Not answering my question, why were the Jews killed during WW2? What drove Germany to do something so atrocious?
Sure, but I hope that you're not implying that land was rightfully theirs. It's a little different when you are repelling an ethnicity from newly conquered land. Also note how I said "by means of genocide".
The numbers are incomparable, and there seems to be a distinct lack civilians, including women andchildren in POW camps. I've already said that the allies aren't 100% innocent. You're failing to make your case that this isn't a faulty comparison.
Well, after the Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW1, when Germany lost Danzig and the Polish corridor, the international community was fine with letting Wiemar Germany keep East Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia. These places were just as legitimately German in the eyes of the international community as Bavaria was. Millions of Germans lived there, and Germans had settled the area during the 12th century. East Prussia, Silesia and East Pommerania were inhabited mostly by Germans with some small Slavic minorities on their fringes, which is why these areas hadn't been given away to Poland after WW1. Were they legitimately German? The international community seemed to think so, the people living there seemed to think so and the pre-Nazi German regime seemed to think so. I'm not even talking about the places Germany tried to annex during their WW2 landgrab, I'm talking about places which were a part of Wiemar Germany before the Nazi regime and which had been inhabited primarily by Germans for more than 700 years, longer than Europeans have been in America.
When the Soviets entered these places during the final stages of WW2 they killed tens of thousands of men, women and children (disproportionately the elderly, women and children, as these people were not on the front lines). Sources on Wikipedia (hardly a pro-Nazi source) will tell you that Soviet soldiers killed tens of thousands of civilians, raped women and girls and left them to die and were generally pretty nasty to the civilians living there. A study published by the German government in 1989, estimated the death toll among German civilians in eastern Europe to be 635,000. With 270,000 dying as the result of Soviet war crimes, 160,000 deaths occurring at the hands of various nationalities during the expulsion of Germans after World War II and 205,000 deaths in the forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union. These figures do not include at least 125,000 civilian deaths in the Battle of Berlin.
People were actually put in gulags for criticising this on the charges of "bourgeois humanism" and "sympathising with the enemy". You know that Solzhenitsyn guy Jordan Peterson (who is a clown, not promoting JP here) likes to go on about? He got put in a labour camp for suggesting that Stalin shouldn't have allowed the Red Army to rape and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians.
There is a book called
Other Losses by Canadian writer and history graduate James Bacque which argues that the death of around a million German POWs from hunger and exposure in intermittent camps shortly after WW2 was intentional, and that Eisenhower was in on it. The book has been criticised, but the criticism has only revolved around how intentional the deaths really were and a significant body of academics came out in support of Bacque. I guess that's not as bad though because they weren't women and children though, right buddy? They didn't have vaginas and they weren't little kids. It's estimated that Western allied troops committed tens of thousands of rapes on the locals in Europe as well. Not as bad as the Soviets, but that's a million POWs (many of whom were conscripted into the Wehrmacht instead of the NSDAP-affiliated SS, and were thus dying for their country unwillingly and starved to death horribly in a camp because of it).
So yes, I think the USSR and to a lesser extent the USA doing Genghis Khan-tier bullshit on the people of Germany, including civilians and many men who probably didn't want to be conscripted in the first place is absolutely comparable to Germany's wartime atrocities against an ethnic group. Raping women and children, shooting them and leaving them to die in the hundreds of thousands is pretty comparable to sending a few million people to camps, killing them with gas and shooting them in the back of the head before pushing them into ditches.
Again though, seeing as you REALLY want to avoid the question, why would Germany do such a horrible thing to the Jews?
