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KentuckyWoman

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18. Well... maybe.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:54 PM
Nov 21
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/deceiving-the-public

At the same time, positive stories were fabricated as part of the planned deception. One booklet printed in 1941 glowingly reported that, in occupied Poland, German authorities had put Jews to work, built clean hospitals, set up soup kitchens for Jews, and provided them with newspapers and vocational training. Posters and articles continually reminded the German population not to forget the atrocity stories that Allied propaganda spread about Germans during World War I, such as the false charge that Germans had cut off the hands of Belgian children.

The perpetrators also hid their murderous intentions from many of the victims. Before and after the fact, the Germans used deceptive euphemisms to explain and justify deportations of Jews from their homes to ghettos or transit camps, and from the ghettos and camps to the gas chambers at Auschwitz and other killing centers. German officials stamped “evacuated,” a word with neutral connotations, on the passports of Jews deported from the Germany and Austria to the “model” ghetto at Theresienstadt, near Prague, or to ghettos in the East. German bureaucrats characterized deportations from the ghettos as “resettlements,” though such “resettlement” usually ended in death.

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Lots of empty prisons in this country... lame54 Nov 21 #1
They'll start with undocumented immigrants. no_hypocrisy Nov 21 #2
I'd like to say: Don't be silly, we're still a fair and loving country. chouchou Nov 21 #3
Post removed Post removed Nov 21 #4
Your words are so very true. Boy..Sometimes a person REALLY wants to wake up.... chouchou Nov 21 #6
"They will take pains to give them a innocuous names, and avoid saying the word camps..." LudwigPastorius Nov 21 #5
Dumb move in a country packed to the gills with firearms. roamer65 Nov 21 #7
G.O.P. will market them as retreats: Air D & P's BoRaGard Nov 21 #8
Yeah they will be FEMA style tent camps. Mostly dreamers and old maids. joshcryer Nov 21 #9
Here's what I want to know - Initech Nov 21 #10
I don't think that's the part of the DOD they'll be cutting. In fact, Eloon... keep_left Nov 21 #16
'concentration camps' are expensive and are the opposite of deportation Bonx Nov 21 #11
They need facilities WOLFMAN87 Nov 21 #13
The private prison industry is for it! Their stock soared with Trump's 'win' travelingthrulife Nov 21 #15
That makes no sense unless they are planning extermination. milestogo Nov 21 #12
Concentration camp does not include killing inmates WOLFMAN87 Nov 21 #17
Why use the term then? Mosby Nov 21 #21
Well... maybe. KentuckyWoman Nov 21 #18
The US put Japanese in concentration camps in WW2 NickB79 Nov 21 #19
Internment camps milestogo Nov 21 #20
"...there will be innocents whose lives will be ruined..." B.See Nov 21 #14
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