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as to whether this guy knew what was happening--if he was mostly at buchenwald, its' possible that he was attached to the political camp and not the extermination camp and could have--had he worked really really hard and had the wind always blown in a favorable direction so that the smell from the ovens did not waft his way, in other words had not knowing been his real fulltime job and training guard dogs was just a side gig--its *possible* that he didnt know.
but he was at dachau.
he knew.
and its really unlikely that he didnt know at buchenwald as well.
i dont really understand the genocide--it's just water over the bridge---not my problem who really cares---attitudes above.
and i PARTICULARLY do not understand the logic that would have folk substitute contemporary "immigration problems" for dealing with folk who participated at one level or another in genocide. particularly because---well---the genocide of the 1940s was geared around cleansing the national body politics from contaminants, outsiders etc.. too.
it really makes me wonder what, if anything, folk are thinking when they say this stuff.
if there's a problem it centers on the fact that this guy is in his 80s, apparently not in the greatest of health, was a low-level functionary in a horrific machine and--frankly--he slipped through the cracks and got away with it.
so fine. he's in his 80s and it would be absurd to deport him beause it would be the functional equivalent of executing him.
but he knew.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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