#holocause

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Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hated

Someone recommended the documentary film, Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hated, from Netflix, in the notes to that post about JKR's holocaust denialism. It is so, so worth watching.

It's about the culture and people of the lgbtq+ communities in pre-WWII Germany - especially those who frequented the Eldorado club and/or were involved in the Institute for Sexology before the rise of Hitler - and what happened to them once the Nazis came to power.

It starts off as a really wonderful celebration of the sanctuary and sense of changing times and possibilities created by these wonderful, vibrant people. It includes footage of the first trans women to undergo gender-affirming surgery - three smiling trans women, in colour, from nearly 100 years ago. In some cases, there are even interviews with people who survived from that time.

Obviously, sadly, unforgiveably, it does not last. And the documentary tells you far more than I have ever heard before about what exactly happened to LGBTQ+ people over that period of time.

This includes not just gay men and trans women, but lesbians, poly, non-binary, and bisexual folk. And how this related to the Nazis' general philosophies.

It is crucial to understand that the reason terfism and fascism are such close buddies is that their gender ideology (hah! They actually have one) centres around a woman's role being to breed a pure, Aryan race. So they must only sleep with their husbands, they must not remove themselves from the breeding pool by sleeping with each other, and similarly men have a duty to sire children (if they are of good breeding stock), so sleeping with other men, spreading their 'seed' indescriminately, or taking on the characteristics associated with women - all that threatens the central Nazi thesis that they must create and protect the 'superior' race.

This is why transphobia is and always will be gender essentialism, sexism, and racism bundled up in a trench coat, waiting to spill out. Because of the Nazi roots.

But don't listen to me. If you have the spoons and it would not be too triggering for you, I really recommend watching it.

One of the interviewees, who was a teenager who was falling in love with another boy as the Nazis came to power, tells the story of how they became separated, and how he eventually learned his first love died of starvation in a concentration camp. I wanted to get the exact quote down, but Netflix started playing up when I paused it, so I will just say that he said the reason he wanted to be interviewed was for his lost love, Lumpi. So that Lumpi would be remembered.

For those of us who are able, I think we have a duty to learn about and remember those wonderful, lively people who went before us, and who were cruelly taken away.

The Nazis wanted to erase lgbtq+ people from history. And we can resist that. We can remember.

Obviously content warnings for Nazis, the holocaust, genocide, death, homophobia, transphobia, and footage from concentration camps. It is handled, in my opinion, very well, but may still be difficult to watch. And many of the interviews are in German, so disabled people like me who struggle with subtitles may find it quite draining. But you can pause and watch in chunks.

[girlactionfigure]

Where I grew up in Yemen, they never taught us about the Holocaust. If anyone asked about it, they were told: "The Holocaust didn't happen, it's just Jewish propaganda. But we wish it did happen." 

I learned about the Holocaust when I moved to Sweden when I was 20 years old. 

Sadly, this venomous hatred toward Jews is manifested in the majority of Arabic and Muslim homes today, even in the West. 

The same people who learn that "the Holocaust didn't happen, but we wish it did" are the same people who deny or minimize the massacre of October 7.

The same people who learn that "the Holocaust didn't happen, but we wish it did" are the same people who believe that Hamas are "freedom fighters." 

The same people who learn that "the Holocaust didn't happen, but we wish it did" are the same people who call Jews "genocidal" today. 

The same people who learn that "the Holocaust didn't happen, but we wish it did" are the same people who don't understand why the Jews have the right to defend themselves.

Luai Ahmed

[spoofymcgee]

it's holocaust remembrance day. this is dedicated to franceska mann, one of the best and brightest polish ballerinas of her time. i can't–it's impossible to comprehend so much pointless tragedy. i chose to focus on one aspect: a rising star of a dancer who was killed, among millions of others, for no reason other than senseless fucking hatred.

minutes and seconds, snow and embers: inspired by the story of franceska mann

When she is very young, time unfolds before her in measures of minutes and seconds, as is the way of small children. 

She has a distant, nebulous understanding of the future but not as such that she can see herself in it. 

She learns about ballet when her mother takes her to see the dancers, and tugs on her coat sleeve until she bends down to hear Franceska whisper that one day she will be like them, sparkling and effervescent and floating. 

Her first pair of ballet shoes are heavy in her small hands. She holds them for hours and hours before the class, where the teacher shows her how to break them in.

She doesn't want to, likes the way the silk looks uncreased and unbroken. When she doesn't start to fold the shoe, the girl sitting next to her gets impatient and takes it from her, crushing it in half harshly.

Franceska learns to break in her own shoes, but she never stops hesitating for a moment to admire the smoothness before the break. 

She dances in her first pair of shoes until they're fraying and near falling apart and then sets them in a box under her bed amid the tissue paper they were wrapped in when her mother gave them to her. 

