Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

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It started with burning books and banning transgender.

Same this time.

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Well in this case, if it were huge piles of "The Art of the Deal" I'd probably be quite happy about that!

Nie wieder ist jetzt!
@auschwitzmuseum thank you for reminding us

Thank you @auschwitzmuseum for your work & for finding such powerful words

In #memory of all who died & suffered. For all who lost loved ones. For all who survived but where broken & lived & suffered on.

For all who helped people that needed help – for all who fought and cared.

Dictatorships are possible when enough people decide to be a part of them

We have to listen to what they say and take it seriously

We can resist their instructions to hate

We can say no. We can #fight & #resist.

@auschwitzmuseum we must never forget the russian effort to bring this down...
@auschwitzmuseum so odd to look at the ruins at the end of the road, as we stumbled onto the path once again.

No, Auschwitz was a specific project by specific people with a specific ideology, Nazi Fascism.

Nazis did this not all humans.

Please stop normalizing Naziism with false equivalencies.

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@auschwitzmuseum indeed... Never forget! ❤️
@auschwitzmuseum Excellent timing. I've been reading a lot of articles comparing the current administration to Hitler and his regime, especially the history leading up to it, and it's really fascinating. It's also interesting that some of the other Nazi party leaders, mostly Himmler, were even more responsible for the Holocaust than Hitler in some ways.

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So, so true.

Also true: The Nazis dehumanized and killed Jews and also other groups of people they deemed unworthy of living.

That must be not forgotten as well.

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@[email protected] Perhaps it would be helpful to actually read the Genocide Convention. Hint: it does not mention body count. As the Srebrenica example - which Israel contests, precisely because it wasn't bloody enough for their taste - illustrates. As someone said, every genocide starts with words. That's why the Convention is the way it is. It's about those words.

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@auschwitzmuseum Thanks for sharing this and reminding us all that humanity should never go through this. We need to recognize the past and grow together as humanity, and set aside our differences for peace.
@auschwitzmuseum And thinking that everybody was able to understand what was going on during this process can be a wild mistake.

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The enormity of hate it took to end up w/place…

We’re ramping up to this level in the #us

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A estupidez humana é algo inaceitável desde sempre... Infelizmente, caminhamos para esse novo mundo da mesma forma estúpida de sempre! Os atores ainda são os mesmos!

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The first concentration camp in Dachau was established to do away with Hitler's political rivals and labor leaders.

@auschwitzmuseum Not much time tho. Nazi party (aka German Workers Party) founded 1919. Dachau started March 1933. So, maybe 4 US election cycles.
@auschwitzmuseum A path I fervently hope we never walk down again, but I worry…
@auschwitzmuseum tuve el honor de conocer sobrevivientes del holocausto en mi colegio. Mis hijos no tendrán esta posibilidad. No debemos olvidar nunca lo que pasó. No es que los alemanes actuales temgan culpa alguna de lo que pasó, pero nosotros todos, todo el mundo y yo como aleman en especial, tenemos la responsabilidad de permitir que cosas similares vuelvan a suceder.
@auschwitzmuseum We know. But people just didn't vote to stop it. Anything that will stop it now is much harder than strategically voting as a block, and people wouldn't even bother to do that. History will repeat.

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Et comme on le voit en Palestine, il n'est pas necessaire de beaucoup d'infrastructure pour en commettre un

Parc contre il faut beaucoup de désinformations, de narrations,et même d'espionnage et d'une presse travaillées au corps.

@InternetDev @auschwitzmuseum and it takes decades of hard-working lobby (AIPAC, ELNET ETC)

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et de politiciens corrompus...

Starmer - Sunak / Macron Sarkozy Hollande / Biden / voir Trump et Obama / Merkel / etc... etc...

Il faut aussi des assassinats et des "révolutions" Tunisie / Egypte / Libye etc...

Tout cela n'est pas arrivé par magie, elles furent d'ailleurs appelées "Révolutions facebook".

@auschwitzmuseum repuglicans in America are hurtling in the same direction 💔💔💔
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Hello,
I want to have some details about my grand father life's. He's named Kyrilo Muczynski, born in
Nehrybka. He says, he stand all the night in the camp. He saw " Arbeit macht frei". He was deported after he flee with jews in a wood.
I don't when he was deported.
I know he came in train. After this night, he took an other train to Mainz.
There, in a farm, he saw Mainz destroyed by Bomb.
Please, help me. I want to know the Truth !

@auschwitzmuseum Or, as Friedrich Merz said these days: "Abschiebungen müssen täglich stattfinden!"

It is horrible.

@auschwitzmuseum thank you for your words of wisdom

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Not only did it not start with gas chambers but it didn't even start with Auschwitz... many camps were set up before 1940 when Auschwitz opened in order to incarcerate increased political prisoners, resistance groups, and groups deemed racially inferior, such as Jews and Roma (Gypsies) and weaker (handicapped). Among these were Gusen (39) Neuengamme (1940) Gross-Rosen (1940) Auschwitz (1940) Natzweiler (1940) Stutthof a Gestapo Labor Education camp 1942 Majdanek (Feb 1943)

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2/2

People don't know most of them. I was at the Stutthof many times and traces of people's torture were still visible. I wish people were taught that in school. I wish they were shown the pictures and had a chance to go. Maybe it would make a difference.

@VeroniqueB99 @auschwitzmuseum Concentrationcamp Dachau, near Munich, started around 1933, so soon after Hitler came into power.

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Exactly.... look at Guantanamo...

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And we have the benefit of retrospect on this. People at the time couldn't imagine that such industrialized genocide was possible, we can.

One no longer needs to wonder or philosophize as to what the true depths of human depravity are, as we see with the jewish holocaust and in places like Gaza, the capacity for depravity goes all the way to the bottomand the only restrictions are those we impose.