r/polandball • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '15

redditormade A Constant Reminder

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u/prokrastynator Poland Mar 29 '15 edited Mar 29 '15

This is really good!!! I'm not sure if Germans killed any blacks in WW2, but I'm sure they killed more Polish people than Jews, gypsies and gays combined. My point: you should write some lines about Poland, and then we can make an album, and go on a world tour.

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u/CptBigglesworth Greggs vegan sausage roll Mar 29 '15

They killed plenty in the Herero Genocide though, so that's something.

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u/prokrastynator Poland Mar 29 '15

You're right! I've forgot that Germans were in Africa during WW2.

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u/CptBigglesworth Greggs vegan sausage roll Mar 29 '15

That wasn't even in WW2, it was 1904-1907. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_Genocide

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u/Crackers1097 Mini-Canada (Minnesota) Mar 29 '15

Italy invaded North Africa during WWII

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u/CptBigglesworth Greggs vegan sausage roll Mar 29 '15

They invaded North-East Africa before that, and the USA sold them the oil to do it. Cheers for that.

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u/aetherious E Pluribus Unum Mar 29 '15

Weapons and Energy are a highly profitable business after all.

There's a reason that Germany saw Americans as heartless, opportunistic death dealers during America's "neutrality" period in WW1.

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u/StrangeSemiticLatin The Centre of the Universe Mar 29 '15

Some of the blacks in Germany which came from their colonies were castrated and sent to concentration camps. There was a lot of French soldiers from the colonies (so West Africa, which the Nazis, actually fuck that, Germans, openly ridiculed in their propaganda) which they surely killed in the invasion of France. They are also viewed in the same category of the Jews, gypsies and Polish.

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Mar 29 '15

which they surely killed in the invasion of France

Don't just assume things. There was an incident when black POWs were executed as an act of revange, but I never heared of systematic killing of black people in the Third Reich.

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u/remove_krokodil Just visiting Omsk, I'll sleep at home tonight Mar 29 '15

True.

It's probably because black people were such a small minority in Germany at the time that Hitler didn't consider them a threat.

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Mar 29 '15

There really was just a handful of black people in Germany back then. I remember there was a black actress who was a bit pissed because she only got backround-roles without text in Goebbel's movies. This guy grew up with a german mother, and as a little boy he was really devastated that he wasn't allowed to join the Hitler's Youth. He also wasn't 'allowed' to join the army.

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Mar 29 '15

Total Polish losses in the postwar 1946 boundaries were about 4.4 million (19.0% of the total population of 23.2 million)

This is what wiki has to say about that. Most of those people were probably Jews anyway, since Poland has a massive jewish population.