Status Updates From KL: A History of the Nazi C...

Sobering to be reading this on Holocaust Remembrance Day. And, important to remember that the atrocities did not appear over night, but rather, were slowly built: “many inmates were shocked. The Camp SS, they felt, had crossed a threshold. Prisoners knew their captors to be capable of heinous crimes, but few, it seems, had expected then to turn to systematic mass murder.

Not making me feel great about the state of the world currently

“‘You have to have order,’ one factory foreman told his son in spring 1933, regarding the arrests of left-wingers. Many followers also welcomed harsh measures in the early camps; the Left’s danger justified brutal means, they believed, and ‘terrorists’ deserved all the violence that came their way.”