anyroads:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

Y’all want to come in my inbox defending the poor, defenceless Europeans in Nazi-occupied countries for willingly handing their Jews over to the Germans like their governments weren’t already involved in the systematic oppression of Jews and Roma well before Hitler ever rolled up in his Panzerkampfwagen. 

The truth is most Europeans were glad for the leg up in getting rid of us. 

If you don’t understand the deep, ancient hatred Europeans have against Jews and Roma, then you don’t understand European history. You haven’t looked into all of it. You can draw straight lines between every expulsion to every pogrom, to the Holocaust. Do you even know how many Europeans saw it as an advanced, centralized, beaurocratic way of dealing with a problem that people had tried to “solve” in their communities for generations? I feel like I say this so often, and no one wants to hear it, because it’s so ugly: there are stories from Hungary of people returning from the camps after the war, being told, in public, by random strangers, that they should have died in a concentration camp instead of coming back to be a problem that has to be dealt with. People literally resented those they sent to their death knowingly, for surviving and making them feel guilty about their own complicity.