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In reply to the discussion: Why the fuck do we have Democrats trying to get us to sympathize with deplorables? [View all]thucythucy
(8,243 posts)Most of the Germans gassed there were German Jews, I doubt very many of them voted for Hitler. The vast majority of those millions gassed at Auschwitz were Polish, Czech, French, Danes, Hungarians, Italians, that is, non-Germans--and many if not most of those were also Jews--so they wouldn't have been eligible to vote in the German elections of 1932 (the last democratic elections held) no matter who they supported.
BTW, the majority of German non-Jews also didn't vote for Hitler. Nazi support in the general elections was going down when conservative and other right-wingers in Germany decided to appoint Hitler Chancellor, figuring they could "control" him better that way. Besides, they figured anything was better than another Social Democrat as head of government.
Kind of like how the GOP is going along with Trump, because, you know, anybody but Hillary.
Most of the Germans who voted for Hitler (or the Nazis) who died as a result died on the Russian front or when their homes were bombed 1939-1945. Many were killed with ethnic Germans were chased out of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic states etc. in the summer and fall of 1945.
But gassing at Auschwitz was a fate reserved mostly for European Jews, as well as other "undesirables" like folks who were LGBT, people with disabilities, Romana (Gypsies) etc. Not too many German Hitler supporters among them.