• thefartographer@lemm.ee
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          6 days ago

          Oh shoot, some of my family’s friends and neighbors from back in Poland were antisemites, though! And then they went along with letting my family members die in the ghettos or get taken to the concentration camps.

          Hmmm… Nevermind, fuck antisemites.

          ETA: one of my grandmother’s cousins and her mother were taken to Dachau where a high-ranking officer found them charming and attractive, so he gave them kitchen duties. This meant they had access to extra food and would sneak food into the barracks.

          When this was discovered, the officer’s supervisors made the officer punish them by giving them hard labor manufacturing boots. So they intentionally made the boots wrong, packed mismatched pairs, etc so that numerous German soldiers would suffer frostbite that winter when their boots failed.