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Did the Nazi program start at those levels? Or did it start with exactly this rhetoric and excuses?
by misnome 2y ago
Did the Nazi program start at those levels? Or did it start with exactly this rhetoric and excuses?
- Terr_ 2y agoThat was probably a rhetorical question, but just-in-case, the Nazis absolutely started with deportations many years before the gas chambers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_evacuation_and_expulsion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_evacuation_and_ex... They even plotted to forcibly deport victims to fenced-in zones on an island which they would seize from another country, putting it outside their laws at home. Except it wasn't Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan
- southernplaces7 2y agoThe Nazi program of concentration camps and terror started almost immediately, and included an enormous amount of overt, obvious, very violent state repression against anyone at all who criticized the regime. This included sending them to the first camps, formed in 1933, right after Hitler's appointment, and openly torturing and beating people, or executing them extrajudicially. None of anything from Trump's government is at all comparable so far and making such comparisons, aside from being a genuinely idiotic case of ideological exaggeration, is also an insult to real victims of real historical concentration camps and violent regimes. For all the self-congratulatory patting on the back by many readers on HN about their "superior" intellectual reasoning, I see a remarkable abundance of largely failing at such reasoning when it comes to many comment threads and subjects on this site.
- misnome 2y agoWikipedia says it was two months after Hitler’s appointment before the first camps were established. It’s been less than two weeks and you are already doing the groundwork to preemptively excuse it.