Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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Holocaust history

The trajectory was roughly:

1. Aggressive marginalization and terrorizing of Jews, both via legal means and via day-to-day violence, in an effort to make Jews “self-deport” (starting in 1933)

2. Increasing mass detention of Jews under inhumane conditions, forced labor (•this• is what the “concentration camps” were…at first)

3. Attempts at mass deportation of Jews (they tried to work out schemes to send all the Jews in Europe to Madagascar, Siberia, or the Levant)

4. Systematized mass murder (starting in 1942)

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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Holocaust history

We learn the history of the Holocaust not just to remember the victims, but to prevent it from happening again. “Never again” is a call to ceaseless, eternal action. It is a call to recognize the trajectory of genocide •before• we reach the worst, to recognize that we are still in those precious years before, and to recognize that a Final Solution is coming again, unless •we• stop it.

And the way we stop it is not by making the concentration camp guards sit through a Powerpoint deck on de-escalation.

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