Disabled people were among the first victims of the Nazis. What I did not know was that this program of eugenics through murder was very furtive at first. They knew that "do gooders" and "the church" would object to killing disabled people, often children just to save money.
They were careful not to have too many deaths at any one center at first. But as the stress of war created further chaos they become more open about these murders.
Thinking about it, it doesn't make sense that they would be open about doing such a thing. There were people who objected. Those people were called sentimental and unreasonable. And of course the murders would expand.
The killing centers were disguised as care facilities. Sometimes they billed families for months after their relative was dead.
The centers also collected state pensions and social security for months after killing the people sent there for care. So they were very scammy in a way that I don't think we recognize enough in the Nazis, one state sponsored but privatized operation mooching off of public benefits.
That I have heard more about "welfare moms" than this in my life is something to ponder.
What are the odds that DHS and ICE are going to do the same thing with the hundreds of thousands or millions of Americans they are going to be sticking in their death camps?
@Quasit @futurebird @emilychwiggy
What are the odds that they haven't been, already?
Who are the people in all those unmarked graves behind that one prison in Jackson?
And how many more are there?
Considering we're dealing with people who traffic children for all that Epstein stuff, I don't think we can rule anything out when asking what ELSE they traffic people for-- on all these planes flying with their transponders turned off, passing prisoners to places that still have overt slavery, like Mauritania. I put nothing past these monsters. Nothing. The sort of people who double-tap elementary schools and hospitals... There is no line they won't cross.
How many Mengeles and worse could be operating right now that we'd never hear about? And how many more, going back over the years?
In Germany most people didn't know what was happening until the camp were liberated and the footage came out. Oh, they probably heard rumors but they shrugged it off. Nowadays, we can't even trust photos anymore, what kind of coverage would it take for people to face it, much less do something about it?
@MonniauxD @violetmadder @Quasit @futurebird @emilychwiggy
It seems to be that if you offer the public the faintest thread that they can deny a massacre, they will deny it.
The Holocaust was unique in that the whole thing was blown open with thousands of photographs and witnesses, and shoved into the face of an occupied nation who had no option to reject it.
@violetmadder @Quasit @futurebird @emilychwiggy
Among other things, it's heartbreaking that the mother in the Mississippi article said she would escalate to the federal government for help.
If she did, today's regime would have buried the case by now.
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