One depressing part of WW2 (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

I was reminded of this in a game I played today. But I think it’s depressing that if you read that during WW2 someone was put in a camp, that’s not enough information to know which country it was in, why they were put in a camp, and/or their race/ethnicity/religion/ect. Like yeah people think first about Germany and Jews but that doesn’t cover even close to all people subject to that treatment. Maybe it was Germany’s government. Maybe it was the US. Maybe it was the USSR. Maybe it was another that I don’t know about yet. Maybe they were Jewish. Maybe communists. Maybe gay. Maybe Japanese. Maybe German. You won’t know until you look them up probably (unless they’re really famous). But either way, depressing af

 

[Yerichu]

Definitely lots of sorrow and horrified things occur in that era of time...
Many were tortured and violated which were other groups other than the Jews

 

[Ahsoka]

Definitely lots of sorrow and horrified things occur in that era of time...
Many were tortured and violated which were other groups other than the Jews

There really was such a large variety of terrible stuff that could happen then. Execution, experimentation, forced labor, and it goes on and on Not just with those sent to camps either, civilians starved to death when the enemy occupied their area, some got shot, some forced to live in terrible conditions. Definitely a dark time

 

[Yerichu]

There really was such a large variety of terrible stuff that could happen then. Execution, experimentation, forced labor, and it goes on and on Not just with those sent to camps either, civilians starved to death when the enemy occupied their area, some got shot, some forced to live in terrible conditions. Definitely a dark time

Yep.... it was real hard time for those people to survive the mess that occur among most ethnic and racial groups
US and Soviet have a lot to explain

 

[StrayMixx]

In my eighth grade English class, we read Anne Frank's diary (that was a good thing, actually lol), BUT we were also forced to watch a freaking Holocaust movie "so we could understand her situation better", I guess. I still don't know why to this day (idk if he ever told us the title either, he seemed to have just slipped it in the player and made us watch it), but the movie was soooooooooo depressing, too. Mothers were having their babies taken away (what was that all about?), and the kid lover in me just couldn't handle it! And we were told to take notes on it and everything like this was history. I mean, I get what the Holocaust has to do with Anne Frank, but bruh... he was making it look so much more like a history class than English that I started confusing the two subjects, homework-wise. He was also just a meanie in general, though. lol

 

[dark_tranquility]

It is depressing. All those lives lost.
I just hope to god, we don't have another war..

 

[Ahsoka]

Honestly, the weight of WW2 never fully hit home for me until this one day after class when a Japanese student actually apologised to me (Chinese) for what happened during and before the war. It was sort of awkward, and I told them they really didn't have to do that, but after I left, I just sort of thought about that. About how much it must have weighed on them to say those things to me. And how the effects of WW2 in general are still felt to this day. I made an effort to learn more about it after that day and to understand more.

Some countries have definitely tried to make amends with others who were persecuted during that rule. Sometimes it was relatively soon (such as some of those who received some monetary compensation), sometimes it took a lot longer (such as the apology Germany gave to LGBT people who suffered during and after), and some just never acknowledged it, going to far as to make laws against any "defamation" or whatnot related to the war even when it's true information. I know some stuff not just because I have ties to 2 countries that were on the allies side, but also German relatives who were persecuted in the USSR then, along with Jewish relatives. But also because I have family in Berlin Germany and I've been there multiple times. That has given me a good chance to learn a lot of different aspects of the war because they do focus on it in Berlin a lot. Not just the typical these countries fought the war, these groups of people were persecuted (typically only one or 2 groups are covered when discussing the time), and Pearl Harbor and the atomic bombs. That feels like the information you'd get in the US typically. But I also went to museums about people who rebelled or tried to form coups and/or assassinate Hitler, museums about Germans who tired to save or saved Jews during the time, museums about political prisoners or people who did things to attract the attention of the SS (such as voting for another other party or voting against a Nazi policy), more about what happened to civilians and prisoners of war (particularly for Russians), and even parts about Nazi architecture, since I toured an old building that had remnants of Nazi architecture still, since it was an old building. Of course there's still so much I don't know though, there's so much to cover about it really. A very eventful time, but not in a good way.