human rights

Its more to do with the fact that ppl ignore them. They have been clamouring on about the human rights abuse in Iraq since 1991, but we have only been hearing about it recently because of the war.

I just cannot let this sit like it is. Hitler had about as much support from the Germans - his own people as Saddam had. Hitler was supported by the Nazi regime (seperate category from the Germans in general) and any other "support" he got from the general public was through threats to their and their families lifes. Very similar to Saddam. He too had his party and got the general population to "keep quiet" by threatening their lifes. NOT ALL GERMANS SUPPORTED HITLER!!!!!!!!!

Not only a majority of Germans supported him (he had an extremely strong army) - but much of 'old Europe' did (the true old Europe - not Mr Rumsfelds old Europe).

Don't forget that Hitler was voted into power.

jails' meaning is not the examplary punishment but the reform of the criminals and the prevention of the crime (in some cases). also you seem to be forgetting the human factor and the reasons which may lead someone to commit a crime. and in a society that we want to believe that we have secured the human rights we can't have jails where people are being raped, abused, are victims of the drug dealers and also we should mention the wretched condition of the cells. if one of you accidentally hits, for example, a man with his car and he ends up in jail, after his discharge there is a good chance of having become a criminal. so in prisons there are also people who are not real criminals or the accusation was unfair and these people just because of the prisons' conditions finally become criminals. but besides that let's not forget that the criminals are also human beings so they are protected by the human rights that are constantly violated in prisons. so even if there was one chance that a criminal could be reformed now there is none.

Yes, he was voted into power, but that was before he started war and we all know why he was voted into power. NOT because he wanted to take over the world and kill all jews.

NO, the majority of Germans DID NOT support Hitler in any other way than to save their own lifes. FACT! Though, it sounds so much better the other way round. I am talking not talking about the time leading up to the war, but the time when he started carting jews off to the concentration camps and killed all civilians in his way.

you can't argue with history spunkywho and misguided as they may have been, the german people still took in and gave Hitler his power in the 1st place.

in a democracy you can't decide to do a bit of ethnic cleansing unless ur people agree with it and im pretty sure the people spitting on jews ont he street and terroising the gypsies etc... werent doing so out of fear.

A strong army is not an indication of support. These kids were drafted, there was not much of an option to go or not. If you didn't go, your mother was dragged off. I don't call that support.

How is that a fact??

What are you basing this on?? Do you think he would have been such a threat without the support of his people??

A lot of ppl in Europe where supportive of national socialism (i.e. Naziism) at the time.

but you are the ones arguing with history. once Hitler was in full force, there was NO democracy. My parents grew up under the Hitler regime, I have an endless number of stories to go by and I KNOW the majority did not support ethnic cleansing, or did even know about it, until the White Rose started going public with it and were killed because of it.

There is no misguidance when someone kills your siblings, just for you to keep your mouth shut. That is not support and has nothing to do with misguidance. Now, for the nazi regime, I don't even want to go there - they were just evil.

As far as terrorizing jews and gypsies, that was done by the nazis - not the general germans. True, the nazies had a huge followship, but not everyone was a nazi. You want to go off about nazis, I am all with you, but you cannot lump nazis and germans in one pot.