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Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder
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"It had been the promise of free doughnuts that enticed his mother and dozens of her co-workers out of the planting fields and into the break room that day, where instead they had been met by 200 federal agents with plastic handcuffs and guns." washingtonpost.com/news/national/…
In the beginning, it was the promise of bread and jam that brought Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Umschlagplatz, the deportation site to Treblinka.
Of course the situations are not exactly the same. But if you are waiting for them to be exactly the same, you are missing the point of learning from history. Each detail of atrocity should be remembered as an alarm for decent people. We can't forget and we can't fail.
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