• Alloi@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    nazis literally based the design of the holocaust on the american genocides and reservation system.

    they taught the nazis how to nazi.

    they just arent as subtle about it anymore.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtf
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      8 days ago

      That’s a lot of learning from the British Empire too then.

      And from that other moustached Austrian/German, Ed Bernays, on how to sell the genocide to the public. Top “advertising or marketing” [“crystalizing public opinion”/“manufacturing consent”] you got there, USA.

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        7 days ago

        Yeah, the British invented concentration camps. Or at least used them in the Boer wars, I guess they probably weren’t the first to gather people in camps to deal with some portion of them running a resistance.

        The Nazi innovation was the gas chambers.

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          6 days ago

          The Nazi innovation was the gas chambers.

          And quite a silly one.

          They already had Ed Bernays style mass indoctrination methods… why bother getting people on trains to gas chambers [nor even the gas chambers on the trains], when you could just have them decide to make their own way to injection centers

          Much more cost efficient, on both the state’s transport costs, and the costs of the poison.

          /dark.

          :(