Nazi death camp staff at a resort for Nazi personnel, 1944
Nazi death camp staff at a resort for Nazi personnel, 1944
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Good to not forget that normal people are capable of atrocious behavior.
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Normal people are very adaptive to the boring routine, may it be counting inventory or counting skulls. I'm pretty much afraid not of psycos who do evil things intentionally, but of normal people who do them 9to5 without a thought, and then go back to shopping, care for their children and elderly, and resting like that.
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the occupants of the internet use a similar photo as a joke all the time
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Just ordinary people living their lives. That's what makes the nazis so fucking horrifying. How they managed to make their people disassociate from the atrocities.
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That's why I love the Milgram Experiment
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There are at least three Gertrudes in this picture.
This is right up there with that Imperial Japanese soldier smiling his ass off with two comfort women on his knees.
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Do you have a link to that picture? I'm not good enough at web searching, evidently.
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The banality of evil
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Ugh, teambuilding exercises. Am I right?
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10% of people are decent, 10% evil and the other 80% will just go where they think is best for them - Susan Sontag
An unrelated example, an estinated 11000 people die every year in Australia from transport pollution, try and redo how we do things based on that horrifying data ? Crickets and push back, 30 a fucking day for decade after decade, way more then any war or terrorist event. Oh we are gassing jews, gays and gypsies, of course we are!
Traffic pollution likely causes more than 11,000 premature deaths in Australia a year.
Now back in Madison Square Gaden a few years before the posted photo
And then to a Trump supporer
History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.
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The original zionist TikTok.
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When talking about the making of Jojo Rabbit (a must see movie, in my opinion), I remember Taika Waititi making a point out wanting to represent the colourful fashion and more lively sides of Germany under the Third Reich. War movies tend to portray Nazis as dark and dull figures with no inner life other than murdering Jews and plotting for world domination. This is probably dangerous, as we won't recognize the fascists when they're in front of us. They'll be laughing and dancing as they murder the innocent.
Similar to how we study Eichmann to learn about the banality of evil, I think pictures like this one should be in every text book. This is what evil looks like — pretty much like anything else, if you're willing to ignore the atrocities.
Jojo Rabbit is recent very rare 10/10 from me. Absolutely amazing.
Highly recommend The Zone of Interest as well. An unusual film about everyday life of nazis.
Came here to mention Zone of Interest. Incredible film.
Very different from Jojo Rabbit of course, but fantastic for showing what humans can come to consider the trivialities of ordinary life.
I'm very happy I saw it in the cinema. Also very happy I was somehow completely oblivious to the thematic when the movie started: I first saw the swimsuits, thinking "huh, is this the 30s?". Then I heard the German, at which point I realized nothing good was going to go down. I guess the sound during the intro also gave a hint.
Anyway, amazing movie. Worth seeing without distractions.
Speak for yourself.
Considering how much fascism is on the rise globally and the results in the latest US election, most people do not in fact recognize fascism. Nor see it as the threat it is