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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Jew not like the way I look?



I had been avoiding going to things to do with WWII mainly because it's such a damn heavy subject line. Everybody knows that Nazi Germany kicked the Jews about to no end. But did you know that ignorance was such at the time that they involved science into findings that the Jews were an inferior race? Below is the accompanying diagram for this statement. All the photos are from my visit to Haus der Wannsee Konferenz - where they made the decision to chuck all the Jews into gas chambers.

So these anti-Semitic reactions were backed up by 'science'. They did a lot of genetic tests at the time - studying eyes, making a giant point about Jews having bigger noses. The Nazis anti-Semitic campaigns then tried to scare people about mixing with the 'inferior race' - with unflattering pictures of Jews, comparing them to parasites. On a poster about TB, you'll see the 'sick' face of a Jew. There are mock-ups of what the human race will turn into should we mix race.

It's absolute daftness to look back on and in another light I'd probably laugh at the unenlightened thinking of it all. But unfortunately the travesty is that these racist studies were backing up the all out attack on Jews.

It wasn't only Jews that were attacked as an inferior race in Hitler's time. The sick were also a major target. Hitler agreed to euthanasia, which should have been more controversial than it would appear to have been at the time.


Take a look at this poster -- it's advertising that all the sick be killed off. It's saying that a sick person is costing the German taxpayer 60,000DM a year - and they even go on to use the slogan 'It's Your Money Too'. Whatever about propaganda hiding truths and getting people to think a certain way - this poster just goes a little too far over the edge. It's blatantly saying to kill off anyone with a bit of a sickness. All in the name of trying to create a superior race. It was a mental concept to kill off other races and 'inferiors'.

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