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> the teacher explained us that the system used for the Shoah minimized the number of bloodthirsty lunatics needed I wonder about that. In Eastern Europe, they
by hackuser 10y ago
> the teacher explained us that the system used for the Shoah minimized the number of bloodthirsty lunatics needed
I wonder about that. In Eastern Europe, they encouraged local angry mobs to kill their fellow Jewish citizens. In the concentration camps, it was an industrial process, requiring many employees to operate, guard, etc.
- throwaway1892 10y agoMost of the guards, the support personnel, all the people necessary to bring the Jews (and others) to the camps (capturing, transporting) did not have to kill anyone, but they were part of a system that is responsible for the death of +/- 7 million people. You just needed the killers to do the actual killing, but the industrialized process lowered the required number of people. As for “local angry mobs to kill their fellow Jewish citizens”, do you have any source for it? I think it’s the first time I hear about it. Even so it would have been a limited number of people, compared to the number killed in the camps.