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Originally Posted by Kekephee
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By the way, Sonaa, the answer to your question, which I actually asked myself when I was 14 and learning about the holocaust in school, is this: The camps were built by the prisoners in the camps. The reason the Nazis didn't "just go ahead and kill everyone" was that they didn't have the sufficient mechanisms to systematically exterminate millions of people. I don't think you're grasping how fucking HARD it is to kill a million people, let alone the vast SEVERAL millions the Nazis were shooting for. They used the camps to build the machines and the techniques that would ultimately serve to meet their needs for extermination. It started with one camp, built by a few prisoners, who built another camp, and now they had two camps, which they could fill with more prisoners and have more prisoners building. You see how it works? It was cheaper to work the prisoners to death building the system that was eventually going to kill everyone than it would have been to hire "legitimate" workers- who they needed for the war- or to, you know, feed them.
And I want to see your evidence that there were barber shops and shit. I think by "barber shops" you mean "everyone got dragged into a room where they had their hair and most of their scalp sawed off with a fucking knife and it took all of about thirty seconds"
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In fact many scholars contend that IT WAS THE VERY CONSTRUCTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MAINTAINENCE FO THESE CAMPS that led to the eventual downfall of the Nazi regime.
Hitler was a fuckin nutjob, and while he may have been a tactical genius in the early years of the war, his waning mental health caused him to make MANY TACTICAL BLUNDERS. Amongst those was the continuation of death camps they simply couldnt afford alongside the war effort