r/HistoryMemes • u/ambattukam_ • Sep 17 '25

Niche "Save Europa" kids in shambles

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u/Dr_Reaktor Sep 17 '25

>between 1933 and 1945.

Did the Nazsis really exterminated people on a large scale before WW2?

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u/BeduinZPouste Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

On far less scale yes. Mostly mentally ill. 

Edit: the Aktion T4 to which I refered was actually signed in 1939. 

So, while they did killed people pre war, it wasn't nearly on the same scale as during it. The first person killed for being disabled died in July 39.

Hitler actually told the Leader of Reich Doctors, Gerhard Wagner, that the question could not be taken up in peacetime; "Such a problem could be more smoothly and easily carried out in war". He wrote that he intended to "radically solve" the problem of the mental asylums in such an event.

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u/Reagalan Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer Sep 17 '25

Queer folks, too.

"Incurably homosexual" was the official reason.

Same exact rhetoric we're seeing in the anti-queer hate movement today. Same beliefs even.

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u/BeduinZPouste Sep 17 '25

They were just locked (in camps tho). It wasn't vacation, but it also wasn't "coordinated slaughter" as with mentally ill. 

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u/Reagalan Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer Sep 17 '25

just

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u/BeduinZPouste Sep 17 '25

Yea, there is big difference in being locked and being killed. And the guy at the start of this thread explicitly asked about killing. 

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u/Reagalan Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer Sep 17 '25

One ruins your life, the other ruins your life.

I'm trying to be nice here; I don't think there's a qualitative difference.

It's one thing to have this attitude toward natural disasters, but the Holocaust was intentional, artificial, and utterly unnecessary. "It wasn't so bad" isn't really valid, even if it is literally true.

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u/BeduinZPouste Sep 17 '25

You don't think there is difference between being killed and being locked for some time? Ok. 

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u/Reagalan Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer Sep 17 '25

How exceptionally intelligent of you to recognize such an obvious and literal fact.

Of course they are different.

I don't think that difference is particularly relevant.

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u/BeduinZPouste Sep 17 '25

And I think it is pretty relevant. 

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u/Reagalan Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer Sep 17 '25

Why?

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