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Would you have helped to build Auschwitz if you got paid enough money?
by ams6110 8y ago
Would you have helped to build Auschwitz if you got paid enough money?
- maxxxxx 8y agoI am from Germany and a lot of people did help. They were ordinary citizens before 1933, then they supported mass murder until 1945, then they became citizens of a democratic country. History has shown repeatedly that most people will follow brutal dictatorships and only a few will resist. I don't know what I would do and neither do most of us without being in that situation.
- gambiting 8y agoThere's a quote by Polish nobelist Wiesława Szymborska: "Tyle wiemy o sobie, ile nas sprawdzono" Which translates roughly to: "We only know as much about ourselves, as we've been tried" During WW2 there was a lot of atrocities committed by people against their own. Not just Nazis against Poles or Jews, but Poles against Poles, Jews against Jews, Ukrainians against Ukrainians....etc etc. People who were given a choice to either hunt and kill their own, or have their families killed. Nazis frequently got the native population to do the most evil stuff(for the promise of being left alone in exchange), even documenting it on film and photos to show it back in Germany as "look at those barbarians killing each other". Basically we don't know what we would do in case of extreme adversity until we actually face it. I personally wish with all my being that my test will never come.
- dTal 8y agoFunnily enough, this isn't some outlandish hypothetical. American IT workers literally helped build Auschwitz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
- NikkiA 8y agoAnd they haven't stopped, they just recently built the surveillance system for Duterte that would identify 'drug users' to allow them to be targeted for extra-judicial killings.