Oh boy, this shit again. The only thing I hate more than Jews is "gotcha arguments". Going to keep this short since I knew people are going to ignore me/call me a Jew/claim I'm being paid off.

First off, these swimming pools started off as water reservoirs. They were later retrofitted into swimming pools. So, yes, there were swimming pools. But why were there swimming pools? Well, two reason.

One was that SS officers were often given housing near the camps in addition to their job. Because these people weren't local to the area, that meant bringing their families with them which necessitated many of the usual amenities of day to day life. That's why you have soccer fields, swimming pools, and other luxuries. You can find these houses in Mauthausen still being occupied today. These camps were a place of work for the guards who operated them.

That brings us to the next reason. Such luxuries were often either dangled like a carrot on the stick in front of prisoners. Arbeit macht frei, after all. It's also important to remember that it wasn't just Jews that were brought into these camps; plenty of groups were rounded up and shipped off which lead to a social hierarchy among the prisoners by the guards. This often lead to non-Jew prisoners being treated slightly better but this was more for making them further complicit in their imprisonment. They were just as much in danger of being shot should they win a soccer game against the SS team.

The fact that public education has devolved into saying that Auschwitz was effectively a gas chamber and some ovens instead of the massive complex that it really was had caused massive mental retardation on both sides. Saying that "there was a pool, that means the Holocaust wasn't as bad/didn't happen" is like saying Jeffrey Dahmer couldn't have killed those women because he's just to charming. I would caution anyone who supports collectivists under any banner.

inb4 a SJW called me a uncle tom someone claims I was bought off by Jews

Oh boy, this shit again. The only thing I hate more than Jews is "gotcha arguments". Going to keep this short since I knew people are going to ignore me/call me a Jew/claim I'm being paid off.

First off, these swimming pools started off as water reservoirs. They were later retrofitted into swimming pools. So, yes, there were swimming pools. But why were there swimming pools? Well, two reason.

One was that SS officers were often given housing near the camps in addition to their job. Because these people weren't local to the area, that meant bringing their families with them which necessitated many of the usual amenities of day to day life. That's why you have soccer fields, swimming pools, and other luxuries. You can find these houses in Mauthausen still being occupied today. These camps were a place of work for the guards who operated them.

That brings us to the next reason. Such luxuries were often either dangled like a carrot on the stick in front of prisoners. Arbeit macht frei, after all. It's also important to remember that it wasn't just Jews that were brought into these camps; plenty of groups were rounded up and shipped off which lead to a social hierarchy among the prisoners by the guards. This often lead to non-Jew prisoners being treated slightly better but this was more for making them further complicit in their imprisonment. They were just as much in danger of being shot should they win a soccer game against the SS team.

The fact that public education has devolved into saying that Auschwitz was effectively a gas chamber and some ovens instead of the massive complex that it really was had caused massive mental retardation on both sides. Saying that "there was a pool, that means the Holocaust wasn't as bad/didn't happen" is like saying Jeffrey Dahmer couldn't have killed those women because he's just to charming. I would caution anyone who supports collectivists under any banner.

Oh boy, this shit again. The only thing I hate more than Jews is "gotcha arguments". Going to keep this short since I knew people are going to ignore me/call me a Jew/claim I'm being paid off.

First off, these swimming pools started off as water reservoirs. They were later retrofitted into swimming pools. So, yes, there were swimming pools. But why were there swimming pools? Well, two reason.

One was that SS officers were often given housing near the camps in addition to their job. Because these people weren't local to the area, that meant bringing their families with them which required many of the usual amenities of day to day life. That's why you have soccer fields, swimming pools, and other luxuries.

That brings us to the next reason. Such luxuries were often either dangled like a carrot on the stick in front of prisoners. Arbeit macht frei, after all. It's also important to remember that it wasn't just Jews that were brought into these camps; plenty of groups were rounded up and shipped off which lead to a social hierarchy among the prisoners by the guards.

The fact that public education has devolved into saying that Auschwitz was effectively a gas chamber and some ovens instead of the massive complex that it really was had caused massive mental retardation on both sides.

Saying that "there was a pool, that means the Holocaust wasn't as bad/didn't happen" is like saying Jeffrey Dahmer couldn't have killed those women because he's just to charming. I would caution anyone who supports collectivists under any banner.