the bumbling fool firgurehead that ruled Britain.
Meanwhile, Stalin had already slaughtered tens of millions of his own people during peace time. The intellectuals and the bourgeoisie, then the peasants and Christians (basically everyone who dared to openly practice religion). When the Soviets invaded Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine, slaughtering millions, the West turned a blind eye.
After all, Hitler was the bad guy and Uncle Joe Stalin was a noble ally...