Take a look sometime at what the Nazis did to Warsaw in 1944. Think the blockade of Gaza is bad? . . . That you would defend such simian behavior is disgusting.
This is the sort of thing which all deniers in some way defend, wish away, minimize, or rationalize.
Sticking with the simian behavior of the Germans in Warsaw, 1944, and the chimp perspective on the Third Reich, when the Nazis suppressed the Warsaw Uprising--and, yes, there was a war going on, but so too was there in Vietnam when My Lai occurred--they deployed Waffen-SS to deal out especially brutal retaliation. Units like Dirlewanger's and those from RONA, made up of outlaws who bordered on the sadistic, were sent in to action with the expected results. In the districts of Wolo and Ochota, for example, 40,000 Polish civilians were murdered and a wave of rapes accompanied the slaughter. On August 2, in Marymont, where insurgents had not taken the district, RONA and SS struck with grenade attacks on bomb shelters and waves of shootings of civilians trying to flee the fighting. The general battle plan made widespread civilian casualties inevitable--to take one example, German tanks made their way into battle zones with Polish civilians chained to them.
In the end, the fighting claimed the lives of 42,000 Polish rebels--and perhaps 3 to 4 times as many civilians--about a quarter of the city's population. When the Germans prevailed, they removed as many as 350,000 Poles from the city into camps, sending 10s of 1000s to Germany for slave labor. By January 1945 the Germans had destroyed approximately 80% of Warsaw, reducing its buildings to rubble and rendering the city virtually uninhabitable. This is not "normal" warfare but an attempt to destroy the enemy, conceived as the entire population, and obliterate the foundation of its life.
And, of course, low as the Poles figured in the Nazi demonology, they were not as low as the Jews. Not that it "proves" a thing, but I would ask deniers first to wrestle with the sorts of Nazi war crimes mentioned by Wroclaw and second to ponder whether, as Clayton Moore intones in a kind of staccato display of ignorance, the Germans were really incapable of atrocities on massive scale and with large-scale lethal results. It is, that is to say, a relevant question, if the Germans believed it appropriate to savage the Poles of Warsaw as they did in late 1944, to take this one example, what does one think they would have in store for the Jews, whom they defined as the world's greatest enemy, wire pullers behind the Allies, exploiter of Europe, and cause of the world war?
