So odd to have plays, daycare, and orchrestras at "death camps"
It's almost like there were no death camps rather there were transport and labor camps.
Orchestra at westerbork concentration camp
Painting on the walls of the daycare at thereseinstadt concentration camp
Painting on the walls of the auschwitz concentration camp daycare
Soccer teams at thereseinstadt concentration camp
Shower room was used for showering and hair was cut to stop the spread of lice
Orchestra, plays, violin quartets, movie theater, camp cantina
If you read interview of the Germans who were actually there at the time, they will attest to the fact that the Jews, although forced into camps, were treated quite well. In addition to the optics of the international community through the Red Cross that harsh conditions would have made the Germans look bad, their labor was essential to the war effort. Mistreatment of the Jews in these camps was punishable by death. We have records of that.
I suppose one could argue that forcing people into camps to perform “forced labor” is a “crime” (though the US was putting innocent American Germans, Japanese, and Italians in camps at the same time), I would argue that it was completely justified given the threat of murderous communism that most Jews supported. Especially during a time of war. One cannot assume that an individual Jew didn’t support communism just because they may claim they didn’t if asked. Despite this, the Wehrmacht had many Jewish soldiers and there were several “good jews” who were part of the Nazi party. Hell, the Wehrmacht posterboy who was used on Wehrmacht recruitment propaganda as “the ideal German soldier” was he himself a Jew.
Then Germans wanted the Jews out of Europe. That’s no secret. The Jews wanted a “Jewish state”. That’s also no secret. The Germans helped many of the German Jews move to Palestine prior to the war. England declaring war on Germany changed all of that and Germany was forced to take actions they may otherwise not have taken.
But to argue that they then suddenly implemented a system of mass torture and mass genocide that hundreds of thousands of otherwise good Christian Germans just went along with is laughable.
there is no one i am close to in real life that would ever consider this information.. that the jews were rounded up at all is the crime.. because people are naive and assume that jews running child brothels or jewish doctors injecting people with poison is impossible even though this literally is going on today as news headlines show.