Thread by @DivestSPD

"I had a relative who died in the Holocaust, too. He fell out of a guard tower"

- SPD Lt. Seth Dietrich

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This was a joke Dietrich made following an anti-bias training titled "Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust."

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On another day of the same training series, Dietrich also said "“If there’s one thing that I can take away from this training, it’s that we Germans know how to rally together for a cause.”
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In his interview with OPA, Dietrich said he was reported by Officer Todd Novisedlak , who had some kind of beef with Dietrich.

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As it turns out, Novisedlak was later fired for racist remarks.

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On a side note: There was a famous high-ranking Nazi named Sepp Dietrich.

No relation (that we know of)

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepp_Diet…