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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (9910)	9/20/2001 9:50:17 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 74559

The odd thing, to me, was how the special treatment varied. Hitler valued German "blood," so some people with both German and Jewish ancestry were not killed if they had enough German blood and were not practicing Jews, or had married a German. There were special committees who reviewed people's genealogy in Germany, to determine how German they were, and if they had enough German blood, then they were not killed, like the half Jewish professor who married a German, that David talked about. There were many men like that in Germany. Hitler despised Slavs, so all Jews in Slavic countries were killed, and Slavs with any fraction of Jewish blood would be killed. That's why the Polish Jews were wiped out - their blood was twice bad. They were annihilated first - the Final Solution started in Poland. I don't think the particulars of how the Jews in Russia and how the Communists in Russia were treated have entered the mainstream in the West even yet. As soon as the war was over, the Iron Curtain came down, and the Russians were our enemy again, and the West Germans were our friends, and so these things became taboo. The Western European Jews did not want to keep quiet about what happened, but people on the other side of the Wall could not speak. The Communists didn't really want to talk about the Jews and nobody in the West wanted to talk about the Communists. Hitler hated Slavs and Russians - millions were killed, men, women and children. But I don't think the murder of non-Jewish non-Communist Russians was as ruthless as the way the Jews were killed, e.g., a Stalin shot in the back of the head for everyone of every age, from old grandmothers in their beds to newborn infants. The Russians were just starved to death, although the officers and commissars were shot. Permanent death camps, like Auschwitz, were a late addition to the Final Solution. Before they were built, there were roving troops who just shot people in the back of the head, and then roving death camps which gassed people in the back of trucks using the truck exhaust. Most of the camps we know about, like Dachau, were actually work camps. People survived work camps. Very few survived death camps.