by ‪Nick Anderson

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    27 days ago

    I know that we knew that they were rounding people up, we were certainly getting enough refugees to know they were running from oppression. And if they were rounding people up, they were putting them somewhere.

    I just didn’t know that the term Concentration Camp was being applied that early.

    I also knew that they were rounding up Trade Unionists (commies), and Jews of course, but Catholics? We often hear about how many Jews died, and other groups likes gays and Roma, but how many Catholics died?

    Never mind, I know how to use Google, and it the answer is unclear. They certainly targeted Catholic priests, who comprised the largest number of clergy interned in some camps. They mostly targeted priests in occupied countries like Poland, but German priests weren’t safe either. It is very unclear how many Catholic citizens were killed by the Nazis, but it is probably significant number, but most of them seem to have been killed in mop-ups of villages, rather than in the camps.

    Those Nazis really sucked, in case that isn’t obvious.