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Re:A Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz (2012) by ransom1538 on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:07AM (#16266352)
If you were a German with an armpit tattoo [i] and were taken by the Russians death was certain. The allies would routinely hand over these men to the Russians to avoid an entire war crime trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_blood_group_tattoo

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Re:A Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz (2012) by rsync on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @04:51PM (#16269412)
"If you were a German with an armpit tattoo [1] and were taken by the Russians death was certain."

I can think of worse heuristics[1] to use for deciding "whom should we kill".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_blood_group_tattoo

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