“ILLNESS” OHHH MY FUFESDHHHC
Iirc Anne Frank died of an illness in the concentration camp??
To quote Wiki (which is truly not the most reliable source) “[Margot and Anne] died of typhus in March 1945.”
You know the response “well your not wrong”? I think that’s the thing that applys here
She did die of an illness, technically. but to leave it at that or pretend that was the cause of her death just…doesn’t work, it doesn’t grasp the situation at all. It’s technically correct but its not accurate
it implys that the nazi regeim, hiding in an attack under constant threat and being put in a concentration camp were incidental in her death…when really the thing that’s incidental is that in the end a illness is the thing that killed her.
would she be more heroic if she’d have held out long enough to be put in a gas chamber instead? would that death be less disapointing? She only avoided that fate because she got an illness first (in a concentration camp which are designed to breed illness, cause why waste bullets and gas if you can just stick people in horrible conditions and leave them to die right?). People who died of illness in the concentration camps were just as murdered as people who died in the gas chambers or those who died on the journey there or those who starved to death in hiding, or those who died on a long voyaye or by falling off a train while trying to escape the third reich.
The illness wasn’t the cause of her death, it was a method of extermination
and idk you just don’t get to use children who died as a result of genocide as a retorical device in your story….particularly if you don’t understand that. (But i don’t quite know how to put what I mena by this)
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