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[–] rustyfish 110 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

That’s not a historian. That’s a Nazi. One is into history, the other into getting stepped on their cock and balls by someone looking like their dad while a World of Tanks video plays in the background.

Get your shit together. Geez.

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[–] themeatbridge 103 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Here's Darryl Cooper, obvious Nazi, lying to justify the Holocaust, unedited so nobody can accuse me of bias:

You know, Germany, look, they put themselves into a position in Adolf Hitler’s chiefly responsible for this, but his whole regime is responsible for it, that when they went into the east in 1941, they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners, and so forth that they were going to have to handle. They went in with no plan for that and they just threw these people into camps. And millions of people ended up dead there. You know, you have, you have like letters as early as July, August 1941 from commandants of these makeshift camps that they’re setting up for these millions of people who were surrendering or people they’re rounding up and they’re- so it’s two months after, a month or two after Barbarossa was launched, and they’re writing back to the high command in Berlin saying, “We can’t feed these people, we don’t have the food to feed these people.” And one of them actually says ‘Rather than wait for them all to slowly starve this winter, wouldn’t it be more humane to just finish them off quickly now?"

That's Darryl "the Holocaust was Humane" Cooper, ladies and gentlemen.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 54 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wow, that s load of crap. That vast, vast majority of murdered Jews were civilians, not surrendering opponents. They rounded up people from their own cities. Disgusting.

[–] chuckleslord 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're telling me that they're not considered prisoners of war if they're just random civilians you picked up and shoved into camps because of the color of their skin/ way of life/ cultural affiliation of their mothers? This is ridiculous, who else would that refer to then? /s so much /s

[–] Malidak 4 points 2 weeks ago

I mean. Prisoners of war rarely committed any actual crimes right? And I can definitely imagine the Nazis using that term in official documents. Would be stupid otherwise. I think there is a book, the bureaucracy of murder, that talks about those euphemismic language in brutal states. I can also imagine some officers in those camps actually being concerned with feeding the people (or handling the other prisoners watching their comrades die of hunger), just not out of empathy. And finally, it's just really stupid to take those letters and make a case for the Holocaust being an accident, wtf.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It seems that he is deliberately conflating the Holocaust with the deaths (due mainly to exposure, famine, and disease) of three million Soviet prisoners of war (out of six million captured).

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners, and so forth that they were going to have to handle. They went in with no plan for that and they just threw these people into camps.

I'd like to put him on the spot and get him to flesh out that "and so forth". It's carrying a lot of weight there.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Dude, you know how it is. You're enjoying some Wagner music and the next thing happens naturally: you're invading Poland and genociding 6 millions people.

And of course the funny thing is that the genocide starts even before the stated cause, very curious indeed. This shit happens all the time.

[–] GraniteM 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

From an essay about Auschwitz, written by [Rudolf Höss,] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_H%C3%B6ss?wprov=sfla1) the commandant of Auschwitz, written after his capture:

"I myself never knew the total number, and I have nothing to help me arrive at an estimate.

I can only remember the figures involved in the larger actions, which were repeated to me by Eichmann or his deputies.

From Upper Silesia and the General Gouvernement 250,000

Germany and Theresienstadt 100,000

Holland 95,000

Belgium 20,000

France 110,000

Greece 65,000

Hungary 400,000

Slovakia 90,000 [Total 1,130,000]

I can no longer remember the figures for the smaller actions, but they were insignificant by comparison with the numbers given above. I regard a total of 2.5 million as far too high. Even Auschwitz had limits to its destructive capabilities."

Even THE FUCKING COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ, writing no doubt in his own defense while awaiting trial, basically said "Oh, I couldn't have possibly murdered more than 1.13 million people at my personal death factory!"

What a Nazi fucking prick. Both of them.

[–] CitizenKong 2 points 1 week ago

Clearly that Auschwitz head guard was a communist crisis actor!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Holy fucking shit that is bad.

There's zero fucking excuse for that. It's just straight up holocaust denial.

[–] jordanlund 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Jesus... Nothing he said was right. Let me guess, Tucker didn't challenge him on any of it, did he?

[–] themeatbridge 6 points 1 week ago

I dunno, my brain shut down at some point.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

"Hi welcome to between two Nazis"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The funny thing is that does also kind of apply to Churchill and Hitler, given how much they both loved empires, Aryan race theory, and genociding brown people.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was probably something more broadly in the Zeitgeist, but that doesn't mean the UK CEO is suddenly more evil than someone who directed the genocide (not Netanyahu for a change).

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[–] edgemaster72 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is so far beyond the pale of just weirdos. If you have Tucker Carlson and a holocaust denier at a table, you have two holocaust deniers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You misspelled Nazis

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago

When I read the first bit of the headline I was like “Sure, I can see Churchill being a big villain, after all be is a piece of shit. Worse than hitler? That’ll need quite a bit of justification since I don’t think there is any way to justify that position. Then I read the second half and realized they are using “historian” to give that neo-nazi a bit of credibility while they do a bit of holocaust denial.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

“Oopsie-daisie! Just look how all these Jews and gays and Roma, et al just accidentally slipped and fell into these trains then camps then ovens! What crazy accident that was!”

This fucking Nazi

[–] BenLeMan 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah he's pretending like the Wannsee conference never happened.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago
  1. Okay, I will admit that bread is good. Especially garlic bread. Mmmm.

  2. I would call the amount of planning and engineering that went into the concentration camps impressive, if it wasn’t done with such a horrific purpose in mind. The Holocaust certainly was NOT an “accident”.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

If he was a historian, he would not be so quick to put the label “villain” but instead form a sentence that describes his actions and then say something like “which is why I personally consider him a villain”.

Historians don’t lead with the labels, they talk about events and facts and then once it’s clear, they suggest an opinion.

[–] formergijoe 9 points 1 week ago

Don't forget Elon's now-deleted tweet promoting this.

[–] militaryintelligence 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Slowly sanding down the jagged edges of fascism, making it easier to swallow.

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[–] ZILtoid1991 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At least he didn't deny the Holocaust...

Or does he go like "it happened and it was a tragedy, but the people documenting it added an extra zero by accident..."?

[–] FlyingSquid 12 points 1 week ago

He basically said, "they had to kill the Jews out of mercy because they couldn't afford to feed them." Like they were doing something to help the victims.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Most deniers try to wrap it up in a bow. It's often "there was a disease outbreak they were trying to control", or "the death toll isn't nearly as bad as the official story", or "it would have been dumb for the Nazis to spend so many resources when they were losing the war", or "Auschwitz had a swimming pool". They rarely come right out and say it didn't happen.

It all has the same goal: make the holocaust not seem so bad so they can implement the same policies.

[–] ZILtoid1991 3 points 1 week ago

I know, I was groomed by the far-right

[–] VindictiveJudge 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it would have been dumb for the Nazis to spend so many resources when they were losing the war

I mean, starting the war in the first place was pretty stupid, as were a great many of their other decisions. It's not like Nazis are, were, or ever will be rational actors. So wasting resources on genocide in the middle of a war they were losing was very much in-character.

[–] Mediocre_Bard 2 points 1 week ago

Homeboy on the left so Nazi that he salutes sitting down.

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