"...why waste the ink tattooing things youre 'going to kill'inside the place youre going to 'kill' them?"
Said this the very first time I heard about the tattoos.
"Now let me me make sure that I have this straight. Why would the Germans, a people renowned for their ruthless efficiency, waste any of the time or effort to tattoo numbers on jews that were supposedly just going to be gassed and burned that very day?"
As part of the plan to claim persecution, jews concocted this scheme to tattoo those numbers on their own arms. A few rabbis would travel around to synagogues in eastern Europe before and during the war to administer them to volunteers. But even they didn't believe anyone would fall for the six million number, so they only went with 5 digits. That's why they all look so crappy. If the Germans would have done it, they would be precise, uniform, and probably on their foreheads.
Occam's Razor. Those German kindergartners sorry Nazis started at #6,000,000 and worked backwards. Only the lowest numbers survived by moonwalking backwards from the showers.
[ + ] i_scream_trucks
[ - ] i_scream_trucks 8 points 3 daysJun 1, 2025 21:44:18 ago (+8/-0)
Im yet to see a number that looks like a tattoo.
Come to think of it.... why waste the ink tattooing things youre 'going to kill'inside the place youre going to 'kill' them?
Marking something with a label implies long term storage/management, not walking them from a train to a selection to a gas chamber.
[ + ] BulletStopper
[ - ] BulletStopper 0 points 2 daysJun 3, 2025 10:47:09 ago (+0/-0)
Said this the very first time I heard about the tattoos.
"Now let me me make sure that I have this straight. Why would the Germans, a people renowned for their ruthless efficiency, waste any of the time or effort to tattoo numbers on jews that were supposedly just going to be gassed and burned that very day?"
[ + ] xmasskull
[ - ] xmasskull 7 points 3 daysJun 1, 2025 19:12:01 ago (+7/-0)
[ + ] racerxist
[ - ] racerxist 6 points 3 daysJun 1, 2025 19:34:39 ago (+6/-0)
[ + ] NoRefunds
[ - ] NoRefunds 4 points 3 daysJun 2, 2025 02:43:22 ago (+4/-0)
[ + ] Puller_of_Noses
[ - ] Puller_of_Noses 5 points 3 daysJun 1, 2025 19:58:40 ago (+5/-0)
A few rabbis would travel around to synagogues in eastern Europe before and during the war to administer them to volunteers. But even they didn't believe anyone would fall for the six million number, so they only went with 5 digits. That's why they all look so crappy. If the Germans would have done it, they would be precise, uniform, and probably on their foreheads.
[ + ] WanderingToast
[ - ] WanderingToast 2 points 3 daysJun 2, 2025 04:11:15 ago (+2/-0)
Tbh i think a lot of the moody stuff that happened at the camps was down to the stanford experiment and that there really was fuck all oversight.
[ + ] ilikeskittles
[ - ] ilikeskittles 3 points 3 daysJun 2, 2025 10:01:31 ago (+3/-0)
[ + ] 2plus2equals5
[ - ] 2plus2equals5 3 points 3 daysJun 1, 2025 22:42:34 ago (+3/-0)
Those German kindergartners sorry Nazis started at #6,000,000 and worked backwards.
Only the lowest numbers survived by moonwalking backwards from the showers.
[ + ] CoronaHoax
[ - ] CoronaHoax 1 point 3 daysJun 1, 2025 21:21:49 ago (+1/-0)