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Originally Posted by matteos
Have you ever been in a concentration camp? What would you do in circumstances like that? You don't know, nobody does. You live in a warm house with all the food and every comfort you would want. You dont live in shit with an armed guard who just shot your friend and gassed your neighbors. Nobody knows that situation unless you've lived it. Be thankful none of us have had to endure it.
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You don't know what anybody knows or doesn't know besides you. There are plenty of us old enough to have spent time with parents, relatives, or family friends who got out of a nazi camp with enough skin still on them to tell the story...with all the emotion...to a kid old enough to internalize exactly what they went through.
I heard the venom in Abe Kaplan's voice when talking about the Kapo's at Mauthausen. How they had their own rooms, warm clothes, decent food, and how he watched several of them beat other Jews to death to maintain their authority and keep their murderous fucking jobs. I can still feel the depth of his emotion in my gut right now just typing this.
So don't presume to tell anybody what they know or don't know.