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live love laugh

(15,364 posts)
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:18 PM Friday

Auschwitz is in Poland.

Last edited Fri May 23, 2025, 11:07 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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Biophilic

(5,667 posts)
1. Yes.... The Germans didn't want to do their evil deeds in their own country.
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:21 PM
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Beyond that I’m confused.

canetoad

(19,025 posts)
9. There were plenty of
Fri May 23, 2025, 11:39 PM
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Concentration camps in Germany proper, just not the main killing factories; they were positioned close to the ghettos in Poland for convenience.

sarisataka

(21,688 posts)
2. Yes it is
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:28 PM
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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

(9,027 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, 05:31 PM
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