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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

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In Nazi Germany many did not know. Prisoners were taken at night to trains and thence to camps. Hitler controlled all the newspapers and broadcasts. People here today cannot pretend not to know. There are too many outlets to control all of them. At least for now.

It was in a part of Poland that Germany had brutally invaded, occupied and outright annexed. It wasn't even part of the "général government" territory. And there were plenty more concentration camps in Germany proper, starting with Dachau, the first they built

Offshore, for-profit KZs in a sovereign foreign nation are a genuine American "innovation". Auschwitz was in the German-annexed "Generalgouvernement" and under full German control and strategically located in proximity to the origin of the vast majority of designated victims.

Dachau was technically not an extermination camp. It was a concentration camp. It had no gas chambers and such horrors. The people who died there “only” died of disease and starvation.

Visiting with the leader of El Salvador is the start of dictator Trump’s plan. The poem on the Statue of Liberty now says, “Give us your rich. Fuck the poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. He has already designed his “gold card” for instant citizenship. Next up—debtor’s prison.

Ahh yes, the “France ceased to exist in May 1940” idiotic viewpoint. Just like how Eastern Ukraine is not Ukraine right now. Normal people refer to that period as “Occupied Poland”, little fella.

France was not 'occupied' but divided into 3 parts-annexed, occupied and Vichy. There was also Italian zone, I do not know this part of history. There was obviously De Gaulle but was he 'France' in 1940?

France existed as Vichy, had its army and navy. Polish army was formed abroad and underground. Poland was cancelled by Germany and Soviet Union, educated Poles exterminated or imprisoned. Our government acted in London. Auschwitz was not in 'Poland' and "Arbeit macht frei" is German.

Well, who did those testimonies come from though? Because Croatian camps might have been more likely to be seen by regular soldiers while the concentration camps were run by a unit of the SS. IOW, a Nazi officer serving at say, Auschwitz might not have been so disgusted.

Stunning how quickly it’s progressed from “dictator for one day “ to Nero watching Rome burn . Sadly the story that goes untold is the people who are being adversely affected who are just trying to get by in life . There must be some Trump supporters who are thinking - I didn’t vote for this .

Thank you for the reminder! Also, that they started with captivity but then they decided it cost too much to keep the victims alive and came up with a “less expensive” alternative.

The Nazi German extermination camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, Majdanek and Belzec were all located out of sight, in occupied Poland. The German population was kept unaware of this. “They were sent to work camps in the East.” And they slept on both ears.

Oświęcim Poland, been there and to Auschwitz in that city as well as Majdanek near Lublin also in Poland. It’s an overwhelming experience. Fun fact, the priest that married my wife and I in the U.S. was from Oświęcim.

The Peruvian people know how to fight fascism, a 100 year long socialist history and the communist party was the first to synthesize Maoism and claim protracted peoples war as universal. The most inspiring peasants and workers in South America 🔥

Me as well. They had gas chambers and crematoriums in many camps. I’ve been to Dachau (Germany) Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz- Birkenau (Poland) as well as Theresenstadt (Cz Rep). All had gas chambers and ovens. Life changing experiences. People should do it if able. I’ve been a better person for it.

Was there is 2007, I’m glad it was recovered. The room of hair haunts me still. Sometimes I wonder if it was as huge as I remember it or if being such a personal & physical part of these people it was magnified in my mind? Maybe 16x12 and stacked a 16 ft high ceiling? Could it really be?

There were camps all over Europe including Germany. Auschwitz was in Poland. Auschwitz is a town in Poland. The proper name in Polish is Oswiecim, Auschwitz is the German title. The initial camp was the former Polish army brick buildings. When that became to crowded Auschwitz-Birkenau was built

2. outside of the town. This was where there were approx 300 if the wooden barracks most are familiar with as well as the train tracks leading in. This is also where the 4 massive gas chambers and crematoria were located. There were crematoriums in most of the camps throughout Europe but did not

On purpose.

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"...the Jews of Vienna were murdered in Belarus. Why is that? And the answer is that the German state couldn’t actually murder them inside Germany... To carry out mass killing, it had to first create this zone of anarchy out in the east and then physically take the Jews and send them out there..."

That was to begin with & on paper to keep their hands “clean”. It changed through the last yrs of the war. Ravensbruk for instance was in Germany, originally labeled a “concentration” camp for “prisoners” but massive executions took place there as well. There were many in Germany. Dachau, etc.

“ #concentrationcamp ” originated in the 1890s—Spain used them in Cuba for civilians during the independence war. Earlier, the U.S. forced Native Americans onto reservations. Brutal in 3rdReich, not extermination camps. All the conditions + intent disturbingly similar. #CECOT #Gulag #FreeKilmar

But there were concentration camps also within Germany (Think Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau). The extermination camps where the majority of the holocaust happened were at large in Poland, run by the SS.

That said, the USA has a quite large prison system in the country, and is starting outsourcing other suspected criminals without due process. There is a very fine line before Americans get deported too.

El Salvador is the new nazi-occupied Poland. Trump is the new Hitler and all of the Republicans are the nazis. In addition to a Resistance, we are going to need a new Nuremberg. Hopefully, an “incompetent” hangman can once again be found to ensure the hanging is prolonged after the nazi defeat.

The Nazi konzentrationslaager didn’t start out as extermination camps, but they ended up there I don’t think our regime is planning to send people off to their deaths. We know that there’s no bottom with this guy and his followers, though. Let’s not take any steps down their road,

Inmates are held incomunicado, subjected to forced labor, and the operators seem to be proud of the fact that no one gets out of there alive. Whether the inmates are worked to death slowly or quickly is not really of the essence in defining what type of camp we are talking about.

I’m sure that the CECOT prison is a kind of hell on earth, and that no one deserves to be incarcerated in a place like that. Let’s not pretend that it’s Auschwitz or Andersonville, though. It’s been open for three years. There’s no evidence that the inmates are being worked to death.

I was in El Salvador last year and everyone there, whether pro or against the prisons, acknowledges that there are just a place to put people while they slowly die from malnutrition and disease

Thinking about the meeting between El Salvador's Lead mass-murderer and our own serial killer-in-chief and how right John Stewart was: "They're enjoying this." That entire exchange was more horrifying than Mickey and Mallory in NATURAL BORN KILLLERS. "Blood thirsty" barely covers it now...