Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Face value

November 25, 2015


The generally accepted number for how many Jews were murdered in WW II is 6 million.  

If all of those Jews had gotten refuge in other countries instead of being left to die, millions of able-bodied Jewish men could have been soldiers against Hitler. 

Is there someone who thinks that those men would have refused to fight for the Allies, or that the women would have refused to be military nurses or to work in factories to help the war effort?  





That's the Web address of a page at the website of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana.  That page is called "By The Numbers:  World-Wide Deaths."  The number that it gives for U.S. military deaths during WW II is 416,800.  The number that it gives for worldwide battle deaths is 15,000,000.



Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, November 25, 2015 @ 3:15 p.m./additions @ 3:43 p.m.