• ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    My instinct is that they just didn’t want Oberfuhrer Hans Warkrimes getting executed because his great great aunt on his father’s side was Romanian or something

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      That was exactly it. So many of the high command had Jewish relatives that by that rule they’d all be in a camp, so they settled on allowing one Jewish grandparent at most to be considered Aryan.