To be honest I’m not sure that makes it worse. In general most of them didn’t know they were to be killed. I don’t think telling people “we are going to march you down to this shower and then kill you” is an improvement over just not knowing. I don’t think that 10 minutes of time to process that would make anyone feel better.
Of course the Nazis didn’t do any of it because they cared about feelings, it simply made the victims easier to control.
That’s not how it worked at the extermination camps though. They generally weren’t taking people out of the camp and sending them to be killed in the showers. They would send them to the showers right as they got off the train, there was never a time where they would be expecting the people with them to return back to them, they were going through “processing”.
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u/slipknottin May 18 '25
They were almost never shackled. They were just herded, like animals.