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>>3314664
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The Sonderkommando, for instance, were groups of specially chosen prisoners tasked with disposing bodies. Literally translating to “special unit”, Sonderkommando groups consisted of Jews, coerced under threat of death to carry out horrifying labors. Inmates who belonged to the Sonderkommando were expected to remain able-bodied and capable of doing their duties. As a result, they were spared the arbitrary beatings and killings that regular inmates endured daily. Consequently, the Sonderkommando often provided longevity for its members, although there were very few survivors by the war’s end. Because the Final Solution was to remain covert, Sonderkommando units were destroyed and replaced every few months to insure secrecy. Sonderkommandos had an intimate knowledge of The Holocaust, and as a result, were driven to revolt in a number of Nazi death camps. An uprising at Auschwitz left 3 guards dead and part of the crematorium destroyed. Over 400 Sonderkommandos would be executed as a result. It’s important to note that many (although still a low minority) of Germans disagreed with Hitler’s view of Jews, but were unable to oppose the regime without serious repercussions to themselves. German industrialist and businessman, Oskar Schindler, for example, is credited with preserving the lives of over 1,200 Jews by employing them at his enamelware and ammunitions factories. The film Schindler’s List dramatizes Oskar Schindler’s evolution from a profit-motivated Nazi to a dedicated Jewish sympathizer. As time went on, Schindler would shield his Jewish employees without regard for profit, often bribing party officials to keep them safe. He was named Righteous among Nations by Israel in 1963, and died in 1974.

>>3314671
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Some Nazis even experienced oppression by the regime they supported. For instance Emil Nolde, a Danish-German Nazi, had over 1000 of his paintings seized by Nazi agents despite his close affiliation with Joseph Goebbels. The regime rejected his idea of art as degenerative. The Nazis believed that only classical romanticism was true art. Nolde was prohibited from creating anymore paintings, but continued to illustrate hundreds of impressionist “unpainted” pieces which he hid in his home.
The perpetrators of the holocaust are difficult to establish. The most universally accepted culprit is obviously Adolf Hitler himself, but party members throughout the administration also have blood on their hands. Eichmann, Himmler and Goebbels are just a few of the plethora of Nazi officials that made the destruction of six millions Jews run like clockwork. Deep in his seat at the office of Jewish Immigration sits Adolf Eichmann. With the quick frolic of his pen, he would facilitate the mass deportation of countless Jews to concentration camps. His role in Hitler’s administration was unique and was never held by anyone else. If Eichmann’s job was to get the Jews there, Himmler’s job was to deal with them upon arrival. Heinrich Himmler was supreme commander of the SS. He executed the final solution within his jurisdiction of concentration camps. Under Hitler’s orders, Himmler created extermination camps and paramilitary death-squads. He was one of the most powerful men in the Reich, and is widely blamed for the holocaust. Joseph Goebbels was Hitler’s right-hand man. He oversaw the distribution of propaganda in Nazi Germany, including heavily anti-Semitic posters and writings that served to desensitize the population to the Final Solution and to prepare German citizens for an aggressive war.

>>3314675
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A sound argument could be made that the Holocaust could not be made possible without the collaboration of these individuals – even just one. A single perpetrator can never be named for the murder of six-million Jews. It was a grotesque trickle-down effect, stretching from the dizzying heights of Hitler’s command, to the terrifying jackboot of the average deathcamp guard.
The very uttering of “Holocaust” stirs emotions like no other word. “Never again” said the world. And yet, since 1945, major genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur have occurred. Is it willful ignorance? Are the leaders of developed nations more inclined to turn a blind eye to potential genocides simply because it’s easier than intervening? It seems so.

holocaust deniers BTFO

>>3320514
Carlo il Grande was obviously Italian

>>3320529
No Carolvs Magnvs was obviously Roman(Greek)

>>3320514

>It´s Gaulish and no Roman, I swear!

>>3314516
Throat singing is badass. I learned how to do a bit of it myself.
Another good example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSczKB03Ts

>>3314516
What does is says?

>>3314477
"put it in your ass hole"

>>3314801
Fpbp

>>3314477
conrad poohs

>>3320504
Stalin the Great

>>3320504
Richelieu

>>3320504
William Longshanks my nigga

This is a form of autism I have never encountered

>>3320601
Hello plebbit

>>3320489
>Religion upholding the belief in an incarnate deity and physical resurrection from the dead
>about transcending physicality
>implying

>>3320463
D U D E

>>3320463
There seems to have been a thing in Asian society, I dont know if anyone has written about it, of withdrawing from society, either temporarily or permanently, in order to achieve some spiritual goal.

If I were to speculate, their connection to a higher power made their deviancy somewhat more acceptable, because they were responding to the prompts of a higher power.

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>>3320463
There was no thing as "traditional Chinese values" around when he was still alive.

In fact: there was no China at all when he was around. While the pre-Imperial Chinese States did have a notion of common general culture like the Hellenic City States did, but they're all foreign to each other as far as the States were concerned, and each had their own culture.

>>3314366
plastic is superior in every way

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is he dead, /his/?

No. I get inspired because I'm not a gigantic faggot.

Nope. Great men are icons of human potential. They make me proud to be human.

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>>3320440
>tfw ywn have so much money you reenact Napoleon's coronation for yourself

Guilt is an artificial construct imposed upon you by moralizing Western Christianity. Do what you want and whatever you can get away with, do not let anything stand in your way, especially if its some invisible imposed guilt.

>>3313752
I robbed the cash in a shop when I was 15, and despite the fear and the shame, I had an erection...
If someone can explain this.

>>3320421

Why wouldn't it be? What part of it do you imagine is not compatible?

What's a good translation of Meditations to read?

It is. I discovered it a month ago and was fascinated how fast it helped me to get rid of social anxiety. And i haven't even embraced it fully yet.

Best bet is we have a Scattering so humanity will no never be under threat of totalitarianism again.

>>3313605
Frank Herbert pls go

>>3313593
Sad part is, we pretty much only went to space in the 50's, 60's, and 70's to get a win over the Soviets. Once we got to the Moon first, the drive fell, we had a few more missions, then it was scrapped and we had the stagnation of the space shuttle program. If you want us to go back to space like before, we need an actual competition with another hated foe that has a chance of beating us there. I don't think any kind of advanced exploration or colonization will be very profitable and doable by just private industry alone, so I'm not as optimistic about it as most people are.