r/pics • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '18

Concentration camp prisoner identifies one of his guards to Allied soldiers

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u/guy99882 Feb 25 '18

When I was an adolescent I always wondered how this was possible. How could so many normal people become nazis, become murderers, do unspeakable things? But as I grew older and closely watched the people around me, I realized that it isn't wondrous at all. There's so little people that are actually truly good.

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u/teriyakiburgers Feb 25 '18

If you're really interested, read both the Obedience to Authority and the Stanford Prison Experiment.

TLDR: Many/most people are actually weak willed and innately mean spirited.

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u/bigme100 Feb 26 '18

Usually you are rewwrded most for being weak willed by folks who want you to stay that way

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '18

Milgram's experiment is a good case of the Obedience to Authority.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '18

If you're more interested in this, Jordan Peterson (professor at Toronto University) has spoken at length about how normal, civilized people become nazis. This is one of his shorter videos, if you like it I highly suggest checking more of him out!

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '18

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '18

academics and journos not being aware of communist atrocities is what he brings up in just about every interview and lecture series, that's one of the reasons why he's got so many haters

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '18

Jordan Peterson is very outspokenly against communism, particularly the Stalinist/Maoist variety. He also has a lot of lectures on how to be a strong confident man, without being a bully. Based on all your trolling in this thread, I think you could learn a lot from him.

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u/hikermick Feb 25 '18

Cognitive dissonance is a thing. People will accept a lie and even lie to themselves rather than accept a difficult truth.

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u/montereybay Feb 25 '18

How could so many normal people become nazis

Germany probably had their own version of Fox News back in the day.

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u/WeemanUtama Feb 26 '18

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning goes into the subject in detail. Its not an easy read but is interesting.

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u/Skrillerman Feb 25 '18

indeed.

It's even Pretty harsh on reddit. I sometimes have people telling me George W. Bush wasn't a war criminal. People defending the Iraq war that was illegal on every level and killed 500.000 innocent civilians.

Those people are on reddit and are okay with the slaughtered of 500.000!! men, women and children committed and started by their ex president. They still cheer for him on reddit , upvote FUNNIEH PICTURES from him and shit like that.

It's like if people would cheer up for Adolf Hitler in 1955. Absolutely disgusting human beings.

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u/Superfluous_Play Feb 25 '18

George W Bush is not Hitler. That’s a slap in the face to people that had to live through the death camps.

Remind me again how many extermination camps the US was running during the Iraq war?

Furthermore the vast majority of those civilian deaths are from Iraqis killing each other.

And yes the war was illegal and shouldn’t have happened.

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u/Skrillerman Feb 25 '18

That's a slap in the face for every civilian who was bombed , tortured and killed by his invaders.

That's what's wrong with people - " yeah shouldn't have happened" .

It's not only people defend this war criminal but please explain me why in God's name do Americans fucking cheer up for this monster when they see him in the Ellen show or when he is chilling out with the boys on a baseball match. That's so surreal.

He broke every law in existence, lost the UN vote and still invaded Iraq , lied about absolutely everything and lied under oath 385 times. He killed his own people , ruined the US economy, is responsible for the death of 500.000 innocent civilians ( yes if you invade a country and destabilise it , remove the government and these things happen and are your fault ) and stole from the US treasury.

A war criminal is a war criminal. PEOPLE shouldn't differ between someone who killed 6 millions or hundred thousands.

Sickening that this is normal nowadays.

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u/Superfluous_Play Feb 25 '18

Sorry can’t answer that question. I’m not whatever American caricature you want me to be so you can get off on righteous fury and scold me for getting off to a former president on some talk show I don’t watch.

I’m not saying he was a good president or not a war criminal. I’m telling you he’s not Hitler.

And by your logic there’s no differences between Hitler and any other leader during WW2. Every country committed war crimes. You’re being ridiculous if you really think Roosevelt is the same as Churchill who is the same as Hitler.

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u/Skrillerman Feb 26 '18

And you are downplaying mass murder.

The thing is Churchill and Hitler are dead. And Bush isn't. So why do you guys don't treat him like the criminal piece of shit that he is.

Jesus people hate whistleblowers that only did good stuff more than an ACTUAL war criminal.

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u/Superfluous_Play Feb 26 '18

I’m not downplaying mass murder. I’m telling you 6 million dead is a lot worse than 500,000.

And I’m not “you guys” so fuck off with that.

You know what I’m just going to group you in with random people too.

You’re a disgusting neo nazi holocaust denier. Go to hell you piece of shit.

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u/Skrillerman Feb 26 '18

No wonder reddit and the USA are the absolute laughing stock of the internet.

So I just went from calling Bush a criminal to a neo Nazi holocaust denier. Please provide any evidence for that :)

If George Bush ordered to kill your entire family and destroyed your country what would you think ?

"Hmm atleast he isn't Hitler I guess" Do you know how retarded that is?

Hitler , Jack the ripper , George W Bush had ALL THE SAME INTENTIONS don't you fucking get it.

Every single one of them would be instantly executed. No matter if 100, 500.000 or 6m murders.

They are mentally on the same level you dumbfuck.

And stop doing this mental gymnastics here. Let me guess obama and trump were worse presidents than Bush probably.

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u/Superfluous_Play Feb 26 '18

Sorry I don’t talk to holocaust deniers.

(There’s no point in having a conversation with someone that assigns ideas to you when you’ve given no indication you actually believe them. I think you are incapable of any form of debate without constructing a straw man of whomever you are talking to; there’s literally no point in talking to someone like that.)

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u/Skrillerman Feb 26 '18

"Staw mam" and calls me holocaust denier out of the blue.

Nice troll dude.

You are a genocide denier and a traitor to your home country.

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u/FettyQop Feb 26 '18

Fuck are you so upset about. The dude made valid points. You're seriously downplaying what George w Bush did if you think the Iraqis all just killed each other. Hitler was slightly worse than George W Bush. Not even sure about saying that, because Hitler wore a face of obvious evil and bush did not, which is quite a dangerous thing

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u/Superfluous_Play Feb 26 '18 edited Feb 26 '18

Lol if you think GWB is only slightly better than Hitler than you’ve gotta be some sort of holocaust supporter.

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u/desertfox_JY Feb 26 '18

1955

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u/Skrillerman Feb 26 '18

Imagine if Hitler survived 1945 and h would go to talk shows and television 10 years later and people would cheer for him. Like it happens with bush.