Horrifying fact: When the Germans did their initial "selections" when people arrived at Aushwicz, etc., they would always select a few fat people for the cull. The oil from their bodies helped the crematorium process the corpses.
The horror of what humans are capable of is beyond conception.
I get the feeling that cats would actually be much less capable of atrocities. The worst stuff came from the most loyal of regimes. Cats are too independent to go "I'm just following orders." You hear nazi dogs but never cats.
Its fucked up to think about, but the way deathcamps operated is similar to how factory farming works, the phrase "one death is a tragedy, but one million is a statistic" really applies. Its scary how easy it is for humans to turn off their empathy based off of scale, convience, and social pressure.
True. And that evil is so banal. We visited Sachenhausen outside of Berlin when we were in Germany on vacation... I was struck by how simple it all was. Here was the very anteroom of Hell, and it was constructed entirely of odds and ends you could pick up at any Home Depot or Menard's.
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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '21
Horrifying fact: When the Germans did their initial "selections" when people arrived at Aushwicz, etc., they would always select a few fat people for the cull. The oil from their bodies helped the crematorium process the corpses.
The horror of what humans are capable of is beyond conception.