There were other reasons behind the switch. SS troops were beginning to become unhappy from shooting large numbers of people. Plus, it consumed a lot of ammunition. And they realized the large pits full of bodies would be found and the world would realize what they had done. The death camps solved all these problems and as bonus were much more efficient.
They didn’t start with death camps, that came later when the camps were full and they needed a “final solution”
TomMasz@piefed.social 1 day ago
cabbage@piefed.social 1 day ago
Historically death camps tend to start out as mere camps, but then suddenly they are full of people who are deemed unwanted anyway and keeping them alive is expensive so why bother anyway.
On its current trajectory there’s no US camp that shouldn’t be expected to turn into a death camp. And as others have pointed out, thousands “missing” from a huge, poorly managed camp in the middle of a swamp is worrying to say the least.
Americans today are like Germans in the 30s, watching the trains roll by.