ngl there is racist connotations in the way people label ICE as "masked thugs" or "gang members". by doing this you're disassociating ICE from state institutions & associating them with racialized terms of criminality in order to reinforce the idea that they're dangerous. In reality they're just cops & this is just cop shit.
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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The "Einsatzgruppen" were a gaggle of former or current cops, aging reservists and some volunteers who were sent in after the Wehrmacht had taken a territory.

Their job was to shoot Jews and Partisans. While "Einsatzgruppe" is the German word for Task Force, talking about the "Einsatzgruppen" always refers to these groups in the Third Reich.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    the "n" at the end is regular German plural btw. don't fall for this farce

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Kollege, ich weiß nicht, was du mir damit sagen willst. Ich hab sowohl im Englischen als auch im Deutschen den Plural verwendet.

    Wenn jemand im Englischen von "Einsatzgruppen" spricht, dann meint er nicht das Konzept von "Task Force" in einem deutschen Kontext. Es geht dabei, vor allem wenn wir schon über das Dritte Reich reden, um die "Einsatzgruppen des SD".

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    it's literally in the German dictionary. the firebrigades have Einsatzgruppen here too, for example.

    some probably nazi professor getting a German boner when he doesn't translate the title of units properly, doesn't change reality.

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    Example: https://www.feuerwehr.hamburg/die-spezialeinsatzgruppen-871244

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