🧵The thing no one's ever been able to explain to me about the holocaust is... Why use gas chambers at all?
It's labour intensive (have to remove the bodies), location restrictive, slow, and then you have a body in your camp attracting disease.
"They cremated them" Wasting scarce fuel in a country that never reached the baku oil fields and couldn't gass its tanks?!
No genocide before or since has needed gas chambers. You know how the Armenian, Chechen, Bangladeshi, and Cambodian genocides were carried out?
They shot them and put them in a ditch. peak efficiency: Single bullet in material, instantaneous, and you already have them at gunpoint to make them walk to the ditch. You don't want to be discovered? You put up a sign "Unexploded mines, keep out"
Hell the Hutus pulled off a genocide with Machetes.
Is the conceit that this was one of the most inefficient examples of German over-engineering in history? Or are we to believe the average German is just so conscientious and moral that Russians, Turks, Japanese, Chinese, Cambodians, Pakistanis, Hindus, Africans, and Americans can all commit genocide with basic tools... but the lily-livered Germans needed elaborate rituals to emotionally distance themselves because they couldn't find enough people to man firing squads?
Again 6 million bullets fired (even assuming ALL of them died in gas chambers as opposed to any disease or hunger) is a very small number compared to what's put out in war. there are Individual Americans who own 20-50k bullets (I've know guys to buy 10k at a time during sales)

What do you think would have happened to Japanese americans in their internment camps if America's rail network was bombed and even the families of US soldiers were starving?

"It was emotionally draining, the Germans had breakdowns"
So you have penal unit of disobedient soldiers who you can force to clear landmines, by hand, under artillery fire, in -40, on the eastern front... or they'll be shot.
But you can't assign them to shoot prisoners?