this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
382 points (97.5% liked)

Political Weirdos

597 readers
920 users here now

A community dedicated to the weirdest people involved in politics.

founded 1 month ago
MODERATORS
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
382
Bread-loving weirdo lets his fascist flag fly. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/political_weirdos@lemmy.world
59 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

https://www.mediaite.com/news/tucker-carlson-starstruck-by-historian-who-calls-churchill-not-hitler-the-chief-villain-of-ww2-and-casts-holocaust-as-accident/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 102 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Here's Darryl Cooper, obvious Nazi, lying to justify the Holocaust, unedited so nobody can accuse me of bias:

You know, Germany, look, they put themselves into a position in Adolf Hitler’s chiefly responsible for this, but his whole regime is responsible for it, that when they went into the east in 1941, they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners, and so forth that they were going to have to handle. They went in with no plan for that and they just threw these people into camps. And millions of people ended up dead there. You know, you have, you have like letters as early as July, August 1941 from commandants of these makeshift camps that they’re setting up for these millions of people who were surrendering or people they’re rounding up and they’re- so it’s two months after, a month or two after Barbarossa was launched, and they’re writing back to the high command in Berlin saying, “We can’t feed these people, we don’t have the food to feed these people.” And one of them actually says ‘Rather than wait for them all to slowly starve this winter, wouldn’t it be more humane to just finish them off quickly now?"

That's Darryl "the Holocaust was Humane" Cooper, ladies and gentlemen.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wow, that s load of crap. That vast, vast majority of murdered Jews were civilians, not surrendering opponents. They rounded up people from their own cities. Disgusting.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're telling me that they're not considered prisoners of war if they're just random civilians you picked up and shoved into camps because of the color of their skin/ way of life/ cultural affiliation of their mothers? This is ridiculous, who else would that refer to then? /s so much /s

[–] Malidak@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I mean. Prisoners of war rarely committed any actual crimes right? And I can definitely imagine the Nazis using that term in official documents. Would be stupid otherwise. I think there is a book, the bureaucracy of murder, that talks about those euphemismic language in brutal states. I can also imagine some officers in those camps actually being concerned with feeding the people (or handling the other prisoners watching their comrades die of hunger), just not out of empathy. And finally, it's just really stupid to take those letters and make a case for the Holocaust being an accident, wtf.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It seems that he is deliberately conflating the Holocaust with the deaths (due mainly to exposure, famine, and disease) of three million Soviet prisoners of war (out of six million captured).

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners, and so forth that they were going to have to handle. They went in with no plan for that and they just threw these people into camps.

I'd like to put him on the spot and get him to flesh out that "and so forth". It's carrying a lot of weight there.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 weeks ago

Dude, you know how it is. You're enjoying some Wagner music and the next thing happens naturally: you're invading Poland and genociding 6 millions people.

And of course the funny thing is that the genocide starts even before the stated cause, very curious indeed. This shit happens all the time.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago

Holy fucking shit that is bad.

There's zero fucking excuse for that. It's just straight up holocaust denial.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

From an essay about Auschwitz, written by [Rudolf Höss,] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_H%C3%B6ss?wprov=sfla1) the commandant of Auschwitz, written after his capture:

"I myself never knew the total number, and I have nothing to help me arrive at an estimate.

I can only remember the figures involved in the larger actions, which were repeated to me by Eichmann or his deputies.

From Upper Silesia and the General Gouvernement 250,000

Germany and Theresienstadt 100,000

Holland 95,000

Belgium 20,000

France 110,000

Greece 65,000

Hungary 400,000

Slovakia 90,000 [Total 1,130,000]

I can no longer remember the figures for the smaller actions, but they were insignificant by comparison with the numbers given above. I regard a total of 2.5 million as far too high. Even Auschwitz had limits to its destructive capabilities."

Even THE FUCKING COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ, writing no doubt in his own defense while awaiting trial, basically said "Oh, I couldn't have possibly murdered more than 1.13 million people at my personal death factory!"

What a Nazi fucking prick. Both of them.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Clearly that Auschwitz head guard was a communist crisis actor!

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Jesus... Nothing he said was right. Let me guess, Tucker didn't challenge him on any of it, did he?

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno, my brain shut down at some point.