• Jax@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Why would they bother with death camps? That implies they give a shit enough to keep it a secret.

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      9 months ago

      What about a large institution that large numbers of people are ferried to before being slaughtered seems secretive to you?

      It’s not as though there’s a number of historical examples of exactly this kind of thing, right?

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        9 months ago

        I mean, there were a shitload of Germans that stated they didn’t know what was happening. Seems like they did a decent job of keeping it a secret from them.

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          9 months ago

          Yeah - the SS were kicking in my neighbours’ doors and violently hauling them away, never to be seen again as they spout genocidal rhetoric… I’m sure they just took them to a farm upstate where they can run and play all day. Also, your family dog is still alive at 27 - he went to live with them too.

          Any plausible deniability faded pretty quickly on that one given the overt rhetoric and actions of those involved. Gellately talks about this reasonably extensively.

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              9 months ago

              This is flirting with holocaust denial.

              Do you think the millions of people killed in the death camps just thought “Hey, seems like time for a change - I’ll leave my home, often with just the clothes on my back, and cram myself into a train to the east - it’ll be great!”

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                9 months ago

                Huh?? My point is that most of the horrible shit that happened in death camps was outside Germany in the places they annexed.

                What a weird assumption to make, that I’m suggesting the holocaust didn’t happen because I’m asking you specifics. You throw your anecdote out then suggest that it refutes what’s been documented.