▲ 925 ▼ Fatima Houssana and 9 of her family members murdered 24 hours after film accepted in Cannes festival (deadline.com) submitted 1 year ago by pete_link@lemmy.ml to c/world@lemmy.world 93 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) Plenty of those people could have worked. Slave labor was not the primary purpose of the camps. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ubergeek@lemmy.today -2 points 1 year ago (1 child) I said they were deemed unfit. Like women and children, the elderly, etc. Of course, some women were kept for sex slaves, too. Others were kept for medical experimentation, etc etc. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago Again, that doesn't mean the camps were built for slave labor. In fact, camps like Birkenau didn't have slave labor when it was designed and built. It wasn't even built near any industrial capacity. Almost none of the camps did. Only once the war with the Soviets started stagnating did the Nazis facilitate slave labor at a greater scale. Auschwitz III was a slave labor camp. Earlier camps like Auschwitz II was an extermination camp. You don't build a slave labor camp with enough furnaces to burn half a million corpses per year, without facilities for the prisoners to do any labor. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today -2 points 1 year ago (1 child) I said they were deemed unfit. Like women and children, the elderly, etc. Of course, some women were kept for sex slaves, too. Others were kept for medical experimentation, etc etc. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago Again, that doesn't mean the camps were built for slave labor. In fact, camps like Birkenau didn't have slave labor when it was designed and built. It wasn't even built near any industrial capacity. Almost none of the camps did. Only once the war with the Soviets started stagnating did the Nazis facilitate slave labor at a greater scale. Auschwitz III was a slave labor camp. Earlier camps like Auschwitz II was an extermination camp. You don't build a slave labor camp with enough furnaces to burn half a million corpses per year, without facilities for the prisoners to do any labor. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago Again, that doesn't mean the camps were built for slave labor. In fact, camps like Birkenau didn't have slave labor when it was designed and built. It wasn't even built near any industrial capacity. Almost none of the camps did. Only once the war with the Soviets started stagnating did the Nazis facilitate slave labor at a greater scale. Auschwitz III was a slave labor camp. Earlier camps like Auschwitz II was an extermination camp. You don't build a slave labor camp with enough furnaces to burn half a million corpses per year, without facilities for the prisoners to do any labor. permalink fedilink source parent