@parents4future #Trump seems to be near to the "Endlösung".

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannseekonferenz

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I seem to recall that for the Nazis, they actually endeavored to make the rail transport of detainees purposefully slow and inhumane.
IIRC they decided it was more efficient and convenient if as many detainees as possible died in the rail cars, rather than at a processing facility or in the camps.

So, they were very fast to get detainees on the trains, but then they were meandered around the system, parked on sidings for extended periods, etc.

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Exactly what Hannah Arendt ment by the banality of evil.

@ryan_harg

Nun, z.B. das KZ Dachau diente – vor allem in den Anfangsjahren, als die NSDAP ihre Macht festigen wollte – zur Inhaftierung und zur Einschüchterung politisch Andersdenkender.

Es war kein Vernichtungslager.

@ryan_harg hmmm.

the way people were transported to/in cecot were no less brutal than the transports the Nazis did. Since the analogy only shows transport, it's fair.

The next steps are speculation, but no apologism detected here.

@SeanPLynch @parents4future "The Nazis treated people like cattle"

That's true, but doesn't grab the whole scope.

Since about 1942 the KZs belonged to the "Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA)" of the SS. That (roughly translated as "economy and administration office") was a part of the central government. It was part of the SS, but it's main scope that the "economic" use of KZ inmates .

The extracted e.g. teeth of killed inmates. Or they sold their household belongings. The money was then used by the government to drive the oppression of the german people AND the extermination of gypsies, Yehova's witnesses, Yews, some disabled people AND to fuel their attack war and oppression of other countries.

It was the economic aspect that made this run so long!

KZ inmates were income!