Down, in specific cases, to literally re-using the concentration camps and making a specific point to hire Gestapo agents and leaders as part of the Stasi. Ulbricht and Honecker were very much Hitler's actual successors in practice.
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There’s this concept in Pedagogy of the Oppressed that the oppressed become oppressors unless there is a conscious & liberating educational process. I think the cycle of punishment w/out consciousness plays into why we see oppressors cycle back around.
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I think there's a different dynamic here - Nazis and Communists had to pull from same personnel pool of violent people with antisocial tendencies when staffing their regimes and occupation regimes
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That makes sense. I was speaking more to the people of E. Germany vs. W. Germany in that they were not citizens of a liberal society in which social consciousness & education broke the cycle. Oppressor/Oppressed often flip & victimization plays into fascism.
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