Local Man thinks women can only be pretty or smart; gets roasted alive by smart, pretty woman.
SonderKommandos were forced laborers who would burn the bodies in concentration camps if anyone is curious. Most of them also died because the Nazis didnt want people alive who could tell the world the truth about what was happening. The Grey Zone refers to the moral conflict of being complicit in killing others but also being threatened with death yourself if you didnt comply. It comes from scientist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi.
Honestly as much as I love the enthusiasm people are showing to beat up Nazis I can’t help but be irked at how people are perpetuating the historical fiction that America was the most vehement opponent of Nazism.
America only opposed the Nazis because Britain did. Britain only did because they viewed national boundaries as of divine import. Churchill liked Hitler until he started invading other countries. Pro-Nazi rallies were held across this nation, including at Madison Square Garden. Hitler directly praised American efforts at state-sponsored eugenics and treatment of Native Americans.
Stop playing Captain America. It really is a fluke of history that the United States sided against the Nazis. This election is not in defiance of American political culture, it is a fulfillment of it.
Same goes for Canada, who had the highest percapita NSDAP membership after Germany until we were literally at war with them and it was illegal.
See, I didn’t know that either.
Erasing history is how you ensure its repetition.
The United States turned back a boat full of Jews fleeing Europe. Many of the people on the boat ended up in camps and died. FDR refused to bomb the train tracks to Auschewitz. The United States likes to pretend that they were the good guys in that war and they l were fighting the Nazis because they valued the dignity of the lives the Nazis were murdering but that’s just not true. Saving the Jews and Rromanis was just a PR stunt.
The ship in question was the MS St. Louis. America by that point had a good understanding of what Jews in Germany were facing, but FDR refused entrance at the behest of his Secretary of State, Cordell Hull.
Hull and many of his pals, including future Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother, future CIA founder, Allen Dulles, absolutely knew what was happening to Jews in Nazi held territories and went out of their way to downplay, and in some cases cover up, those facts.
After the war the Dulles brothers, at the behest of their former clients on Wall Street, would go out of their way to prop up German businessmen and German businesses, often while covering up known crimes committed by those men and their companies during the war.
Some, like Volkswagen, survived relatively intact.
But one company had to undergo some fancy name changes post war. See IG Farben was, pre-WW2, the largest chemical and pharmaceutical company in the world. But being a German company it collaborated heavily off the new regime and gleefully took advantage of the opportunities the Nazis provided, such as a free workforce and test subjects.
Post war it was clear IG Farben had to be dismantled. Its board members were all put on trial by the West and most had their sentences commuted. Many spending little, if any time, in anything resembling a jail. They also weren’t forbidden from taking new jobs or forming new companies.
So the Dulles brothers set aside the considerable assets of much of IG Farben and by 48 their Nazi friends were off the hook and ready to start a new company.
You’ve probably heard of it. Especially if you take aspirin.
The victims/survivors of IG Farben include Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi.
So I’m actually reading a memoir by Primo Levi at the moment and he recounted being in a meeting once with some businesspeople from Bayer shortly after the war (he was working for a chemical company in Italy at the time). At the end of the meeting he meant to say “time for us to go” in German but ended up accidentally phrasing the word “go” in the vulgar, crude way that he learned in the camps which is more like saying “go to hell” or “go the fuck away.” The Bayer functionaries thought it was rather funny and asked him where he learned German. He replied “Auschwitz.” No more laughing after that.
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