RichardQ Loc: Colorado

Sandra, the Nazi government was top-heavy, with Adolph Hitler totally in charge, imposing his raging hatred of Jews and Gypsies.He never personally ordered the gassing of millions -- he tended to vaguely call for a Final Solution without defining it. That was conceived and ordered by the top SS officer, Heinrich Himmler, and implemented by an SS officer, Reinhardt Heydrich, whose plan was recorded in the transcribed notes taken by a secretary during a day-long meeting with bankers and industrialists in Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin. Heydrich never went on trial for his crimes because he was assassinated by Czech partisans during the War. Then Hitler got involved personally, ordering retribution with the slaughter of the entire population of a town, Lidice. Himmler never went to trial -- he fled the Russians at war's end, was captured by the British and swallowed poison. Hitler never went to trial because he committed suicide in his Berlin bunker. Before he died, Hitler condemned the entire German people because they -- men, women and children -- were unwilling to fight to the death in a glorious Wagnerian national suicide. Unfortunately, many of the Germans responsible for operating the Death Camps escaped the punishments they richly deserved, even though they went to trial. The records show that hundreds were sentenced to death, which was reduced to life imprisonment, which eventually was reduced to about seven years. The ordinary Germans were condemned with "mass guilt" by certain American leaders, who were challenged by others. Eventually, the "mass guilt" stigma was officially lifted about three years after the Nazi surrender. Sorry if this is more than you wanted to know.

EnglishBrenda Loc: Kent, England

It is a shame the world hasn't learned how destructive wars are and so they continue. I particularly like your 3rd. image. It is good to think that even in those situations people still took time to feed pigeons. As I write this I am watching a large flock of pigeons on the lawn pecking at grain which I have put out for them.