No one denies (well almost no one...) denies those camps existed. But "profitable?" There are some curious gaps in the narrative. For example, consider this. Using evil logic, it makes sense to work your prisoners for what labor you can wrest from them, before killing them. Late in the war, the Nazis were diverting resources towards the …
No one denies (well almost no one...) denies those camps existed. But "profitable?" There are some curious gaps in the narrative. For example, consider this. Using evil logic, it makes sense to work your prisoners for what labor you can wrest from them, before killing them. Late in the war, the Nazis were diverting resources towards the deportation and prison programs when their own military was critically short of supplies and when civilians were freezing and starving. Does that make sense? Yes, it's well documented that in many of the camps the prisoners too were starving or dying of disease. But that begs the question: Why did the Nazis not kill of those prisoners that were long past their sell by date? Why devote critically short resources, to try and keep alive, however marginally, the very captives you intended to kill?
Seems like a lot of different motivations were at work there. Jews in extermination and work camps were subject to selections and experimentation.
The Nazi may have seen the proverbial writing on the wall with the war coming to and end and didn't want to be prosecuted for starving people in prisoner of war camps. Also the deeply ensconced almost religious ideology of cleansing the Aryan race. Dora, where V2 rockets were made, used slave labor. The Von Brauns, who were imported here under Project Paperclip, with the Vatican providing rat lines to get nazis out, worked at Dora. The Allies wouldn't bomb the train lines to extermination camps as they wanted Hitler's armies' energies focused on killing jews. Complicated forces and psychologies. Probably the same now.
No one denies (well almost no one...) denies those camps existed. But "profitable?" There are some curious gaps in the narrative. For example, consider this. Using evil logic, it makes sense to work your prisoners for what labor you can wrest from them, before killing them. Late in the war, the Nazis were diverting resources towards the deportation and prison programs when their own military was critically short of supplies and when civilians were freezing and starving. Does that make sense? Yes, it's well documented that in many of the camps the prisoners too were starving or dying of disease. But that begs the question: Why did the Nazis not kill of those prisoners that were long past their sell by date? Why devote critically short resources, to try and keep alive, however marginally, the very captives you intended to kill?
It just doesn't make sense.
There were important chemical plants at Auschwitz.
Seems like a lot of different motivations were at work there. Jews in extermination and work camps were subject to selections and experimentation.
The Nazi may have seen the proverbial writing on the wall with the war coming to and end and didn't want to be prosecuted for starving people in prisoner of war camps. Also the deeply ensconced almost religious ideology of cleansing the Aryan race. Dora, where V2 rockets were made, used slave labor. The Von Brauns, who were imported here under Project Paperclip, with the Vatican providing rat lines to get nazis out, worked at Dora. The Allies wouldn't bomb the train lines to extermination camps as they wanted Hitler's armies' energies focused on killing jews. Complicated forces and psychologies. Probably the same now.