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        1. …in reply to @lynn180_lynn
          @lynn180_lynn @chai_iq @briebriejoy Nazi ideology regarded most Slavs as subhuman, and Jews as both subhuman and diabolical. These views undergirded different policies towards the groups during WWII…
      1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
        @lynn180_lynn @chai_iq @briebriejoy Poland was ground zero for both policies. In the initial months, Nazis carried out summary executions of Polish leaders and intelligentsia and also established ghettos for Jews, killing resisters.
    1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
      @lynn180_lynn @chai_iq @briebriejoy The Nazi vision for Jews was steady genocide, though forced labor was mixed in, often as a method of killing. The Nazi vision for Poles was as a servant class during a period of German imperial expansion.
  1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
    @lynn180_lynn @chai_iq @briebriejoy Parts of the servant class vision that were implemented: unpaid/slave labor in German factories and households, elimination of post-primary school education.
    1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
      @lynn180_lynn @chai_iq @briebriejoy "The sole purpose of this schooling is to teach them simple arithmetic, nothing above the number 500; writing one's name; and the doctrine that it is divine law to obey the Germans... I do not think that a knowledge of reading is desirable."—Heinrich Himmler
      1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
        @lynn180_lynn @chai_iq @briebriejoy This wasn't wholesale eliminationist murder, even though some 1.8 million non-Jewish Poles were killed during the war. But there are clear signs that the Nazis' long-term vision was to liquidate the Polish population if and when Germans fully populated their lands.
        1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
          @lynn180_lynn @chai_iq @briebriejoy Anyhow, I dwell on the details not because they are exactly the same as Nazi antisemitism, but because they would be devastatingly awful if they weren't (reasonably) overshadowed by it.