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You were taught that every Jew killed in the camps was herded through gas chambers believing they were taking a shower?
I learned that was how a lot of them were killed (I couldn't tell you the numbers, I'd have to look up what non-denialist historians think it is now) but I was never told literally millions were gassed by deception.
Do you really, honestly, not see a difference nce between these statements?
Okay, I will rephrase:
You were taught that millions of Jews were herded through gas chambers believing they were taking a shower? Or is the "herded like sheep" line you are taking issue with? Wandering already covered this pretty well: the conventional narrative is that millions of Jews were indeed gassed, and probably most of them knew what was happening. (Argue as you wish about coordination problems and why that happened.) SS is trying to make it sound silly by claiming that this narrative is that they all just tralalaed into what they thought were showers.
Yeah, pretty a much. Every trip to a concentration camp museum focused on elaborate descriptions of the unusually cruel and/or underhanded methods of execution. They were very much attempting to paint a picture that this was representative of the Holocaust writ large.
This wouldn't be the first time in the history of man that a ruling regime thought "the commonfolk are too simpleminded to grasp the nuances of the truth, so we have to teach it in a form they can digest", nor would it be the first time that subversives exploited that to turn those among the commonfolk who can grasp the nuances against the regime. When the latter is happening, a reaction like "no one serioisly believes that", is possibly the worst response you can have.
Okay, I cannot say what your schooling was like. Maybe I am wrong that "no one seriously believes that" but I don't think that is a serious historical claim. Millions of Jews murdered, yes, Millions of Jews murdered with gas, yes. Millions of Jews who all thought they were taking showers, it obviously couldn't work, even in one camp. (Thousands go in, no one comes out, do the guards just tell everyone else they were loaded into buses in back and sent to another camp? Just the first of many logistical problems that make this obviously implausible.)
Is this what normies out in the world believe? I dunno.
For what it's worth, my recollection from high school was broadly, "millions of Jews were killed, these are some of the ways in which it was done", and gas chambers were just one of the methods listed.
You know, this might not be far off from how I was taught, I don't think they literally said "this is how a representative sample of the Holocaust victims were executed". The problem is that the "just one of the methods listed" approach meant that it was indeed a list, a grotesque parade of man's cruelty to man that is now seared into my mind. It doesn't help that it included things that "no one seriously thinks they happened" like soaps, lampshades, showers, and euthanasia trucks.
Why is this something that "no one seriously thinks happened"?
I mean, this happens to this day.
Please explain.
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