• a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I'm listening to The Third Reich at War and that's not even true. Some of the gas chambers, the ones based on captured Soviet tank engines, broke down all the time. Sometimes with victims already inside.

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          I did have someone argue to me that Hitler was left because he used government funds to create jobs in the military.

        • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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          edit-2
          3 years ago

          "Hey Otto, they need you down at chamber 6, the gasser is clogged again". Otto grumbled and grabbed his tool bag, looking through it and pulling out a can of WD-40, giving it a good shake to make sure there was enough fluid for the job.

          Just imagining this was a real human.

          Just further imagining the score needed on the Nazi asvab to qualify for being trained for the position.

          • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Meanwhile, I'm imagining what the 1930s German equivalent to WD-40 might have been, and guessing it's still around and being manufactured by Bayer or something. Probably some variant of 3-In-One.

          • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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            3 years ago

            tbh it was probably some poor fucking slave who would be forced to fix the gas chamber. Nazis needed all their "aryan" mechanics in the USSR to glue their massive pile of broken tank transmissions together.

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        "Uh... We're gonna have to pencil you in for tomorrow. Is that ok?"

        (really though, they probably just kept the people in there while repairs were made.)