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In reply to the discussion: Holy Crap - Mitt runs a death camp for troubled teens! [View all]Flatulo
(5,005 posts)this one is extra-special.
The Nazis employed their top engineers and scientists at the task of inventing completely new and more efficient methods for exterminating human beings en mass. They invented new poison gases, like Zyclon, because carbon monoxide was too weak. They employed architects and engineers surveyors and builders to clear the land, design camps, layout ingress and egress roads, build disposal ovens, and developed an entire infrastructure around the business of the extermination of living souls.
They did all this work - spent millions of Deutschmarks - because their stated goal was the the annihilation of an entire race. They set to the task like we set to the task of going to the moon. They had schedules, budgets, progress reports. People were hird and fired and promoted and demoted based on how well they performed at reaching the goal of annihilation of the Jewish people.
Since there were so many Jews, literally tens of millions scattered throuoghout Europe, this was a really, really big job. But because the Germans were such clever, industrious and hard-working people, they did a pretty darn good job of it.
So tell me again how the accidental death of a youth by under-trained and underpaid workers compares to the death camps. I'm just dying to understand this.