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why do the nazis order the victim take off their pants


thank you

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Back in the day, circumcision was not popular amongst Non-Jewish Europeans.

Most Europeans were uncircumcized, and as such Nazis could easily tell Jews from non-Jews, by checking to see if they were circumcised or not.

At least, that's how I remember hearing it. I may be wrong.

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I confirm. Circumcision for non-religious reasons is still far less common here nowadays than it is in the USA, even if it's more frequent than it was back then.

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in addition the circumcision suggestion which i also think is the reason, one must also see the simple degradation tactics that the nazi used.

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Humiliation...


Also the fact that all Nazis are gay.

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Germans have been the most intelligent people on Earth.
I should know due to my being an Irish Catholic who grew up very poor.Worked
far too hard at 25 jobs..until I became a stockbroker where I honestly made millions for my clients{all of them}.Then when in hospital Johns Hopkins huge back operation......phone in room rings and fellow broker tells me that my German American wife took the millions that I had saved and ran off with some guy to Costa Rica or somewhere.Germans...very intelligent,cold,calculating people.
Movie was lousy.

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You really are a retard. Learn some history AFTER you learn how to suck on a dummy and drink milk!

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This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
YOU CAN NOT TELL WHO IS JEWISH AND WHO IS NOT JEWISH
BY LOOKING AT THEIR PENIS. The Nazi probably ordered
them to remove their pants for reasons of humiliation.

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No they didn't lol It was to see who was "cut" and who wasn't.

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I doubt the Nazis cared whether it was a good method or not, it was simple and let them kill a lot of people.

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They had eight or nine people lined up and they were only supposed to kill the seven Jews. They would not take the word of the prisoners, so in order to satisfy themselves which of the prisoners were Jewish, they decided to check who had been circumcised.
A humiliating experience, no doubt, however, the primary motivation in getting their trousers down was to check the proof circumcision.

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It is true that the Nazis would look at a manĀ“s penis to see if he was circumsized or not.
In Auchwitz, the gypsies were inspected right away at the train station and sent to the showers if they were circumsized.
It happened to the Hungarians, Polish, Russians and any other nationality.
If you were cut, you were usually killed.

If it harms none, do what though wilt.

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They did the same thing in Yugoslavia, the Serbs made the their enemies drop their pants and if they were circumcised they got captured or executed.

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See the Odessa File where a neo-Nazi explains to the character played by Jon Voight that circumcision is not a sure indication whether a person is Jewish or not. To save you time it is this: A circumcised person may or may not be Jewish. But a practicing Jew would surely be circumcised.

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Mike Caine was Vichy French and he and his cobbers were shooting jews BEFORE the krauts asked them to!Nasty bugger,eh?

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he was nasty.. great of M Caine to take on such a role so that we get to see a compelling character study every now and then.. just re-watched it on Netflix.. but I recall the DVD extras including a nifty interview with Caine, discussing the character`s total lack of an upside. He made the role compelling and human anyway, even if the guy was a turkey. Thank goodness Caine has taken roles like this, or supporting characters, so that we get to watch a true artist in action. I even liked his (almost) cameo role as DiCaprio's father in Inception.

:-) canuckteach (--:

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OP, it was because it was all the rage in those days to dance in ones underpants. Still is in certain parts of the planet.

Reference is inscrutable because there is nothing to scrute.

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well sure, but tell the Nazis, not us..

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