In his death-row memoir, Rudolf Höss discussed the “many suicides” among the men of the Einsatzgruppen and those “who could no longer mentally endure wading in the bloodbath … [and] went mad.” He continued, “Most of the members of the Special Action Squads [i.e., Einsatzgruppen] drank a great deal to help get through this horrible work.”¹⁷

Likewise, SS colonel Paul Blobel, the commander of Sonderkommando 4a, who enjoyed his reputation as “‘an efficient killer of Jews’ as well as a ‘drunk and a monster,’” still attempted to place himself in the rôle of the victim by citing the “psychological trauma” of his experience, in which alcohol became a means for dealing with his participation in genocide.¹⁸

(Source.)

Nevertheless,

There was […] a notable lack of guilt among the top [Axis] leaders, but fear of retribution may well have prompted their suicides.

(Source.)

I have seen plausible claims that camp guards in particular were more suicidal, but I have no proof.

I thought that you wrote somewhere that you were indigenous (or ‘Latino’). I presumed that your brother would be, too.

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/will-climate-change-drive-humans-extinct-or-destroy-civilization

Another day, another lazy horseshoe theorist meme raking in thousands of updoots.

This is a perfect example of why I rarely pay attention to these topics anymore. Both the OP’s point and the comments therebelow follow the same script, and it is rare for anybody to show up citing scientific journals, interesting-sounding history books, or even amateur investigators like Moss Robeson.

I can understand other communists being angry at threads like that, but after you’ve seen them so many times you become desensitized and too exhausted to be angry. They’re all so boring.

wait seriously?

Yes. Seriously.

Trolling antisocialists is ridiculously easy. In 2019, I used one my prank caller accounts on Reddit to trick dozens of them into upvoting two sets of deliberately miscaptioned photographs. Some antisocialists have such ridiculously broad definitions of socialism that it is only a mild exaggeration to summarize their understandings as ‘capitalism = good things; socialism = bad things’.

Manipulating them into agreeing with fascists is not too difficult either. I am not referring to mundane, generic conclusions like ‘always follow your heart’ or ‘brushing your teeth is good for you’. I mean unambiguously political statements, like ‘Bolshevism could maintain its social illusion only because its deceived population lacked any opportunity for comparison.’

I remember ChapoTrapHouse, when it still existed on Reddit, ignorantly upvoting an anticommunist quote misattributed to a communist thinker, but if I remember correctly it was just some generic, inspirational crap that had little to do with politics. Sure, it was still careless of CTH to upvote that without researching, but it was much less impressive than the prankster thought that it was.

ETA: This was probably the quote, in which case it was only slightly more political than I remembered.

Creepy. It’s a good thing that I rarely download applications on my telephone, and the few that I do have seem to be unaffiliated with the apartheid state.

You know, The Shivah, that PC/cellphone adventure game that anybody can beat in only a couple hours… that’s done more for Jewish people, and the rest of the world, than all of these applications put together have… I’m just saying.

wtf I love the Republican Party now

Well, this comment could have aged better.

This is a bait account, right? Neofascists don’t make it a secret that they fucking hate transgender people (just like the Fascists did). Transgender communists are notoriously easy to find online too, and you can find transgender Jews and Muslims as well. Who is gullible enough to take this shit seriously?

I want to bet that this is a prank caller, but we know that the Yankee military (barely) allows transgender people to serve, so I can’t rush to conclude that this isn’t another petty bourgeois leatherneck either. In any event, I would not spend too much time monitoring this dork.

LGBT+

Trump chump

Whooooa, can’t have it both ways there, little buddy!

Serbo-Croatian. Apparently.

anti-antisemitism

One might even say… prosemitism.

Anyway, this is a good article but it overlooks a few other subjects, namely:

1. 75.3% of Europe’s Jewish refugees found refuge in the Soviet Union during World War II

2. The Red Army had the highest number of Jews of all the Allied armies

3. Lithuanian Jews welcomed the Red Army in 1940

4. The Soviets instituted the death penalty for possessing an antisemitic book

Most anticommunists shall, upon learning of these facts, be surer than ever before in their conviction that the Soviet Union was the most antisemitic country of all time.

Clickbait title. This is what the data really say:

More than half of Ukrainians support finding compromise in war are Russian trolls who just want Putin to win the war, annex Ukraine, and then genocide millions of European people with blue eyes and blond hair, 20% support continuing the fight

I promise that Russia will lose the war tomorrow.

Today I am thirty-one years old.

Herzlians will be more offended by this comment—likening their régime to the Third Reich—than they’ll be offended by the indisputable evidence of the IOF exterminating civilians.

The weird thing is that this guy could be a nontrinitarian Christian:

Asked whether he was ever victimized by a Christian, he replied no, and said his family is Christian and that he had a good childhood.

He could be a Judaist, but the issue is that murder is one of the three cardinal sins that Judaists must never commit, even at risk of death, and even if the victim’s beliefs are totally at odds with Judaism. This does not eliminate the possibility, though. In any case, I can imagine this news leading to a growth in anti-Judaism.

Feliz aniversário! Nasceste a três dias de mim!

https://angrywhitemen.org/category/topics/antisemitism

But at what cost?

Eoin O’Duffy, leader of the fascist-inspired and anti-Semitic Blueshirts in the early 1930s and a co-founder with James Dillon of Fine Gael, had spoken against Travellers, describing them as an ‘unworthy class’ at a Longford County Council meeting (Gmelch 1986: 53).

(Source.)