Now russians are forcefully deporting Mariupol citizens to russia and take away their passports. Right now new concentration camps are being created in russia for ukrainians. This is horrifying, please do not stay silent, spread this information!
“800 to 900 yards from the place where the ovens were, the prisoners were squeezed into little cars that ran on rails. In Auschwitz these cars had various dimensions and could hold up to 15 people. As soon as a car was loaded, it would be set in motion on an inclined plane that traveled at full speed down a corridor. At the end of the corridor there was a wall, and in the wall was the door to the oven. As soon as the car hit the wall, the door opened automatically, and the car would dip forward and pitch its cargo of living people into the oven. Right behind it came another car with another load, and so on.”
I can’t believe this is a controversial statement in some parts of America but here’s a true fact:
A “Child detention camp” is ALWAYS A BAD THING
Anyone who supports literally locking children in cages and treating them worse than zoo animals? That’s a BAD PERSON
There is no fucking “Grey area” on the subject of whether or not its okay to take people and put them in cages and treat them like they are not even human beings and it fucking horrifies me that we live in a world where people actually act like this is something that should be debated like “Should we commit a crime against humanity? Y/N? Answers on this piece of paper and we have to respect everyones opinion even if we disagree with them”
And to all the people who say “Oh ICE agents aren’t monsters their just doing their jobs” hey guess what your literally saying that ICE “Are just following orders”
So go google that phrase and its historical context and see if you still think that ICE and fascist pieces of shit like them aren’t literally fucking demons
And if you still support ICE after that and still think that ICE are not bad people I really don’t know what to say other than “Have fun in hell” because that’s where you’ll be going after you die
Not to get political here, as I run this meme page strictly for memes, but the United States is currently holding children and families in cages with little to no resources for basic human necessities (e.g. showers, water, soap, blankets, etc). I don’t feel like I can properly celebrate the 4th of July and be proud of a country that is using concentration camps to directly target my community.
If you want to help, please text “RESIST” to 50409, or continue this discussion with people you know.
As our king Daniel Howell has stated, we must all stand up for what is right even if it doesn’t effect us.
Thank you for reading, and expect more memes soon.
I’ve spent the past months reflecting on how easy it seems to be for people to not only become desensitized to cruelty, but also become willing participants in it. There were a lot of people tried for war crimes at the end of WWII and while it might feel natural to write them all off as Hannibal Lecter-style sickos, reality paints a different picture.
The vast majority of Nazis were just…regular. They weren’t people who had resumes full of operating gas chambers, performing gruesome medical experiments, and overseeing slave labor and just got lucky that Hitler created lots of job openings in their fields of expertise. Hitler didn’t just go down to Genocide University and hire the entire graduating class on the spot.
They had families. A lot of them probably had good senses of humor, played sports, and loved the arts. They probably read their kids bedtime stories, went to church, played fetch with their dogs. Regular. People.
So did 1930s Germany have an uncommon amount of depraved psychopaths, or it was full of average people who ardently endorsed shocking depravity after years of exposure to hyper nationalist propaganda? Or is there a difference? Would it even matter if there was? And what about all the people who weren’t necessarily enthusiastic cheerleaders, but just passively went along with it? Are they not just as guilty, even if they may not be equally depraved?
I think about this almost every day now in our current political climate. I think about this every time someone cheers when Donald Trump talks about shooting migrants or rolls their eyes whenever someone protests the child separation policy at the border, every time they share memes about mowing down BLM protesters in their gas guzzling trucks or lynching Democrats for (insert your own contrived conspiracy theory-based reason here).
I think about this when pundits do interviews with people who say they don’t like Donald Trump’s actions and rhetoric but plan to vote for him anyway, like “Yeah, it’s unfortunate that he’s a terrible human being who advocates for terrible things, but…” These people make me think of all the every day citizens in 1930s Germany who went from being just regular to earning nicknames like The Hyena of AuschwitzorThe Butcher of Prague.
Pretending they were always monsters is dangerous because it keeps us from recognizing the real potential this kind of thing could happen again. It keeps us from periodically examining our own hearts and asking if weourselves could ever be capable of such atrocities under the right set of circumstances.
Most of these people would have never been categorized as monsters…until they were. Everyone thinks they’re a good person…until they’re not. And everyone thinks their cause is noble…until it isn’t.
JERUSALEM – Live in the bustling city of Jeruzalem came to a grinding halt and time stood still for 2 minutes in remembrance of the Holocaust. Israel remembers the Holocaust victims. People throughout the country paused for 2 minutes in honor of the innocent lives that were lost during…
In the spring of 1945, photographs and witness accounts from the liberation of camps like Bergen-Belsen afforded the disbelieving world outside of Europe its first glimpse into the abyss of Nazi depravity. See the photos here on LIFE.com.
In 1935, a Nazi law legalized the `compulsory sterilization of homosexuals.’ A special section of the Gestapo dealt with them.
Of the 100,000 gay men that were arrested at least 15,000 were sent to concentration camps wearing pink triangles. The pink triangles worked in the clay pits of Sachsenhausen, the quarries of Buchenwald, they shoveled snow with their bare hands in Auschwitz & they were used as living targets at the firing range; they had the dirtiest jobs in all camps.
This Holocaust Memorial Day we should remember them too.
