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Originally Posted by Heibges
Eisenhauer, I believe, was responsible for nearly 1 million German's starving to death in the Winter of 1945/1946.
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Where did you get that from? You could also say he was responsible for 60 million Germans surviving that winter by supplying them with food and CARE parcels. I think thats really not fair, because the country was a mess, and the US delivered lots of food, saying anything else would be ungrateful.
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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
Slavery is evil. Those who practice and support it, are evil. IMO, it's that simple and direct.
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Of course, but thats not the question. Doing justice to historic decisions is never simple and direct. Otherwise the USA was evil until 1865, because it was a slave country. Initally Lincoln freed only the slaves in the Confederate states,
not the ones in the northern and border states, so doesnt that make him not only evil (because he didnt abolish slavery everywhere when he could and should have), but also a hippocrit and an oppertunist? I am not saying that btw, we just shouldn't demonize the South nor the German population as it was by the post war propaganda.
The South would have abolished slavery sooner or later, they might even have done it during the war had it lasted longer. But they didnt realize how weak their position was on that issue, and by that delivered the North the (post war) casus belli on a silver plate. In reality, the Civil War was a last measure in order to prevent the Union from falling apart when the individual states developed national identity, very much like in Europe several centuries earlier.