# Questions about Hitler and Nazi Germany's attempted extermination of Europe's Jews **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 18, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-hitler-and-nazi-germanys-attempted-extermination-of-europes-jews/669168 "2013-09-18T19:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 352
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-hitler-and-nazi-germanys-attempted-extermination-of-europes-jews/669168/352 "2013-09-21T06:47:36Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Now, on to your argument, you are obviously using the Holocaust Denier argument that most of the deaths in the extermination and concentration camps were due to disease. Answer me this, then: if a government imprisons its own citizens, men and women who have done nothing wrong, committed no crimes, harmed no one, and then stuffs those unjustly imprisoned people into overcrowded, unsanitary conditions without proper medical oversight, such that 10’s of thousands of human beings die of disease… how is that not murder on the part of the ruling regime? > > (We can debate numbers later, let’s just agree that we’re discussing some sort of moral framework and not just an apologia for anti-Semitism) Still no answer to that, eh? I see a few other people have posted the question… I wonder why Gack hasn’t given a decent answer to that. Truly, it’s a mystery for the ages. And as long as I’m at it, another bit that Gack will ignore and an, ahem, ‘reliable Jewish witness’: > [@What qualifies someone as a Holocaust survivor?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-someone-as-a-holocaust-survivor/560605/50): > > my maternal grandmother, who saw the Nazis break into her home and drag her father and brother out into the night, came home several days later to find that her mother had hanged herself, and then managed to escape (eventually) to the United States But I’m sure that bitch, who devoted her life to the profession of nursing until the events of her childhood finally shattered her mind years later… that bitch was probably lying. Fucking cunt that she was. Fucking Jewish cunt, I should say. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-hitler-and-nazi-germanys-attempted-extermination-of-europes-jews/669168)._