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The ability to have nice conversations with strangers and especially store employees will save your everyday life from greyness

rowan-e-ravenwood

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nebuvoid

One fun thing to me about German, at least in my regional dialect, is the -ong bastardization of words that really adds a village fool twang to words

Beton -> Betong

Pardon -> Pardong

Saison -> Saisong

Karton -> Kartong

etc etc, a personal favourite: Croissant -> Crossong

I make sure to make it sound as stupid as possible because it's fun that way

#und vergessen wir nicht meinen Favoriten #Kuseng/Couseng #Betonung natürlich auf der ersten Silbe

dog-teeth

maybe tomorrow

geekandmisandry

During the holocaust some estimates say that over 50% of the entire European population of Roma people were murdered.

They were also forced to be identified in camps with the brown upside down triangle

They were considered racially impure, much like the Jews. In many nations they were hunted by their fellow countrymen, who had an existing bias against them that was fuelled by war propaganda. The Einsatzgruppen (basically a moving, mobile killing squad) had Roma as a target. And, yes, there was a "Gypsy Question".

Their population was absolutely decimated. But worse.

August 2 is a date that some acknowledge this genocide. Some other dates....some not any dates at all. This date was chosen because of the huge killings on that night of those in the Zigeunerfamilienlager. Roma families were kept together in a camp in Auschwitz.

The Nazis decided to "clear" most of the camp that night, killing many children and elderly on purpose. There was a lot of fighting, they fought back with improvised weapons. Let no one ever say that they walked wearily to their deaths. They fought for themselves and their families with every ounce of strength they had.

Thousands were killed in gas chambers that night, the women, children, elderly and infirm. The rest were sent to work camps.

Germany only officially acknowledged this aspect of the holocaust in the early 80s. In the Former Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic Roma women were forced into sterilisation through a number of means, in the 70s, the 90s and into the 00's, with some reports that this is still ongoing.

The Roma are not a footnote in history. Their suffering was immeasurable, like so many others. In ways that some places will still not acknowledge or account for.

May the memories of those gone be a blessing, and the future of those that remain be a brighter and more hopeful one.

dykepuffs

It's even worse, in some ways because even "official" memorials of the Holocaust often argue against our own traditions of remembrance.

On the 16th of May in 1944, the guards attempted to "liquidate" the Roma Family Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, ie to murder everyone held prisoner there. And, we fought back, with planks and hammers and bare hands, until the guards gave up and left. Although the majority of the camp were murdered within months of this event, that act of resistance in such a hopeless situation has become a pillar of remembrance and pride.

And, even "official" memorials of the Holocaust argue about it, they hedge and priss and cite the Nazis' own records for "why it can't have happened like that", even though we have stories passed down from survivors and from other prisoners who witnessed it. The suspicion of Gypsies is so bad, we are so much mistrusted as narrators of our own history, that people would rather take the word of the literal Nazi party, over our word.

#holocaust #antiziganism

have-you-been-here

Westerwald, Germany

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

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#it was like a thing with my grandparents that no matter where we went #we would always drive home with a detour through the Westerwald #if you're a ceramics nerd it's worth looking it up btw!

official-german-puns

Oh sieh nur! Es hat schon wieder kackundfickzig Grad!

nohohankerotomania-deactivated2

#wie Club Mate beim ersten Mal schmeckt lol

yesornopolls

Do you believe that the saxophone is a brass instrument?

Yes

No

Voting ended on9h

#it's a woodwind!#had a school friend whose dad built saxophones for a living

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Would you actually lie to the police for your Blorbo?

Yes

No

Voting ended onAug 9

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#i would lie to the police for a stranger

grallyfly

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racewinner

the concept of not getting full coverage for the queen stage of the tdff, but right now i can watch the entire 234kms of the first, entirely flat stage of pologne if i want to

#it's so fucking infuriating again #and you can just tell how much less resources they dedicate #by how much less information is there about where the riders are less cameras etc #'just trust us there were hills in this stage!'