• stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I bet half of the people at :reddit-logo: don't know that Hitler drew some inspiration from the way the US treated POC and other minorities at that time

    • SickleRick [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Or that they designed their gas chambers after US Border Patrol's gas chambers and used the same chemical.

        • SickleRick [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/a-short-history-of-zyklon-b-on-the-us-mexican-border-please-dont-share-with-donald-trump/

          The use of Zyklon B on the U.S.-Mexican border was a matter of keen interest to the firm of DEGESCH. In 1938, Dr. Gerhard Peters called for its use in German Desinfektionskammern. Romo has tracked down an article Peters wrote in a German pest science journal, Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde, which featured two photographs of El Paso delousing chambers. Peters went on to become the managing director of DEGESCH, which handled the supply of Zyklon B for the Nazi death camps. He was tried and convicted at Nuremberg. Hilberg reports that he got five years, then won a retrial that netted him six years. He was re-tried in 1955 and found not guilty.

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      They get really defensive every time it's brought up. The usual "every country has been colonized" is then brought up.