She opens it once, after the first big show she dances, hundreds of eyes watching her every movement. Her bare shoulders had been cold even as she'd floated through the air and the colors had blurred as she'd spun faster and faster. She strokes the greying threads and tells herself that she will see them again only when she is the best ballerina in all of Poland–the silly musings of a teenager.

As she watches the house she great up in disappear from the back of a shoddy wooden wagon, she wishes, incongruously, that she'd opened the box one last time. 

Franceska has danced every day of her life since she was small and she does so in the ghetto, even as her body withers and her bones hurt incessantly and her gleaming hair dulls. 

She doesn't stop dancing until she's standing out in the snow, shivering in her thin shift and pressed shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of other women. 

She tells herself that they will get out, that she will have a stage again, hold a barre and not a wall as she practices, will look in the mirrors again and see herself, not this bone-thin creature she sees looking down at herself. She will have years, because she's going to become the best ballerina in Poland.

She is tall enough to see over their heads and farther on ahead, past the disinfectant chambers, she can see smoke. Something is burning. 

She looks around at the terrified faces around her, listens to the soft, quiet sobs hiding under the howling of the wind and the shouting of the guards. The hair on the back of her neck pricks up, and not from the cold.

She drifts to the edge of the crowd as she's staring and by chance catches the eyes of one of the guards.

The moment their eyes lock she can smell the smoke and suddenly she is very young again and life unrolls in minutes and seconds and what is burning is her future and she has two choices: she can fall silent and still and do what she's told or she can spark a match. 

She stares into the flat, dark eyes of the guard, set in a pale, cold face, and smiles, sharp and sweet, the same and different as every smile she has ever performed in before. 

She floats closer to him, the entire world coming into a sharp sort of clarity: she is sparkling and effervescent and her shoulders are cold when she bares them from her shift. 

He lifts his pistol but lazily, using it to prod at her collarbone. He says something, but it's lost in the wailing of the wind and the rushing in her ears. 

She tilts her head, exposing her neck and letting him drift the gun up her throat and laughs, high and bright. She puts every ounce of joy she can remember into it because it will be her last laugh and she wants to make it count.

She smiles and moves slowly and sensually until his guard is down enough and he laughs too, and then, with speed hard-won over the years, grabs the barrel of the gun and twists. 

It's out of his hands before he can blink and she nearly fumbles it because it's heavy in her hands. The metal of the stock is smooth like silk but the snow around them is broken up by creases of heavy footsteps and so she doesn't hesitate before aiming the gun at his chest. 

It kicks back as it fires, again and again and again. 

When she falls into the snow her blood dyes it, a blooming red with familiar pink at the edges. 

Around her there are cries and screams, bodies surging forward towards the guards. 

Franceska is colder than she has ever been but fire blooms in her chest and she closes her eyes, and the curtain falls, heavy and warm and red like velvet, or embers. 

[xbuster]

I’m seeing “lefties” on Twitter engage in Holocaust denial because they think that makes them on the side of the Palestinians. I’m killing myself so I never have to see terminally online 21-year-olds ever again.

[houseofpurplestars]

....bro where are y'alls apologies for engaging in Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism? Oh Palestinians dont deserve apologies? Ok.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Silencing the Nakba has helped frame the Zionist takeover of Palestine as a legitimate reward for victimhood rather than an act of colonialism consciously projected along European lines, and intended to support Western hegemony over the Arab east. The power of Holocaust commemoration suppresses not only the Nakba but also the causal connection between the Holocaust and the Nakba, just as a building constructed over another buries the history embedded in the first. Indeed, the siting of Israel's extensive Holocause museum, the Yad Vashem, on the lands of the Palestinian village of Dayr Yasin, renders its history of massacre and ruin invisible to all but those who already know it.

Rosemary Sayigh, Oral History in Palestinian Studies

[xclowniex]

So you’ve probably heard of the Jory Micah person on Twitter who is just a full on, mask-off Nazi… well recently, she made a tweet basically saying that the Holocaust was a collaboration between Nazis and Zionist Jews to kill Anti-Zionist Jews in Europe??? So that Zionist Jews would have an excuse to go to Palestine???? And she was 100% serious about it, too

I have not heard of Jory Micah.

God her twitter is digusting. She is a right wing nut job, if anyone wants a laugh go look at her twitter.

The thing with the holocause is that Nazi's hated all jews and wanted to kill all jews. They did not care if a person was a "good jew" or "bad jew". The only "good jew" to them was a dead jew.

[redvelvetwishtree]

Opened my inbox to see angry anons crying over some post where comparisons between Netanyahu and Hitler were drawn. How quick they are to jump to using words like 'holocause denier' and 'nazi' and whatever else. They choose to focus on such pointless things that don't matter one bit when you actually see what is happening in Palestine. No one cares about your policing anymore.

