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30. By the time that many of them did know, there wasn't much they could do about it. They would have been just shot or
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 05:37 AM
Feb 6

sent to a camp themselves.

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Doodley, I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering this. Scrivener7 Feb 5 #1
Been posting this here for a while Johnny2X2X Feb 5 #2
And some people think we can't compare to 1930s Germany. The hate among the far right is a tinderbox ready to ignite. Doodley Feb 5 #19
Thought the same! In Nazi Germany citizens thought Jews were just being deported. kerry-is-my-prez Feb 5 #3
Historians doubt that Germans didn't know EdmondDantes_ Feb 5 #13
Nobody in the Trump regime needs to know or care about what happens when, what they see as vermin, is removed. Doodley Feb 5 #20
I see a lot of 'vermin' in the White House just now, Jack Valentino Feb 5 #25
Some didn't know LostOne4Ever Feb 5 #26
By the time that many of them did know, there wasn't much they could do about it. They would have been just shot or raccoon Feb 6 #30
so much cheaper to bury them. mopinko Feb 5 #4
Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan, the Kurds, etc., etc Kaleva Feb 5 #5
What have they done with the homeless. Blue Full Moon Feb 5 #6
'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'" rampartd Feb 6 #28
The Nazi's started with 200 murders in 1934 of political opponents WarGamer Feb 5 #7
i think we are in the tens of thousands by including Tetrachloride Feb 5 #8
I agree that the OP is hyperbolic from where we sit now TheProle Feb 5 #11
You're right, of course... WarGamer Feb 5 #12
Why does there have to be a contest? choie Feb 6 #31
With all due respect, I'm asking a question. That isn't hyperbole. Doodley Feb 5 #16
With all due respect, I'm asking a question. That isn't hyperbole. Doodley Feb 5 #17
Who is comparing Trump to the holocaust? I've not seen that. Is he a fascist? Yes. An authoritarian? Yes. Is he Doodley Feb 5 #14
As far as the ADL is concerned, everything trivializes the Holocaust. iemanja Feb 5 #21
I don't understand how choie Feb 6 #32
Yeah you'd think... purr-rat beauty Feb 6 #33
Just remember - the Holocaust didn't start with the gas chambers. Initech Feb 5 #9
Thank you. Yes, we should not keep saying it will never happen, even as it comes closer and closer to that possibility. Doodley Feb 5 #18
Frank Zappa predicted it back in 1966: Initech Feb 5 #23
Umm, how could we not know it hasn't started already? ananda Feb 5 #10
True we have no idea what they Tree Lady Feb 5 #15
I watched a short doc on YouTube over the weekend about Vichy France rounding up Jews for deportation to Germany. Iggo Feb 5 #22
I keep saying on Here... Takket Feb 5 #24
The fact that the camps need to be liberated is a huge clue as to what's going on. Iggo Feb 6 #34
What do you think the empty warehouses are for pnwest Feb 6 #27
Warehousing. That's what. Iggo Feb 6 #37
Unfortunately, all TOO familiar. pnwest Feb 6 #38
It's been happening all over the world ever since the end of WWII Kaleva Feb 6 #29
History can repeat itself LetMyPeopleVote Feb 6 #35
I'm not sure it ever stopped, seems like it just went on a world tour 0rganism Feb 6 #36
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