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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Concentration camps yes, but Death Camps with gas chambers and crematoria, not intended to hold people for any longer than it took to "exterminate" them, were new. Even slave-labor camps of the sort where inmates were starved and worked to death were frowned upon, not considered normal. That's why the Nazis lied, and created false camp films for propaganda.
Edit to add this from the article about the Rosenstrasse protest:
Goebbels swiftly realized that to use force against the women protesting on the Rosenstrasse would undermine the claim that all Germans were united in the volksgemeinschaft. Using force against the protestors would not only damage the volksgemeinschaft, which provided the domestic unity to support the war, but would also draw unwanted attention to the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Stoltzfus wrote: "A public discussion about the fate of deported Jews threatened to disclose the Final Solution and thus endanger the entire war effort."[18]
Agree, but it was just how normalized internment camps were (Hitler claimed he got inspired by US ideas of population control). Which facilitated the German use of propaganda. If you said, "they are killing everyone there, my family died in there", no one would believe you even if you were an eyewitness. Although there weren't executions in the US camps, the conditions were so bad that at least 1800 out of 120 thousand people died. Even today, some people don't believe the testimony of the families of Japanese victims of the camps and trivialize and downplay their suffering.