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madlove @madlove.bsky.social

"Nazi Germany used deliberately deceptive & bureaucratic euphemisms to refer to the transportation of Jews for extermination. The most common terms, "resettlement to the east" & "evacuation," were designed to hide their true intentions from both the victims & the public" — ‪@cvilletgr.bsky.social

aug 30, 2025, 6:44 pm • 118 63

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SamuelBucket @danwoody.bsky.social

"Transfer"

aug 30, 2025, 10:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social

The most common euphemism was "Entfernung," meaning "to put at a distance," "to remove." There's a whole subdiscipline of German language studies, "Nazisprache," Nazispeak, with its own dictionaries, etc.

aug 30, 2025, 9:58 pm • 4 0 • view
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madlove @madlove.bsky.social

Klanada's CBC isn't much better

aug 30, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 1 • view