Remember, kiddos. They teach us that everyone was surprised by the camps AFTERwards.
Pretending like the world didn’t know.
The concentration camps changed over time and also who they were intended to for. I think the “surprise” was often more about the death camps, not the “regular” concentration camps. This photo is from 1936, one year after the Nuremberg Laws and two years before the 1938 November pogroms. At this point the concentration camps were mostly used for political enemies (social democrats, communists,…) and undesireables (homeless people, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, “criminals”,…). The death camps that were established to exterminate Jews were created in 1941, the gas chambers followed in 1942 after the Wannsee Conference.
Oh man, the good old days. Nowadays ICE would just shoot the guy with the sign.
he’s even calling the guy he doesn’t like hitler
I bet he wouldn’t even say Thank You
He was asking for it, so yeah, you’d expect a thank you for your service right? These antifa terrorists have no respect for abject totalitarian authority and suppression of free speech. Pfff Socialists.
Wouldn’t even need a sign.
Welllllllll if he had an AIPAC shirt on, he might get a pass now that I think of it.
Who designed these? That is some A level font design. It looks so time appropriate. The styling is suspiciously good looking.
Edit: PugJesus always has the best posts.
My grandma was a sign and letter painter back in the day. She made a good living doing it up until about the 80s or 90s. It’s one of those professions that just sort of faded into nonexistence.
It was replaced by computers and wide format printers. Some of the larger shops retooled and no longer needed dozens of sign painters, since a computer/printer could be operated by one person, while shops that couldn’t afford the new tech eventually closed.
Yeah nobody designs signs anymore
They’re a riff on the Art Deco fonts of the 1930s.
The trump administration’s only regret is that they weren’t around then to deport these Jewish people. They would’ve loved that shit.
Funnily enough, the Jew are kind of the cause for a big schism in maga currently. On one side you have the conspiracy nuts who are actually antisemitic and on the other side you have the idiots who followed Israel into the Iran war.
This meme gets me every time
I mean I thought it was funny
How come I can never see this meme without immediately thinking “What’s in the box…what’s in the boooooxxxx?”
In 1936? They knew already that they were torturing Jews to death?
The burning of the Reichstag was in 1933 so yes, they knew Jews were the target. Not the camps part but that was the “we knew they were monsters but not THAT kind of monsters” part.
It wasn’t as systemic as it would become. It was more like brutal paramilitaries with no independent oversight being used for ‘law enforcement’ on ‘undesirables’, no official recourse against abuses while in custody, stochastic terrorism, and an increasingly hostile environment of legal restriction and disability.
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Huh. Can’t quite put my finger on it but…
Mein Kampf was published in 1925. The Reichstag Fire Decree was enacted in 1933. Any Jew who was aware of the book at the time Hitler seized power knew they were in grave peril. Anyone who publicly opposed Hitler was arrested within hours or days of the decree. Since Hitler’s book named all Jews as his enemies, it was all you needed to know to get the hell out of Germany before you were arrested.
Man, that lettering is on point. 👌
The swastika is reversed. Clearly he’s a fraud!
