Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers

• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I never heard that. They’d have had normal sized women and it’s more likely that they’d plan around the building than to rely on little people. Remember that the US was building thousands of planes and ships and needing extra small folks would have created a massive bottleneck.

  I did a quick search and nothing came up.

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

  Family of ‘dwarves’ who survived the concentration camps.

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  • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Very possible it’s some crazy shit I was told as a kid. I’ll have to do some digging.

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  • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Little people were employed in the building and inspection of B-24s. Henry Ford Collection

    Guess there’s some sort of truth to what I remember.

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You learn something new every day.

      Thanks.

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  • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Once in the concentration camp Auschwitz, the Ovitzes attracted the attention of the German camp physician Josef Mengele

    Fucking hell.

    But they all survived. Let’s not forget what happened despite all the ambient bullshit about holocaust denial.

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