It's ironic but if you'd taken a poll of which country was most likely to gas 6 million Jews right up until 1945 or so when we learnt about the Holocaust Russia and France would likely have been the top choices not Germany.
No country has any claim to clean hands frankly except maybe Denmark (the story of how Denmark almost as a country saved it's Jewish population from the Nazi's is incredible), Churchill made the decision to ship rice out of the Punjab in 1943 when they were in the middle of a famine to feed the troops , that choice killed 2 to 3 million by starvation, Russia under Stalin did almost exactly the same thing to Ukraine in the '30's, again killing millions.
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