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live love laugh

(16,172 posts)
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:18 PM May 2025

Auschwitz is in Poland.

Last edited Fri May 23, 2025, 10:07 PM - Edit history (1)

I saw this in a brief social media post this morning.

Let it sink in.



My point/the point of social media post:

El Salvador is not in America … sending people “away” can be deadly. Out of sight out of mind.

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Auschwitz is in Poland. (Original Post) live love laugh May 2025 OP
Yes.... The Germans didn't want to do their evil deeds in their own country. Biophilic May 2025 #1
America is possibly following in Germany's footsteps. live love laugh May 2025 #8
There were plenty of canetoad May 2025 #9
Yes it is sarisataka May 2025 #2
Maybe because the parallels of MAGA rounding up people and shipping them off to prison camps in other countries? W_HAMILTON May 2025 #4
So were Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Majdanek. rsdsharp May 2025 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author WhiskeyGrinder May 2025 #5
And? bif May 2025 #6
Dachau is in Germany. Sneederbunk May 2025 #7

Biophilic

(6,379 posts)
1. Yes.... The Germans didn't want to do their evil deeds in their own country.
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:21 PM
May 2025

Beyond that I’m confused.

canetoad

(20,075 posts)
9. There were plenty of
Fri May 23, 2025, 10:39 PM
May 2025

Concentration camps in Germany proper, just not the main killing factories; they were positioned close to the ghettos in Poland for convenience.

sarisataka

(22,203 posts)
2. Yes it is
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:28 PM
May 2025

so is Chelmno. Buchenwald and Dachau were in Germany. Mauthausen was in Austria, Theresienstadt was in the Czech Republic.

What does the location of Nazi camps matter?

W_HAMILTON

(10,016 posts)
4. Maybe because the parallels of MAGA rounding up people and shipping them off to prison camps in other countries?
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:31 PM
May 2025

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