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(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
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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 youre going to sit there and kill all these people then how come all these things would be in there? Its more like a summer camp, you know. What Auschwitz was, they were actually manufacturing goods for the war.
Sorry, says the interviewer, who apparently hasnt read up on some of the nuttier fantasies of Holocaust deniers, Youre telling me Auschwitz was like a summer camp? Were 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 dont 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 hes just a big fan of Lockup, although we wouldnt 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 didnt 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: Its all history. Its all history.
REPORTER: Really! Whose history are you reading, where you think its 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 Reichs upper management recognized the need for some recreational downtime for the rank-and-file SS. They werent monsters, after all.
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3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)...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)And as the generation who actually lived through the Holocaust dies out, it will only get worse.
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