Treblinka Inmates Slap Foreheads, Realize Mistake: Not Being Mexican Children To Get Liberal Sympathy

“I can’t shake the sense that I actually knew it all along.”

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Treblinka, June 20 – Members of this death camp’s Sonderkommando, tasked with disposing of the corpses of fellow Jews from the gas chamber and cleaning it out for its next use, expressed embarrassment today at understanding where they erred in trying to attract the attention of left-wing activists in the US. Instead of being Jews condemned to starvation, beatings, disease, and death, they now realize, in order to generate the proper sentiments they should instead have been children of Mexicans who illegally crossed the border into the US and are being held in facilities separately from their parents, where they do receive sufficient food, clothing, and medical care.

Inmates at this facility in the forest northeast of Warsaw slapped their foreheads in sudden recognition of their mistake.

“God damn it, I should have known,” grumbled Szlama Grubinski, 20, as he moved a corpse onto a litter for removal to a mass grave. “If our suffering isn’t enough to engender political action by those people, we should have realized much sooner it was stupid to be here instead of in a detention facility at the Texas border.”

Josef Kohn, 22, agreed. “It’s an unpleasant feeling, suddenly becoming aware of this truth,” he remarked as he scrubbed down a railroad cattle car from the bodily fluids and other debris of the hundreds of Jews who had been crammed inside for days without food, water, or toilet facilities on their way to extermination at the camp. “All of this could have been different if we’d only known. And I can’t shake the sense that I actually knew it all along.”

Observers appeared unmoved by the dawning of the realization among the inmates. “Speak again and I’ll unleash Barry on you,” barked Commandant Kurt Franz, referring to his dog, whom he releases with some regularity to tear apart prisoners for real or imagined infractions.

“These filth are only here because they are useful for short time,” explained Franz. “I think one day this place will become a metaphor for sadism and wanton killing, but our achievement will only really become a natural part of the scenery if the metaphor is invoked for activities far less horrifying, such as American immigration policy that will not involve starvation, beatings, or killings of any sort, but will nevertheless, for some unexplained reason, evoke for certain political partisans the work we do here.”

“I can live with that, though,” he added. “It’s mostly Jews whose suffering they will misappropriate.”

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