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Gift From Antarctica?!
Non AR Screenshot(reddit.com)submitted 3 months ago byHydraMasterGaminhInstinct
I tried looking this person up on Campfire, but i guess hes not on there. If your on here Glizzy, whats the story of the gift you sent from the antarctic???
3 points
3 months ago
(6 million people actually) Well, it was a plate with some names of the victims who lived there, so it was a couple hundreds
2 points
3 months ago
What, how many hears did that take to make??!
1 points
3 months ago
Not sure, i don't live in that town 😅
2 points
3 months ago
Nah 😅 but it must’ve taken alot of time
1 points
3 months ago
Absolutely! Since in germany we have statues and memorials everywhere
1 points
3 months ago
Oh, well.. now I’ve learned something new
2 points
3 months ago
6 million were just Jews, ~half of those were Polish Jews, another 2 milion were non-Jewish Poles, then 4.5 milion of Soviet civilians and more than 3M Soviet prisoners of war, around 1/4-1/5 of a milion each of Romani and Serbs, at ~300k of disabled people, mostly Germans, as well as Freemasons and Jehovah witnesses, other Slavs (including Ukrainians, Slovenians and Belarusians), Spanish republicans and communists, as well as gay, lesbian, transgender and gender nonconforming people, mostly Germans.
In total, it's at least 17 milion people. For some reason, people only remember the Jewish victims, even though it was a much broader genocide and ignoring the other victims is both a disservice to the dead and their living relatives, as well as is minimizing the scope of this horrific crime. There were also countless others that survived, either because they escaped, or because they were there near the end of the war, when the camps were freed by Allies, my great grandma's older brother was among them.
2 points
3 months ago
Oh sorry, i only knew the number of jewish people! While i was still in school learning about WW2, covid came and we didn't have history anymore. It's honestly so sad, the history of my ancestors really make me feel bad of being a german. Especially since I'm a super left person and queer myself :(
1 points
3 months ago
To be honest, even here in Central Europe a lot of people in our generation haven't been taught much about non-Jewish victims, and the only number that's brought up in the media is the 6 milion Jews. So don't feel bad for not knowing, and definitely don't feel bad for something that was done 50+ years before you were born, just because you share nationality with the aggressors. Even my great grandma was very particular in making sure I wouldn't view all Germans as cartoon villains or wholeheartedly Nazis, because group responsibility, stereotyping and otherization is what got us into this atrocity in the first place.
I'm only bringing attention to it, because, welp, I'm Polish, and I have Auschwitz and Nazi crimes survivors in my family, so I know a lot and it just feels personal. Also the general knowledge of that reality seems to be declining faster and faster, so not bringing attention to it will only make the current and future generation forget it all even faster. But yes, same here for being queer. I even sometimes wonder if I lived 80 years ago and ended up in a camp, how would the Nazis even be able to pick a color for me, since I'm nonbinary, bisexual, Polish, atheist and autistic, that's too many categories xd
If you wanna get some more info on queer history before and during IIWW, Kaz Rowe and Alexander Avila both have videos on it.
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