The scale of Palestinian genocide is similar and in some ways worse than what Hitler did in terms of numbers. Not sure why you all expect the world to talk about things only as you see fit. We're done catering to your versions of political correctness. In fact it sounds like you don't care about human rights as much as you like to pretend.

And some people use the Hitler comparison because 1. The statistics are very comparable and 2. That seems to make some people understand the situation more.

The internet is swarmed with horrific pictures of children without limbs, rotting babies, extremely emaciated starved people, Israelis shooting at old and young people, and extreme extreme evidence that leaves you sick just to look at. And you fucking come with your age old policing about how we're supposed to talk about it?????

I can't understand how one can have the energy and mindset to be theoretical and nitty picky with how we discuss the genocide when just following it on social media is soooo draining and depressing. We're not denying the holocaust you idiots...it's you who's denying what's happening nowadays.

[nahobinobrunestud]

Starting to think a lot of americans would defend hitler if he was american and hollywood made a movie about him being an uwu sad boy played by a conventionay attractive actor who felt very very bad about the holocause you guys so you shouldn't be mean to him >:(((((((

[realspacejunk]

I have recently seen a lot of these videos showing ai art of 'X as 80's dark fantasy movie'. One of them was "Pokemon as an 80's Jim Henson Film" [1]. Some of the creatures there were almost not recognizable, and all of them looked like the creepy muppets from the Dark Crystal show. Of course they were all little magical creatures in DnD gear because 80's.

This made me think. What would a pokemon movie made by Guillermo del Toro look like? His style is legendary. The muppets and creatures in his movies (thise which I have seen) look so grotesque and gritty, the angels in his movies have this massive amount of eyes on them for example (see Hellboy and Pinocchio) and the plot often has occult and Nazi elements. His recent Pinocchio movie has Fascists in it and made them relevant to the plot.

Imagine him doing a pokemon film with muppets/stop motion and somehow make it include nazi cults. Like, idk, make a Mystery Dungeon movie that somehow deals with the Holocause or some crazy shit.

Bruh.

[1] Video source, by FilmsThatNeverExisted, Dez. 29. 2022

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Ok, gonna get real spoilery with this one... so Holocause... doesn't even show up until Age of Apocalypse... and then he doesn't come back to the main 616 until the end of that crossover... but this makes it sound like he is a dude who had just been chilling here the whole time... also he will not look like this the next time we see him, but that is like almost three years from now.

[newsfromstolenland]

Apparently there were a lot of underground Neo Nazis in East Germany, and East Germany didn’t learn as much or have as much education as West Germans did before the holocaust. There were some racist riots in 2015 and 2018 in Germany. The far right grew in power since the Syrian refugee crisis in Germany. Here is another article about Neo Nazis in East Germany: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/neo-nazi-eastern-chemnitz-germany-saxony Anyway, the amount of Neo Nazis in America and Germany in the 2010s is disturbing. I hope Germany doesn’t become like Nazi Germany again, nor America. I know Nazi Germany was inspired by how Americans and Canadians by how they treated Native people on reservations. And some racist laws in America like against interracial marriage

absolutely they're taught a watered down version of the holocaust, as are we

we don't learn that hitler modeled his concentration camps after specifically canadian residential schools (not that the usa didn't have them, but hitler specified canada)

we don't learn that canada turned away jewish refugees fleeing from the holocause

we don't learn that orthodox jewish people in particular were targeted

fast forward to today, you're talking about neo nazis in germany and the united states. absolutely that's a chronic issue, and (in keeping with my blog) let's talk about neo-nazis in canada

the proud boys are a neo-nazi group started right here in the canada. I've stood face to face with soldiers of odin when they showed up at protests. the kkk exists here, synagogues and masjids are often vandalized, cops shoot black people.

if you go into a bar in canada that's all white people and isn't super fancy, I guarantee you'll see some nazi ink. I've walked into bars, spotted some tattoos, and walked right back out.

basically, I agree with everything youre saying about germany and states. just don't forget that it's true for canada as well.

[glitter-lace-and-mace]

My friend just posted these on fb. Ew. What the fuck marshalls? Holocause chic? No thanks. Fuck ugly and antisemetic.

[hellyeahheroes]

Subverting the Narrative | Holocause Denial and the Lost Cause by Knowing Better

[keirartworks]

Earth Day, 2am

China, made from clay deposits in northern Czechoslovakia, close to the German border. From the earth, these fine, fragile things are fired, glazed and gilded, then bought by people who wish to make a ceremony of visiting over coffee. Add the story of the Paris Accords, then WWII, concentration camps, confiscation of shares, the holocaust… intergenerational trauma. These fragile, gentle pieces…

[astraphel]

Today, January 27th, is the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.