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[-] foodandart@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Auschwitz was a particular focus for whatever reason..

It was the largest and most streamlined of murder mills the NAZIs built. It also had a notorious sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" over it's entrance gate (which was on many of the mill gates, honestly) which means "work makes you free." A particular point of of the darkest irony considering the mills literally forced people to work with such cruelty that their only freedom from the abuse and torture was death.

NGL, it could be easier to get us back to that point and echo those horrors now, more than it's been since the end of the Second World War.. Generational amnesia - what with the liberating soldiers and victims of the camps themselves now mostly dead - being what it is.

Our great-grandparents saw and survived some hella fucked up shit.

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

My grandparents generation. Grandpa and grandma survived Churchill's famines in India, the independence and separation from Pakistan, and various other events.

The problem is the fucked up shit never stopped.

[-] foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

So very, very true.

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