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You could be transphobic without being a nazi, even though it probably helps. I believe most of the world at the time was *phobic.
by arpa 6y ago
You could be transphobic without being a nazi, even though it probably helps. I believe most of the world at the time was *phobic.
- krapp 6y agoGay prisoners liberated from the concentration camps (they were marked with a pink triangle) were sent back to prison for the crime of homosexuality. And the Allies were little better - Alan Turing was convicted of homosexuality, chemically castrated and stripped of his security clearance and eventually committed suicide. Those attitudes were absolutely the norm at the time. As was anti-semitism, which while not as virulent as in Germany, was not at all uncommon in the West at the time, particularly among American business leaders. IBM wasn't as much of an anomaly as people want to believe.
- ncmncm 6y agoStill, not too many other American business leaders were personally awarded a custom-designed Iron Cross by Hitler himself. So there's that.