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niyad

(112,440 posts)
Thu Oct 1, 2015, 12:31 PM Oct 2015

KKK Dude So Jealous Of Jews At Auschwitz, With Their Coffee Breaks And Swimming Pool

(sadly, this is NOT from the Onion)

(you can see the video at the link below)

Klansmen Say The Darnedest Things


KKK Dude So Jealous Of Jews At Auschwitz, With Their Coffee Breaks And Swimming Pool

image:
TO SUMMER CAMP!


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Meet a nice KKK couple, James and Amanda, as they prepare a bunch of KKK recruiting fliers for distribution. After James says that Barack Obama has done wonders for Klan recruiting, he reads an amusing little poem about “niggers in the White House,” which is so funny he has to stop, twice, to giggle at his own wit. After a cut, the BBC interviewer asks him why he has a framed picture of Hitler on the wall. This is what is known in the documentaries-about-racists business as “low-hanging fruit.” Our Aryan Superman explains:
Adolf Hitler, he was one of the smartest men there ever was, you know? The so-called concentration camps like Auschwitz and so forth, they say they were death camps, you know? But these death camps, they gave the so-called people that were being killed cigarettes, there was coffee, there was a movie theater, a library, even a swimming pool in Auschwitz. And if you’re going to sit there and kill all these people then how come all these things would be in there? It’s more like a summer camp, you know. What Auschwitz was, they were actually manufacturing goods for the war.

“Sorry,” says the interviewer, who apparently hasn’t read up on some of the nuttier fantasies of Holocaust deniers, “You’re telling me Auschwitz was like a summer camp?” We’re not certain whether the reporter is genuinely astonished, or playing it up a little bit for the camera.

“Well, they had a swimming pool, a movie theater and everything else. You know, you don’t see in any kind of prisons today any kind of swimming pool being in the middle of the pod or the prison hall,” James says, evincing a knowledge of prison architecture that suggests a certain expertise. Maybe he’s just a big fan of “Lockup,” although we wouldn’t otherwise think he watches much MSNBC. The robust Socratic dialogue continues:
REPORTER: So what do you think the Jews were doing at Auschwitz?
JAMES: Swimmin’, and workin’. Because they didn’t want to do any work, and what Hitler was trying to do was he was trying to teach them to work, trying to rehabilitate them, if you will.”
REPORTER: Where did you hear this? Who told you…?
JAMES: It’s all history. It’s all history.
REPORTER: Really! Whose history are you reading, where you think it’s a summer camp?

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The fucked-up thing is that there was a swimming pool at Auschwitz — for the SS guards, not the prisoners — as documented by Jean-Claude Pressac in his out of print book Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, hosted online by the Holocaust History Project. (Full disclosure: Yr Doktor Zoom used to help out with the HHP, a fine group of folks who debunk Holocaust denial.) The “swimming pool” was originally a reservoir for firefighting, later adapted for dual use as a swimming pool. Auschwitz amenities also included a library and a brothel — again, only for the use of the Nazis who ran the place, as well as for some privileged Aryan prisoners. Running a death camp was hard work, and the Third Reich’s upper management recognized the need for some recreational downtime for the rank-and-file SS. They weren’t monsters, after all.
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/594390/kkk-dude-so-jealous-of-jews-at-auschwitz-with-their-coffee-breaks-and-swimming-pool#rGZLOC4DHXLLAsTs.99

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KKK Dude So Jealous Of Jews At Auschwitz, With Their Coffee Breaks And Swimming Pool (Original Post) niyad Oct 2015 OP
Willing suspension of disbelief... 3catwoman3 Oct 2015 #1
Scary that people believe this oberliner Oct 2015 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author BigDemVoter Oct 2015 #3

3catwoman3

(23,820 posts)
1. Willing suspension of disbelief...
Thu Oct 1, 2015, 12:58 PM
Oct 2015

...is all well and good if you are reading a book or going to the movies. Not so much when looking at history.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
2. Scary that people believe this
Thu Oct 1, 2015, 01:01 PM
Oct 2015

And as the generation who actually lived through the Holocaust dies out, it will only get worse.

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