Doesn't surprise me. They were labor camps, and it pays to have your workers in a decent mood.
It honestly is just such a strange story about gas chambers and giant transportation networks to kill people. If you look at every real genocide in history, it's been done either via starvation (ie Holodomor, Kazakhstan) or shootings in the streets/fields (ie Rwanda, Cambodia). You don't conduct mass killings in secret; you do it openly to keep your enemies demoralized and fleeing and give your extremists something to rally around. You secretly disappear your political enemies, but at the point where you want to kill millions, you're going to find a more public and faster/cheaper way of doing it.
[–] StrangeThingsAfoot 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
Doesn't surprise me. They were labor camps, and it pays to have your workers in a decent mood.
It honestly is just such a strange story about gas chambers and giant transportation networks to kill people. If you look at every real genocide in history, it's been done either via starvation (ie Holodomor, Kazakhstan) or shootings in the streets/fields (ie Rwanda, Cambodia). You don't conduct mass killings in secret; you do it openly to keep your enemies demoralized and fleeing and give your extremists something to rally around. You secretly disappear your political enemies, but at the point where you want to kill millions, you're going to find a more public and faster/cheaper way of doing it.
[–] smokratez 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
They were vacation camps. You think you can make jews work?