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  • Kornblumenratte@feddit.orgtoYUROP@feddit.orgEU_IRL
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    3 days ago

    No. Many nazis committed suicide at the end of the war, some were put to trial, but most suffered from amnesia for the years between 1933 and 1945 and were used to rebuild the Germanies.

    Ideologically, the Soviets waged a class war and aimed for world revolution in the name of “scientific marxism”. They prosecuted the upper and middle class, nationalists, religious groups, the cultural and academic elite of all non-russian groups, and everybody politically aligned to any political group except Stalinism.

    Of course – Stalinism and Nazism being pretty similar, to Stalin-era Soviets as to modern Rashism, the word “nazi” does not mean “a follower of National Socialist ideology”, but “everybody I view as enemy”. If you accept their definition, everybody they persecuted was a nazi, of course.





  • The article said till 1961. Concerning neonatal and infant care, the 1960s was the time when infant mortality started to drop. The article stated that the infant mortality in these homes was double the avarage infant mortality. If you take into account that the babies were separated from their mothers after birth, this is a pretty good result. If the infants had been neglected, you’d exspect a much higher mortality rate.

    Regarding disposing of dead babies in septic tanks – that depends. Stillborn babies were not considered human remains until very recently, and disposed of as biological waste all over the world.



  • That’s a terrible ineffective method, and a waste of water.

    Fill one sink with hot water + soup, put as much dishes in it as possible to soak them, and fill the other sink with fresh hot water. Clean one dish after another, preferably with a brush (you’ll burn your hands using a sponge), rinse them in the clean water, and put them on the dryer.

    If you do not have a second sink, use a tub for either purpose.

    And yes, the water will get dirty and cool over time, and you’ll have to switch if you’ve got too much dishes.

    Of course, if you’re only cleaning a plate and a knife and perhaos a glas, using just the tap is far more efficient.



  • The motivation was to protect women, who became pregnant outside of marriage, from becoming outcasts, and giving their children a chance of survival.

    A woman who became pregnant outside of marriage in these times had three choices:

    • illegal abortion, with a high risk of death, infertility and imprisonment
    • giving birth and face a life as social outcast for herself and her child
    • “repent”, go to a nunnery, give birth there, give up the child who would be raised in an orphanage, and return to society. As a bonus they often got some education in these “homes for fallen maidens”, at least in my country.

    By the way – a 15 % infant mortality rate sounds terrible to us moderners, but according to the article this was only double the normal infant mortality! This is a very good survival rate for new borns and infants who lost their mothers — this was the age before baby formula diet and antibiotics. We should honour these nuns for saving 85 % of the children rather than bashing them for only having the knowledge and tools of their age.