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soryualeksi · 2 years

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Literally the absolute most mind-bogglingly "I'm going to fucking SCREAM" aspect about talking any family history at all with fellow Germans is everyone insisting that they were the ONE family with no nazis on the entire fucking, oh wait no, all of their families' neighbours ALSO weren't nazis, and their village and their town and literally it was always just the others and THEY didn't notice anything was off and ALSO they were against everything FROM THE BEGINNING and also like, the Holocaust just carried itself out quietly in some far-far away unnoticeable piece of remote forest or something.

It's driving me insane.

Nobody knew, but EVERYONE was in the resistance. Also, SIMULTANEOUSLY, they all knew BUT were incapable of doing anything because they feared for their own lives every second, from the very beginning of course.

#found out people in my great grandparents generation of my family kept Zwangsarbeiter #that means kidnapped slaves from the invaded territories #that were worked to death and their kids who could not work were taken from them and murdered #they were used and abused everywhere in the system in every industry #everyone knew about them #but now i found concrete proof about specific individuals kept by members of my family #to abuse in their family business #and when i try to find out more all around me i get slammed with #'you know germans had no choice but to TAKE the Zwangsarbeiter ASSIGNED to them by force and at least it was better than KZ'#no I'm pretty sure they thought it was super convenient to get slaves hand delivered to them #I'm sure so don't give me that bullshit #i need to get to the documents because I HAVE to find out more #or rather #i WANT to find out more #I'm sick of people rather telling themselves lies than being helpful #holocaust cw #slavery cw #nazi germany #germany where nobody knew but was in the resistance but everybody knew but didn't dare fight back #fuck you #german stuff #genocide cw

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