Meanwhile in CanadaThis is like if Nazi's sold Auschwitz merchandise to their base in 1941.
It's beyond sick. The clinical term is sadistic psychopathy.
Dan Neuman 🇨🇦@MeanwhileinCanada Could I make "Alligator Auschwitz" merch to drive home the point? Is that going too far?
Edit: more a question for Jewish people about usurping a painful part of their history.
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@dan613 @MeanwhileinCanada That might force the MAGA crowd to ask “why Auschwitz?” - “Because Alcatraz implies due process”.
@CAWguy @MeanwhileinCanada I also wanted alliteration. Someone else pointed out that Dachau, being in Germany, not Poland, is more accurate. But Auschwitz is also more familiar.
skittles@dan613 Auschwitz was located in Germany proper at the time, today’s border between Germany and Poland was drawn after WW2 by the USSR.
Ariaflame@skittles @dan613 @CAWguy @MeanwhileinCanada If you can call 'annexed in 1939' part of Germany Proper. Do you call the areas occupied by the Russians in Ukraine currently 'Russia proper'?
@ariaflame No, I don’t. Germany, however, did. Prior to 1918 it was part of Austria. Until 1939 it was probably not even 5 km behind the German border, not several hundred like today.
My point being: Auschwitz was considered part of the German Reich proper (not e.g. the „Generalgouvernement“), which meant German „law“ applied, i.e. Germans deported there did not become stateless. Auschwitz was not Poland.
@skittles @dan613 @CAWguy @MeanwhileinCanada Well, Russia considers Ukraine its. So I don't see the distinction. If you go back far enough every country has different borders.
@ariaflame The point is not about whether it was „lawfully“ (or whatever) Germany.
People (many Germans as well) look at a modern map and think the Nazis deported and murdered people somewhere far far away, in the middle of nowhere rural Poland.
They didn’t. They did it in „their backyard“, a stone’s throw across the river Vistula, the official border until I think 1921.
If you look at the map of 1914 Germany you get a very different idea:
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@ariaflame Yes, and that’s a lie that’s been thoroughly debunked. No, not all Germans knew, not about the full extent. But they knew plenty enough.
@ariaflame https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/izbp%20329%20Deutsches%20Kaiserreich_2_Bevoelkerung.pdf (Population)
https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/izbp%20329%20Deutsches%20Kaiserreich_3_Wirtschaft.pdf (Economy)
That area was densely populated, hugely important and highly industrialised, Wrocław (Breslau) was one of the largest cities of the Reich.
They didn’t put Auschwitz in „the middle of nowhere“. They put it where they already had an extensive railway network in place.