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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (192018)	1/7/2007 6:10:50 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794042

Nadine are you serious that the railways issued one-way passenger tickets? And people bought them? Wow! The promise of a holiday out east must have been tempting. I doubt that anyone bought the tickets. I would have told them I couldn't afford one, though I'd love to have bought one. I suspect such ticket counts were not very precise. The people in charge of "selling" the tickets would want to show what a great job they were doing and perhaps boost the body count like the Vietcong body counts were ridiculously large. That might get them a big bonus. I don't think we should trust those numbers too much. I suspect the best numbers would come from births, deaths and marriages records, which in the 20th century were pretty good in places like Germany, France, England. Perhaps those were destroyed during the war, but probably not. Anyway, it's all academic and historical. It's pretty obvious that the actual count was vast. Re Saddam's bulk killings: < it does no good if normally bright people deny the evidence.> Which evidence did somebody deny? Adolf's programme was qualitatively worse than Saddam's in that the Germans were doing a eugenics and genocidal effort as well as total repression of the conquered and large scale territorial annexation. Saddam wasn't really trying to kill all the Kurds. He just wanted them totally subjugated and working for him. I doubt that he was even particularly against Jews from an ideological and racial point of view, though he was keen on keeping the carnage going against Israel. Meanwhile, Fatah and Hamas show their charms to each other in Palestinian internecine warfare. I admit to the bigotry of low expectations. Mqurice