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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Made in 1936 and Kafka died in 1924. He would probably have died in a concentration camp if he lived to see this. Nazis did not give special treatment to Jewish writers, for example Josef Čapek (✝ approx. 14 April 1945 Bergen-Belsen). Still, there must have been other bizarre filing systems in his era, a multi-story vertical conveyor belt of filing cabinets is used in some town halls to this day.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nazis did not give special treatment to Jewish writers, for example Josef Čapek

They kind of did. The Nazis started out by hunting down and imprisoning or killing academics. If you were smart and educated, and not well connected inside the Nazi party, then you were enemy number one at the start of their takeover.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, that kind of special treatment, absolutely. But once in a concentration camp, they'd be just another subject with a number, albeit likely a lower one.