Someone commented that “we’re shooting past clean wehrmacht, past the recent innovation of clean SS and all the way straight to clean Hitler.”

[edit] OK, I’ll just say it - over 30k and counting. “You are like Hitler if you don’t want to genocide the Palestinians”.

  • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    The myth of the “secret holocaust” is a pernicious piece of propaganda. The idea that “if only we’d known, we’d have invaded earlier” is a lie(the us refused to accept Jewish refugees) and is used today to justify military intervention in conjunction with atrocity propaganda like the “beheaded babies” lie is being used now.

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      In 1942-43 Polish officer Jan Karski, send by the AK and Polish goverment in London (so by no means a commie), a witness of the holocaust went to the UK and USA with extensive report and met with hundreds of people - officials, celebrities, industrialists, bankers etc, everyone he could including Roosevelt, Hull, Churchill etc and he shown them the report about holocaust and asked for help.

      There was basically zero response, which means UK and US govts shushed the case.

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    The Holocaust was not remotely a secret to people in Nazi-occupied territory, that’s a massive historical revision. There was an attempt to erase evidence as they lost ground to prevent the Allied forces from learning about what they did, or at least the full extent, but any Pole or German with eyes who was able to walk the street during the day could have told you that people were being “done away with” systemically and sometimes just killed in the street.

    It’s frankly disgusting to pretend that the Holocaust was some kind of secret operation except for being draped in the thinnest forms of euphemism when it was described.

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    The nazis were actually better, for they knew to hide their genocide.

    Hamas, which is not committing a genocide, has the gall to not hide their genocide. Truly, unassailable.

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    [edit] OK, I’ll just say it - over 30k and counting. “You are like Hitler if you don’t want to genocide the Palestinians”.

    No, he is saying that makes you worse than Hitler actually.

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    Didn’t most Holocaust victims die in the ghettos and not the camps? Like I swear I legitimately heard this during Hillel events. It’s not really secretive if it’s in the middle of the city.

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      I’m having a whole lot of trouble finding specific numbers on that one. The only thing I know off my head is that Adolf Eichmann (Nazi scum who organized the holocaust) in Hannah Arendt’s book gave a number something like 4 million in the camps, 2 million through other murders. That total probably doesn’t included executed prisoners of war, who were around 5 million, and probably doesn’t include the (i think) 1.3 million Soviet Jews killed through invasion. A little over one million were killed at Auschwitz II–Birkenau alone by most accounts.

      You’re right that Nazis didn’t exactly hide their murders. The only thing you could say is they started doing it faster after around 1942, which is when the war started falling out of Germany’s favor. That’s when they started doing stuff like burning documents too. If I had to guess the Nazis were probably covering their tracks out of a belief they might get captured by Soviets and hanged

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        Unless Eichmann’s estimate is higher than the modern one, Jews killed in the USSR by the Nazis or their collaborators for being Jewish are counted as part of the Holocaust conventionally, and ~1 million is the common number for that toll.

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        If I had to guess the Nazis were probably covering their tracks out of a belief they might get captured by Soviets and hanged

        thinking they might get in trouble for the mass murder was not an unfounded concern

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      Most victims of the holocaust weren’t even Jewish but God fucking help you if you go around saying that out loud.