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jackanoodle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ministerialdirektor Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger of the Reich Chancellery: Who were those 30,000 [Jews] you say you shot, when you say, you shot?
  SS-Sturmbannführer Dr Rudolf Lange, Commander of the Sicherheitsdienst in Latvia: In Riga, Latvia. 27,800 I have some responsibility for. And stood by with my men and allowed Latvian civilians to kill in mobs. I received memos directing the – one would say evacuation of Jews – who, shot and buried in soil and corpses, managed to crawl out, still alive. Not exactly war, is it? And gas chambers about to come?
  Kritzinger: What gas chambers? Gas chambers?
  Lange: I hear rumors, yes.
  Kritzinger: This is more than war. Must be a different word for this.
  Lange: Try chaos.
  Kritzinger: Yes. The rest is argument, the curse of my profession.
  Lange: I studied law as well.
  Kritzinger: And how do you apply that education to what you do?
  Lange: It has made me distrustful of language. A gun means what it says.

  – Conspiracy 2001, based on the captured minutes of the Wannsee Conference

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