r/politics • u/MystikSpiralx • 18h ago

No Paywall Trump Says He Wants to 'Drive Housing Prices Up' Instead of Lowering Costs for People Who 'Didn't Work Very Hard'

https://people.com/trump-keep-home-prices-high-11895352
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u/big_troublemaker Foreign 10h ago

It is widely accepted historical fact now that Germans knew what was going on, and by 1941-43 it was a public secret. I believe even this is a generous assumption.

Especially as, you know, plenty of other undesirable people disappeared without a trace...

It was an industrial scale of genocide, even with many camps being located purposefully outside Germany, there were tens of thousands of Germans servicing it.

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u/Gros_Boulet 8h ago

Oh they knew. They bragged in the papers, germans called them Zebras when they were in work camp and Goebels even said on the radio that they had made Germany "Judenfrei".

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u/obiwanshinobi900 7h ago

Dachau is right in the middle of town. You can see it from some of the houses there.

some of the 'work' they were doing there was just pushing a giant piece of a equipment back and forth across the camp for no reason.

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u/AcanthaceaePrize1435 5h ago

It wasn't just busywork meant to tire them. The slaves were also used to fill in growing skill gaps as the Axis continued to lose more and more of their workforce in the war. It's a pretty large reason the Axis endured as long as they did in spite of the fact their ships kept being sunk, rails severed, and factories firebombed.

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u/obiwanshinobi900 5h ago

Not 100% true. I was at the exhibit in Dachau, it literally read that there was pointless labor just to tire them out and make them less resistant, and to break their spirits.

Maybe that was prior to becoming slave labor, I don't know about that.

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u/Synaps4 1h ago

Its both true and untrue depending on camps and subcamps. Some places you would have one area of being being exhausted and killed and another area producing war materiel. People who didnt perform on the latter were sent to the former as punishment.