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originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: crazyewok
It would of required 10,000 of men...
I think your other points are valid but I was under the impression all the camps were built with slave labor.
The Holocaust, while taking a massive toll on Germany's humanity, didn't cost Germany much in terms of money. The camps and whatnot were funded from all of the wealth the Nazis stole from the same people they imprisoned in the camps.
originally posted by: Hefficide
a reply to: crazyewok
The United States has the largest prison system in the world and incarcerates more of our population per capita than any other nation on Earth and, for that matter, in history.
We also have one of the largest proportionate ratio of police to citizens as well.
Neither of which stops us from also having a military larger than the next five nations combined.
Though it is true that toward the end of the war Germany was low on resources and manpower - but this can be attributed to the effects of constant carpet bombing from the allies and troop desertion as it can to any other factor.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
The defeat was going to happen either way, but I would think any resources not going directly to the war effort were wasted.
Hitler made many bad decisions that made the war more difficult than it should have been.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
The camps and whatnot were funded from all of the wealth the Nazis stole from the same people they imprisoned in the camps.