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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/users/marymessall/statuses/114880674839852164">marymessall (marymessall@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 05:06:02 JST</a><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/@marymessall" title="marymessall@mendeddrum.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/96350-48-20250502102045.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="marymessall" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">marymessall</a><div><a href="https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/114877349517883573" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/@futurebird">@futurebird</a> </p><p>It was Timothy Snyder's book "Black Earth" that opened my eyes to the reality that deporting people at scale is impossible, that keeping people alive in captivity is difficult and expensive, and that it was incompetence in addition to evil which caused the Nazi concentration camps to become death camps. I have these screenshots from the ebook that I keep on my phone so that I can share them when the topic comes up.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5374224#notice-10551228">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-07-20T05:06:02+09:00" title="Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 05:06:02 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/@marymessall/114880674839852164" rel="external" title="Sent from mendeddrum.org via ActivityPub">mendeddrum.org</a></span></span><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/@marymessall/114880674839852164">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4960050">Meanwhile, the Russian Empire deported about half a million Jews from their homes, on the logic that they might collaborate with the invaders. The army was the agent of deportations, so soldiers and officers could loot Jews, their fellow Russian impe-rial subjects. This mass expulsion from the Jewish heartland, accompanied by systematic theft and frequent violence, was one of the greatest disruptions of traditional Jewish life in history. In the minds of Europeans, the Russian deportation altered the Jewish question. Tens of thousands of Jews fled the Russian Empire creating an impression in European cities that Jews from the East were suddenly every-where.</a></label><br><a href="https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/media_attachments/files/114/880/623/831/547/276/original/9ba9dfacadcec598.jpg" rel="external">https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/media_attachments/files/114/880/623/831/547/276/original/9ba9dfacadcec598.jpg</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4960051">Goering said that Hitler would now approach the western powers with a Madagascar for the resettlement of Jews. Two weeks after Kristallnacht, Hitler was discussing the deportation of European Jews to Madagascar with confused Polish diplomats. The Poles could not understand how Germans could intend such a complicated logistical operation when all they seemed able to organize was chaos in Austria and Germany. The problem for those responsible in Berlin was that there was no actual overseas colony to which Jews could be deported. For the Germans, the ghettos were holding tanks —Where Jews were concentrated before deportation to some exotic place where nature would take its course. In the overpopulated ghettos, deaths outnumbered births by a factor of ten. Most of the people who died in the first months were Jews who had been deported from the countryside or from other towns</a></label><br><a href="https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/media_attachments/files/114/880/629/282/294/078/original/2f06977e3e017669.jpg" rel="external">https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/media_attachments/files/114/880/629/282/294/078/original/2f06977e3e017669.jpg</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4960052">The annexation of Austria accelerated the deportation of Jews, the invasion of Poland created a new opportunity for their ghettoization, and then the war of annihilation against the Soviet Union would permit a Final Solution. It was not a Final Solution of the type that had been considered, a deportation to some obscure and distant place seized from another empire.  It was a Final Solution of mass murder in the Jewish homeland itself, in eastern Europe. From BLACK EARTH THE HOLOCAUST AS HISTORY AND WARNING by TIMOTHY SNYDER 
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It was Timothy Snyder's book "Black Earth" that opened my eyes to the reality that deporting people at scale is impossible, that keeping people alive in captivity is difficult and expensive, and that it was incompetence in addition to evil which caused the Nazi concentration camps to become death camps. I have these screenshots from the ebook that I keep on my phone so that I can share them when the topic comes up.
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