I believe what’s going on here is that I pointed out a clanger of a logical fallacy our friend made the other day, (Reductio ad absurdum) and he’s latched onto the phrase “logical fallacy” without actually understanding what it means.
It goes along with his “no, YOU’RE the Hitler” methodology.
As Viktor Brack, head of Hitler’s Chancellery and a supporter of Nazi research into sterilization by radiation, reported to SS leader Heinrich Himmler in 1942, “Among 10 millions of Jews in Europe there are … millions … who are fit enough to work. These should be specially selected and preserved. This can, however, only be done if … they are rendered incapable to propagate.”
But they found mass sterilization on the scale they preferred was too difficult. They experimented with drugs and X-rays but found that many didn’t survive the treatments, and they were killing people anyway. It’s not that they didn’t want to sterilize the Jewish people, it just ended up not being feasible.
There was extensive German research into mass sterilization in the 1940s, specifically Himmler had a desire to at one point keep many of their slave laborers they were using around for the medium term. But they didn’t want them propagating, so it was seen as necessary to find a way to mass sterilize them. Jewish slave laborers were intended to be sterilized by these mass sterilization programs as well. The medical sterilizations the Germans performed against their people for “racial hygiene” used vasectomies and tubal ligations, which were considered to be too time consuming and expensive for mass use, for women especially that procedure regularly requires a few weeks recovery time in that era.
But the realities of the war overtook the Germans plans in this regard, and their mass sterilization stuff never got out of the experimental stage.
Remember when the posters did not mention that not all jews were sterilized? Pepperidge Farms remembers the cite was about 400,000.
And indeed, not all of them where jews. Martin is just complaining a lot. The point was that a number of Jews were also subject to forced sterilization. Before and after the final solution was implemented. The other point that was missed is that it was a bigger proportion of native Americans that had forced sterilizations. The end result was that many tribes were likely to face extintion if that had not ended.
Ah, I see what you mean–I agree what you said is correct there. My original comment was intended better to delineate that the German eugenics program was much more about keeping the German bloodline clean than it was about targeting Jews, which is fairly supported by the historical record. I would argue that the later mass sterilization experiments that the Germans hoped to pursue would have constituted an entirely different thing had it been implemented (and the German eugenics program by then was basically ended as they had started just sending the German “unworthy of life” to the camps as they considered that better than just sterilizing them.) But yes the way I phrased my original comment was not factually correct.
I think rather the evidence would support that the Nazis made the decision that because of how the war was going it was better to ramp up the mass murder versus work more on sterilization. There’s decent evidence at least part of the ramp up in killing of Jews was a desire to get as many dead as possible because it was obvious the Germans were losing territory–they even arguably hurt their own war effort in the last year of the war by diverting resources to keeping the death camps running.
Oh, I’ve already said multiple times that you never actually denied genocide against indigenous people. You just figured that we should finish the job properly and destroy their culture once and for all.
Still no link to me calling you a Nazi, @Martin_Hyde ? What a lying little baby - whining about favouritism in ATMB, but too craven to back anything up.
I mean this isn’t a genuine question as you know exactly where this occurred. But for anyone else:
Casually linking someone’s statements, barring any logical or factual justification, to Nazi death squads, is reprehensible behavior. Which is not uncommon for you. I’m not a psychologist but you have lots of issues. I’m not sure if it’s anger because you’re sad that you live in one of the worst countries on earth and that gives you an inferiority complex when talking with Americans. It may be that you, yourself are deeply racist. I’m not honestly sure. I imagine you feel a lot of anger about the period of white rule in your country, and while you hide it on these boards you may have festering hatred in your heart for white people. I really don’t know. But I know something isn’t right, when you can’t discuss things rationally or intelligently, which is a pervasive problem of yours, obviously a defect in the mind is to blame. When you allege essentially everyone you disagree with is racist, it seems likely to me that you are compensating for deeply held racist views of your own that you probably feel a lot of shame over.