• comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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    6 days ago

    I know this is old news and no one really cares anymore, but the Nazis did the same.

    Homeless, mentally ill and people with disabilities where sent to special institutions where they were tortured, experimented on and later murdered.

    Aktion T4

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      6 days ago

      I still care, there are dozens of us at least, please don’t stop highlighting these kind of connections

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      It’s important to recognize too that the death camps were only the final solution to their problem of having too many prisoners. They started with regular concentration camps like the one built in Florida and worked up to the gas chambers later. They’re following the Nazi playbook exactly.

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      Also worth noting that Nazis ripped this straight off what was happening in America in the same time period, though Americans stopped at forced sterilization.

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        Is forced the same as coerced, because if it is then there were multiple legal “forced” sterilizations in some parts of the u.s. up until just a few years ago.