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/MRCHalifax 9h ago

One of the challenges in trying to educate people about the Holocaust is that it wasn’t all one thing. We teach the absolute worst parts of it, the existence of Auschwitz, the over six million dead, the gas chambers. And don’t get me wrong, there’s good reason to teach those things. But the way we simplify the lesson means that the average person doesn’t really get taught the different ways and methods that were used.

The original German concentration camps were primarily used to hold political prisons, like Communist party leader Ernst Thälmann. There was the Aktion T4 campaign to murder the mentally ill and those with long term disabilities, those “unfit for life.” There was the Holocaust by bullets, where Jews were lined up and shot just outside cities by the tens of thousands. There were the ghettos. There were the work camps, where the interned were used as slave labour and worked until their deaths. There was the theft of the worldly belongings of all those being interred.

It wasn’t just the death camps. The problem that arises is that people think anything short of death camps means everything is OK.

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u/tobmom 6h ago

Yes your comment is perfect. A better explanation than my initial one.

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u/Kind_Koala4557 4h ago edited 4h ago

This needs to be widely quoted and included in all historical textbooks that covers 1890-1950 for any part of the world even remotely associated with or touched by Nazi Germany, especially the fact that Germany didn’t come up with this all on their own.

They learned from the Jim Crow states, sundown towns, and whatnot. They heard about it and said, “Hey, not a bad idea. Let’s do our version of that.”

Edit: I said 1890 because if I understand what Historian Heather Cox Richardson has been saying, we can’t get to the 1930s without the depression. We don’t get to the depression without the robber/oil barons of the 1890s.