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[PanH]

But whatever the Allies knew, US Holocaust historian David Wyman has questioned whether they could have done more to stop the mass murder. Leaders have often been accused of failing to respond quickly enough to the news. Some historians such as Wyman argue that moves like bombing the gas chambers of Auschwitz would have lessened the number of deaths, but others say it would have had no effect on the Nazi genocide. Large-scale rescue operations were considered but it was not clear to policymakers how this could be achieved.

Germany, Italy and Japan were on the offensive and the UK on the defensive, France having been knocked out of the war and the USSR likewise on the defensive. I don't know what more you expect the UK could've done
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This. It's rather easy to say 'more could have been done'. The Allies (USSR) included, did what they could to win the war. There is no telling whether they could have efficiently helped or lessened the genocide. This is just wishful thinking, you can't expect a big rescue operation in the middle of the German Reich when the rest of the world was threatened.

As for one thing that could have been done, it's accepting the Jewish immigrants. Hundreds of thousands of them from Germany were not accepted in any of the western countries, knowing well that they were oppressed back home.

[martinuzz]

Guys could you please cool down your nationalisms a bit.

[Kot]

WILNO AND LWÓW RIGHTFUL POLISH CLAY

[sprinkled chariot]

WILNO AND LWÓW RIGHTFUL POLISH CLAY

You mean, Poland - part of Russia  ( just kidding)

[Kot]

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Git out vatnik reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Putin shill reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

[scriver]

Oh! Oh! I love this game! Can I play too?

Let's see... Where to begin... Okay, firstly the entire Baltics is obviously Swedish together with those "German" enclaves and Pommerania (fun fact: Vorpommern doesn't actually Nearer Pommerania, it's actually a mistranslation of the Swedish name "Vår-Pommern", "Our Pommerania! Don't believe the German propaganda). Finland and Norway, obviously, is Swedish as well. Russia was founded by Swedish settlers, so it's ours. So was Ukraine! Our Rutabagas will cover the Donau Plains! Now, the Danish kings who conquered England was actually of Swedish lineage too, so England is Swengland, and since the swenvasion of England is the basis for the UK, all of it is Swedish also. Only tru facts here people.

The Burgundians where from Bornholm, so Burgundy is Swedish. The langobards/lombards where from Scania, so Italy is Swedish. The Goths were originally Geats, so Crimea-and-surroundings is Swedish, together with Spain and Bulgaria. The last Roman emperor was a Goth, so the entire Roman Empire at it's biggest is obviously also Swedish.

...I feel as if I'm forgetting something, but I'll stop here. Are we feeling silly yet?

Try a ten-foot pole.

Best pun though.

[Kot]

Whole Russia is ours, we conquered it. Germany was Prussia and Prussians were Polish vassals. Sweden is Polish because our king was also a king of Sweden, we also lay claim to any clay claimed by Sweden. France is ours due to the same reason. America wouldnt exist if not for us. Also, there's a saying that any clay your country soldier steps on is your rightful clay, so basically nearly the whole world applies.
Also, Ukraine (Ukrop go home), Lithuania, Belarus and so on are made-up states that should be part of Polish Commonwealth. Brits betrayed us so we may as well conquer them as well.

[scriver]

Sweden is Polish because our king was also a king of Sweden

Oh right! I knew I had forgot stuff. Poland is Swedish because it was at one time ruled by a Swede and a Swedish dynasty. In fact, Poland doesn't actually mean Land of the Poles, which one might think, but it's actually Swedish for "På Land", meaning "On land", which is where Poland is located.

[Kot]

No, Sweden is Polish because at one time King of Poland was also a King of Sweden but he got dethroned so Swedes can no longer have any claims on Poland while Poles can have claims on Sweden.
Sorry Swedes, you got rid of him by yourself and due to that forefited all your claims to Poland, which is precisely what we will conquer you for. You were supposed to be Polish clay.

[smjjames]

Being a part of the HRE =/= Germany
Bohemia itself was a part of the HRE, so were the low countries and northern Italy

Like I said, silly American.

[DJ]

Milosevic famously said that any land where Serb bones have been buried is Serbian clay, and they've got an extensive diaspora.

[Silverthrone]

No, Sweden is Polish because at one time King of Poland was also a King of Sweden but he got dethroned so Swedes can no longer have any claims on Poland while Poles can have claims on Sweden.
Sorry Swedes, you got rid of him by yourself and due to that forefited all your claims to Poland, which is precisely what we will conquer you for. You were supposed to be Polish clay.

Why, Sir! Never! He forfeited his rightful claim when he tried to remove lutherans from premises, against the conditions he had been given when he took the throne. Further, the matter must be considered as thoroughly and decidedly settled at Stångebro, the old fashioned way. Supposed clay and claims must be considered void after cannon and sword has had their say, for just how would the world be like if it didn't? It would be a strange and unnatural world, Sir, unnatural! _Smashing! However, master Sigismund must have his due of recognition for standing up to his claim, and doing his damndest to take it. He lost, but he could have won. Such is the hazard, and the only bad king is the one that did not play the die he was given. I propose a toast! To the king who tried!
The only true claim is the clay on which you stand after the cannon has gone silent.

Being a part of the HRE =/= Germany
Bohemia itself was a part of the HRE, so were the low countries and northern Italy

Like I said, silly American.

Europe is a strange, strange place. Well, so are a lot of places, but 'never before in the field of human clay exchange, has so many little bits been horriphically bled over by so many for so long.'

[Sheb]

That's dumb. Clovis was Belgian, so France,  Germany and all are Belgians. The UK should still be French (so Belgian) via the Norman conquest,  so the US is rightful Belgian soil. The Poles are just caretaker of the Belgian lebensraum,  and the Swedes can go build Ikea furniture on the moon or something.

[Silverthrone]

The moon, a fortress of flat-pack furniture, family cars, guns and forced neutering. Delaware, Africa and the Carribean didn't work out, at length. The moon seems like a wiser investment, all things considered.

Of course, the Americans are the ones that got there first with the flag, but that is nothing some stubborness can't remedy. _{Avlägsna burgare från lokalerna!!} *accordion*

[Kot]

I would like to mention that Poles were the first on the moon obviously. This, of course, wasn't so simple since Poland can't into space but apparently can into moon, but due to severe involvement of hellish powers and such. In any case, Twardowski was first and you can suck our ten-feet pole.

The only true claim is the clay on which you stand after the cannon has gone silent.

The cannon never went silent, we were just... reloading... for a short while. And you went away.
So we clearly won by walkover.