News: White House slams Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld for saying ‘useful’ Jews survived Nazi camps
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A lot of "useful" prisoner, like doctors and nurses, were used by the nazis to treat other prisoners in the concentration camps. These doctors were killed every six or so months and new ones replaced them. The nazis had endless waves of people that they murdered.
I fucking hate nazis. We should make them all afraid again.
Strangely enough The Strain (a show about vampires) portrayed it very well.
If you were "useful" you could basically sell your soul and help with some part of the extermination of people just like you. When you stopped helping you were killed and replaced.
Modern republicans ignore every subtlety and act like some of them were treated like humans and implying the reason everyone else was brutally executed was because they were worthless.
It's because a lot of modern republicans openly identify with nazis these days.
Behind the Bastards covered this on their Mengele episode, which I highly recommend. Robert Evens had a more sympathetic outlook towards the jewish doctors who were useful to the nazis.
Basically, they were put in a terrible situation, and they were able to use their relative privilege to help other internees. And it isn't like they were living the life of luxury, they were all murdered on a regular basis so that they individually wouldn't become to important to the death machine. We shouldn't judge those people too harshly given the choices they were given essentially.
And, I am terrible afraid of the right wing in the US. They aren't even hiding their intent to do a genocide anymore. I live in a progressive enclave of a deeply red state. Needless to say, I'm armed and I encourage all my progressive friends to get armed.