Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by the Nazis, meant to house political opponents, and at the start didn’t have forced labor. Then, to quote Wikipedia,
After its opening by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, Romani, Germans, and Austrians that the Nazi Party regarded as criminals, and, finally, foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded.
The treatment was certainly brutal and there was forced labor and torture, but it was ultimately a concentration camp, not a death camp like Auschwitz. Compare Dachau’s 41.5k deaths out of 188k prisoners to Auschwitz’s 1.1 million out of 1.3 million. My point is that they won’t jump straight to death camps or the brutal treatment we associate with concentration camps. That kind of stuff will come later, when MAGA has consolidated power more, but for now they’ll stick to “just” imprisonment. First Dachau, then more Dachau, then Auschwitz.
Can you elaborate on the distinction you’re making?
Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by the Nazis, meant to house political opponents, and at the start didn’t have forced labor. Then, to quote Wikipedia,
The treatment was certainly brutal and there was forced labor and torture, but it was ultimately a concentration camp, not a death camp like Auschwitz. Compare Dachau’s 41.5k deaths out of 188k prisoners to Auschwitz’s 1.1 million out of 1.3 million. My point is that they won’t jump straight to death camps or the brutal treatment we associate with concentration camps. That kind of stuff will come later, when MAGA has consolidated power more, but for now they’ll stick to “just” imprisonment. First Dachau, then more Dachau, then Auschwitz.
Eh, Auschwitz took nearly two years to convert from camp to gas chambers, and sounds better paired with alligator. Potato, potato from my perspective.
Fair enough.