A Call for Foreign Intervention

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shrieks. People crowded around to touch an American, to touch the jeep, to kiss our arms—perhaps just to make sure that it was true. The people who couldn’t walk crawled out towards our jeep. Those who couldn’t even crawl propped themselves up on an elbow, and somehow, through all their pain and suffering, revealed through their eyes the gratitude, the joy they felt at the arrival of Americans.”—Captain J.D. Pletcher, 71st Division Headquarters
This is an all to familiar image of the Nazi atrocities upon the Jewish people of the Holocaust, and the willingness and yearning of the Jews for care to be shown, for their savior to come, and for the day to come when Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich of Nazi Germany would become but only a page in a textbook.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party had risen to power in Germany, in the 1930’s. They dreamed of their own perfect society where the Aryan race was the victor among the world. The Jewish people were seen as a threat to that society of perfection, for the Nazis viewed civilisation as a battle of races, in which one would have to transcend the rest.
The Nazis could not have the Jews or anyone else be that race, which is why they had to suppress the non-Aryans within their realm. This is also why they wanted to take control of all the Aryan nations, and why their suppression did not stop at the Jews, it also included gypsies, Poles, people with physical or mental disabilities, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, the dissenting clergy, communists, socialists, and asocials.
So little by little the Jews among the Third Reich were subjugated. First they were merely mocked, then their ...