Wetzelrad wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2026 1:34 am
pilgrimofdark wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2026 12:49 am
There are more complaints about the disinfection squads doing shoddy work and taking bribes. Sometimes they didn't seal the windows of disinfection rooms.
At this point you have enough material to write an article collating all the instances of disinfection noncompliance. I'm astonished at how much of this there is.
It's hard to know what to think about it all.
"Judea Declares War On Lysol" is an intriguing title.
On the other hand, if the government told me a neighbor was hiding a lice infestation, and that I needed to walk half a mile to a disinfection facility, then stand in line for 3 hours in winter to take a cold shower with all my other neighbors, while my own home was sprayed with Lysol by government workers I don't know who pilfer through my stacks of Holocaust books, and all my bedding was taken to the infested neighbor's apartment to be disinfected and smell like sulfur... I'd be pretty aggravated and do whatever I could to avoid it in the future.
Me: Wow, that sucked. I'm never doing that again if I can help it.
Neighbor: Yeah, totally agree. They didn't even take Frank a few houses down. He's infested with lice, but they didn't find him.
Me: Well, don't tell anyone or we'll be forced to go take another bath half a mile away. These government bathhouses are almost as bad as the DMV.
Neighbor: What if Frank dies? They'll find his body and know he had lice all over. He's pretty sick.
Me: I don't know. Throw his corpse across the street. Let them deal with it.
The conventional histories that discuss this issue are similarly conflicted. It's difficult to argue that bathing is literal torture and genocide, but that's how the Jews described it at the time. Some historians agree, but don't dwell on this topic too long.
It's equally difficult to argue that Jewish Resistance to Nazi Persecution™ included... bribing poor people to take a bath for you, deliberately hiding cases of typhus, and strategically placing corpses in front of buildings to avoid being disinfected.
There are also obvious overlaps and contradictions compared to the Treblinka homicidal steam chamber narrative.
Germans: "Jews! Welcome to Treblinka! You are being sent to the Ukraine to work on agricultural farms! But first, you must take a bath! This way for the steam, ladies and gentlemen."
Jews, arriving from Warsaw after desperately avoiding the steam bathhouses for the last 2 1/2 years: *applause, relief*