• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    In highschool my German teacher’s first memory was her train that was headed to a concentration camp being attacked and they were able to run into the woods.

    Her family had belonged to one of the Christian churches that originally didn’t say anything but eventually spoke up against the Holocaust.

    So the congregation was either killed or in the process of getting sent to the same camps they didn’t speak out against first.

    It’s not enough to eventually do the right thing, you have to stand up for shit immediately, hesitate and it’s too late. If everyone stands up at once, it’s enough people.

    People forget that less than half the people killed in the Holocaust was because they were Jewish.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims

    There were 6 million for being Jewish. And 11 million more for other reasons, which is really close to 1/3 than half.

    Because when it started with Jewish people, not everybody stood up at once.