• viscacha@feddit.org
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    24 hours ago

    That is an accurate description of what happened then and now. The only difference still are death camps.

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        23 hours ago

        I was worried about this with CECOT but I think most everyone ended up being released from there? Does anyone know if other American deportees are still being held there?

        Unfortunately, I’ve seen very little reporting on other foreign prison camps, so I don’t know what the conditions there are like and who is being held vs released etc. I know some prisoners were released by Costa Rica and allowed to claim asylum there but I believe others are still being held.

        Someone in the media really needs to dig into this more. Or if anyone has seen such reporting, please link it.

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      They didn’t start with death camps, that came later when the camps were full and they needed a “final solution”

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        Historically death camps tend to start out as mere camps, but then suddenly they are full of people who are deemed unwanted anyway and keeping them alive is expensive and difficult so why bother.

        On its current trajectory there’s no US camp that shouldn’t be expected to turn into a death camp. And as others have pointed out, thousands “missing” from a huge, poorly managed camp in the middle of a swamp is worrying to say the least.

        Americans today are like Germans in the 30s, watching the trains roll by.

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        There were other reasons behind the switch. SS troops were beginning to become unhappy from shooting large numbers of people. Plus, it consumed a lot of ammunition. And they realized the large pits full of bodies would be found and the world would realize what they had done. The death camps solved all these problems and as bonus were much more efficient.