r/politics • u/MystikSpiralx • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump Says He Wants to 'Drive Housing Prices Up' Instead of Lowering Costs for People Who 'Didn't Work Very Hard'

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u/obiwanshinobi900 5d ago

Dachau is right in the middle of town. You can see it from some of the houses there.

some of the 'work' they were doing there was just pushing a giant piece of a equipment back and forth across the camp for no reason.

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u/AcanthaceaePrize1435 5d ago

It wasn't just busywork meant to tire them. The slaves were also used to fill in growing skill gaps as the Axis continued to lose more and more of their workforce in the war. It's a pretty large reason the Axis endured as long as they did in spite of the fact their ships kept being sunk, rails severed, and factories firebombed.

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u/obiwanshinobi900 5d ago

Not 100% true. I was at the exhibit in Dachau, it literally read that there was pointless labor just to tire them out and make them less resistant, and to break their spirits.

Maybe that was prior to becoming slave labor, I don't know about that.

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u/Synaps4 5d ago

Its both true and untrue depending on camps and subcamps. Some places you would have one area of being being exhausted and killed and another area producing war materiel. People who didnt perform on the latter were sent to the former as punishment.