Alexander,
We are not talking about wartime events. Kristallnacht was not a by-product of war. The definition of the Holocaust includes the imprisonment of innocent people as early as 1933:
Concentration Camps, 1933-1939.
It is too easy for us now to start to develop intellectual arguments about who was right and who was wrong in WWII. There have indeed been some unfortunate results: total-war victors tend to be arrogant. Soldiers who saw what the soldiers entering Germany in 1945 saw had trouble being humane. But that, again, is not a discussion of the Holocaust. That is WWII. The Holocaust, which began earlier, would have been worse if not for WWII.
Thank you for illustrating the danger of forgetting.
(I wrote and deleted much more. It is sometimes hard to maintain focus, but there is still work to be done.)
--lemit
