News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Stolperstein. Parent comment

Re:Stolperstein by Klaster_1 on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:21AM (#31807669)
The idea to put a bit more info about the person was brilliant, even a single sentence makes you relate more. There is a similar project in Russia called The Last Address [1], I see these a lot (but probably not enough) in the Saint-Petersburg historical center, and although being a similar age and area of expertise to lots of victims helps, even a brief summary of their "wrongdoings" would go a long way enriching the perspective on our history, especially given current political climate here. "A 30 years old engineer lived here" doesn't ring as close as "a 30 years old engineer who lived here was murdered by the state for a crime of opposing the oppressive regime".

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

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Stolperstein by spython on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:35AM (#31808617)
I think with many victims we just don't know what exactly happened – some were opposing the regime, some told a political joke, some were falsely accused by their co-workers in order to get promoted to their position, some were falsely accused by their (innocent) friends who were tortured by NKVD, some had a wrong biography, and others had a wrong name. They all got Article 58.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Stolperstein by winReInstall on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:55AM (#31811843)
A woman in my town was send into the "lighter" political version of the KZ, because she remarked upon recieving the "medal of motherhood" with a cynic "and were shall i pin that, to my bottom?"

Totalitarian nightmares have no humor. If you think, your favourite thing in life shoul dbe spared jokes and jests, you are heading right towards that spot. Nothing should be sacrosanct to jokes.

I raise my glass to those who walked into the fence, taking theire workforce awaz from the fuehrer and his germinions.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Stolperstein by tpoacher on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:12AM (#31808009)
I always thought that a firstperson shooter game where whenever you killed a mook you'd get a quick flashback of that person's life would have been a super interesting concept. Especially if it was a Call of Duty like game, rather than a game where you could choose to avoid killing.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Stolperstein by Klaster_1 on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:15AM (#31808478)
Sniper Elite 5 has something like that: every enemy has a short biography visible when you aim at them. Didn't play the game, but like the gesture - people are people no matter what side you are on, doesn't matter who you dehumanize, it's wrong either way.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Stolperstein by fnordpiglet on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:24AM (#31808086)
This happens in Divinity 2 as an elf. If you eat the body of someone you flash back into their life.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Stolperstein by heartbeats on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:49AM (#31810993)
https://xkcd.com/873/
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Stolperstein by refurb on Monday June 20, 2022 @09:13AM (#31809962)
The film Shoah always struck me for similar reasons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoah_(film)

They did many of these interviews in the 70’s so a little more than 30 years after the Holocaust.

Seeing them interview some farmer who was 20 at the time and lived near the village of Auschwitz and remembers seeing the trains going in full of people and coming out empty really hits home as it all happened in the midst of people just living their lives.

[ Parent | on HN ]