Absolutely, empathy is easily the enemy of fascism. And the worst thing to them is unity, as we have the most empathy for people we consider in-group, so division only feeds into their agenda.

In all of the discussions, Höss is quite matter-of-fact and apathetic, shows some belated interest in the enormity of his crime, but gives the impression that it never would have occurred to him if somebody hadn't asked him. There is too much apathy to leave any suggestion of remorse and even the prospect of hanging does not unduly stress him. One gets the general impression of a man who is intellectually normal, but with the schizoid apathy, insensitivity and lack of empathy that could hardly be more extreme in a frank psychotic.

From the Wikipedia article Rudolf Höss, about the commandant of Auschwitz.

I picked up a fair amount from an OER textbook that references the studies on its chapter on conformity and obedience, but I bet there is a meta analysis out there with a more comprehensive list. The only issue is later studies on this can't ethically go beyond a certain amount of fake voltage, as the original studies went a bit too far it's getting people to think they killed someone.

The textbook in question is available here: https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/

Sorry, my phone corrected conform to confirm. I think most people picked that up by context, but simply typing it several times just now it reverted to confirm. Lol

To use violence, they still need someone to carry that out.

That's 100 million billion!

6 million jew, okay. But I didn't quantify all the other victims of the camps.

I dunno, it had some cool stuff. Like, um... Those grenades on sticks? Pretty great.

She killed herself, one could argue.

And Whistler's mother

Thanks Eva! I'm glad your doing well

Oh thanks for the correction then, even if he did claim it I wouldn't believe it obviously, I thought he was supposed to have taken a bunch of prisoners at gunpoint but that memory of reading that is from like decades back now so idk.

He was a war hero from WW1 so it was presumably a bit higher than that, but the vibe is there.

Also both the Holocaust numbers and war deaths are wrong so I'm very curious about where exactly 13 million came from, especially considering one of the things Nazi did was militarize law enforcement even more than Germany already did, which was considerable.

Ironically that was the best thing he ever done

What about Eva Braun?

Pretty safe to assume he went somewhere because he wasn't in that hole. Dental records confirmed that.

Some historians seem to think he would've mentioned it in Mein Kampf if he had.

Yeah I knew he was in WW1, and may have taken a life there. But I'm wondering about when he was actually in power. Like, did history's greatest anti-Semite really resist the temptation to do a little dirty work himself? Did he never take an afternoon to go throw the lever on a gas chamber himself? It's not like he couldn't have easily arranged such a thing.

Notably it worked really well

A few dozen people were executed for German war crimes. These people were not "just following orders", regardless of what they said. They were creating orders.

Thousands and thousands of people directly responsible for nazi slaughter were safely smuggled out of Germany by the CIA, given new names, and resettled in America, Canada, South America, South Africa, and more.

These people were also creating orders, and yet they were freed from any consequences, including even the economic ones that followed in postwar Germany. They went on to fertilize many of the fascist, racist movements we see taking over today.

Millions more lower level people who only directly murdered others by pulling a trigger, were let off the hook completely. Many got to keep their positions of violent state enforcement. These were the only people "just following orders" and they all escaped prosecution.

Did you just not read the Wikipedia article or what?

Maybe you're implying shooting people running away is common in US law enforcement?

Don't be glib; state your point with some conviction.

Conservatives are fascists. They are the same people. Always have been.

...the unborn children that hypothetically would have been born if there hadn’t been a famine or a war.

One of those kids could've gone on to have a kid that has a kid that helps populate the whole universe. So the real number is closer to 500 kajillion million trillion.

Honestly, I’m happily surprised this guy is being ratioed like this. We are subverting the leftist infighting trope.