@feff @mindpersephone @neil but also note that a two or even three gender or sex choice might give you a lot of edge cases too that specifically hurt trans and intersex people. If you really want to know someone's hormonal state or if they have a specific organ it's probably more accurate to ask directly than to assume that all people who might reasonably pick woman have a uterus and an estrogen dominated endocrine system

@futurebird the nazis were incredibly prolific in disseminating propaganda that people would still believe 90 years later. From the efficient governing, over the consistent ideology, to the "german" engineering of the war machine

But like they were full of people with idiosyncratic ideas and beliefs, full of yes men only out for personal benefit.

Himmler was obsessed with some weird germanic pseudo myth,
Hitler with impractical architecture…

@futurebird yeah there's always a lot of corruption in what the nazis did: Embezzled money, misappropriated funds, stolen valuables. And it's rarely talked about because it feels so miniscule compared to the horrific crimes, but I think it's a common feature of strongly hierarchical political systems. No, a strong man at the top of government doesn't make it more efficient. He's more likely to create the perfect climate for bottomless money pits

@futurebird a lot of the people killed also still had a family that loved their disabled relatives. It's hard to tell a family member the truth about killing their child / sibling / etc. So they made up "reasonable" death certificates and often handed relatives some ash