Happy Dachau Day!

[Silent_Bob]

Dachau the original and model concentration camp opened exactly 80 years ago, on March 22, 1933.

The press statement given at the opening stated:

    On Wednesday the first concentration camp is to be opened in Dachau with an accommodation for 5000 people. 'All Communists and—where necessary—Reichsbanner and Social Democratic functionaries who endanger state security are to be concentrated here, as in the long run it is not possible to keep individual functionaries in the state prisons without overburdening these prisons, and on the other hand these people cannot be released because attempts have shown that they persist in their efforts to agitate and organize as soon as they are released.

[Jim Johnson]

Their intentions were plain.

[Tom Sawyer]

They are just trying to keep us safe, for goodness sake. Plus, think of all the jobs created.

[Jim Johnson]

Reichsbanner - people who honored the old flag and the constitution.

[blackie]

Nazis didn't invent the concentration camp.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps

[Jim Johnson]

Nazis didn't invent the concentration camp.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps

I agree, that was the United States, but Dauchau was purpose built to kill the large number of people who were sent there.
That was a new thing, and a huge step over a moral line.

[Tom Sawyer]

Nazis didn't invent the concentration camp.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps

I agree, that was the United States, but Dauchau was purpose built to kill the large number of people who were sent there.
That was a new thing, and a huge step over a moral line.

But, it was an efficient tyranny... Through slave labor and melting down the gold from their mouths they were able to keep costs down. Republicans had little to complain about...  'Well, they aren't using much taxpayer money!'

[Free libertarian]

Henceforth this effect shall be known as the Milgrammy effect.    I have decreed it and  I have special papers giving me the right to make decrees.  Wait a minute, where's my damn reading glasses?  Oh, degrees, the brownie box says 350* DEGREES.  Okay never mind...this time. 

[Jim Johnson]

Special papers?  ...like parchment papers?

[Tom Sawyer]

Henceforth this effect shall be known as the Milgrammy effect.    I have decreed it and  I have special papers giving me the right to make decrees.  Wait a minute, where's my damn reading glasses?  Oh, degrees, the brownie box says 350* DEGREES.  Okay never mind...this time.

He's got 2 brain cells left and they ain't talking' to each other.   

[blackie]

Nazis didn't invent the concentration camp.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps

I agree, that was the United States, but Dauchau was purpose built to kill the large number of people who were sent there.
That was a new thing, and a huge step over a moral line.

Dauchau wasn't an extermination camp.

[Russell Kanning]

I wonder if they have any concentration plans here in the USA.
tons of people being detained .... some of them make anti government plans

[KBCraig]

Dauchau wasn't an extermination camp.

While perhaps it wasn't intended as such, there were 32,000 documented deaths there, and unknown thousands beyond that. The ovens worked overtime, and there's a huge mass grave.

It's one of the most sobering sites I've ever seen in person.

[Russell Kanning]

thousands just doing their jobs