# Gobb is Pitted

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**Created:** [October 2, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604 "2025-10-02T16:46:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/183 "2025-10-04T02:22:13Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> > [@Dissonance](#):
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> > Find me **one** cite that the Nazis were sorting out “blond haired blue eyes Slavs” from “tan and slanty-eyed communists” in the Soviet POW camps. I dare you. Because they absolutely weren’t.
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> As I recall, this was mentioned in a website that **you** posted two years ago:
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> > These statements aren’t in conflict. Here is, also, a statement from the Holocaust Museum: (Bolding added) [Holocaust Museum](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/mosaic-of-victims-in-depth) The Soviet Union was about 50% Caucasian and 50% Jewish or Asiatic. Of about 6m Soviet POWs captured by the Germans, about 3m were killed.
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> The Holocaust Museum itself appears to have edited the page and removed the text since then, but it was a valid quote at the time.

So, in other words, you are recalling something that wasn’t ever actually there. And more importantly, if it had existed, **doesn’t even say what you think it says.** It refers to prisoners selected to be immediately shot on the spot for being Jewish or political officers, which yes was German policy. **The rest of them were to be deliberately starved to death,** not sorted out into blonde hair and blue eyes and everyone else with the blonde-haired, blue-eyed ones allowed to live and the others to die. They were all Slavs to the Nazis and were all to be left to die.

For the record, I don’t think you’re actually a Nazi. You are just incredibly ignorant and immensely stupid. For anyone interested in the depths of your ignorance, stupidity and how it led you to Holocaust Denial without even realizing it, start here on that thread.

> [@Wagner group: what does the name refer to?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wagner-group-what-does-the-name-refer-to/986098/24):
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> The killing of Russians - or more specifically Slavs, which includes a lot more than just Russians - is 100% true, your understanding is seriously mistaken. Slavs were considered Untermensch in Nazi ideology and were the second largest group of victims of the holocaust just after the Jews. The Nazi plan, which thankfully ‘only’ reached their initial stage of being carried out (murdering ~9 million people) was to exterminate most Slavic people, with the remainder to be reduced to illiterate ch…

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