• TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Whatever the publicly stated purpose of the camp, the SS men who arrived there on 11 May 1933 were left in no illusion as to its real purpose by the speech given on that day by Johann-Erasmus Freiherr von Malsen-Ponickau

    Comrades of the SS! You all know what the Fuehrer has called us to do. We have not come here for human encounters with those pigs in there. We do not consider them human beings, as we are, but as second-class people. For years they have been able to continue their criminal existence. But now we are in power. If those pigs had come to power, they would have cut off all our heads. Therefore we have no room for sentimentalism. If anyone here cannot bear to see the blood of comrades, he does not belong and had better leave. The more of these pig dogs we strike down, the fewer we need to feed.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp https://www.academia.edu/8942577

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          “if education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the opressor”

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          2 months ago

          A better way to say that (more accurate) is that abusers often learnt “how” through personal experience.

          The key point is not to look at someone who has been abused and think that they are likely going to become an abuser.