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Today is celebrated as Holocaust Memorial Day. The date was chosen because the Red Army of the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945.
It is important to point out who did the liberating. - @freedomrideblog
It is important to point out who did the liberating. - @freedomrideblog
The US empire DID NOT defeat the Nazis. It hired them and ensured their ideology would be brought forward into the 21st century.
Read about Operation Paperclip. https://www.history.com/news/what-was-operation-paperclip
Oh yeah. Also this: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183060/hitlers-american-model
'Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes.'
Jim Crow wasn't the only inspiration. Indigenous genocide and settler-colonial expansion was too. https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/10/hitler-found-blueprint-german-empire-in-the-american-west/
If you don't deeply hate the US at this point we truly don't know what to tell you. Get your life together.
