▲ 588 ▼ TIL - After World War II, thousands of Nazis fled to South America along so-called ratlines — often with the help of Catholic clergy (www.dw.com) submitted 2 years ago by bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to c/til@lemmy.world 42 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] T4V0@lemmy.pt 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child) And as far as anyone could find out it's not actually a Portuguese word. Just casual generational antisemitism.🤷♂️ Maybe it sounds like "lavagem", which actually means pig slop. Basically food or food scraps that spoiled or that's about to spoil and fed to pigs. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) That would have been a possibility. But they described it as being spelled exactly lavosh. So it's a play on words/meanings at some level. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] T4V0@lemmy.pt 4 points 2 years ago But they described it as being spelled exactly lavosh. Odd, in portuguese lavosh is written as lavash. Did they spell it phonetically or letter by letter? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) That would have been a possibility. But they described it as being spelled exactly lavosh. So it's a play on words/meanings at some level. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] T4V0@lemmy.pt 4 points 2 years ago But they described it as being spelled exactly lavosh. Odd, in portuguese lavosh is written as lavash. Did they spell it phonetically or letter by letter? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] T4V0@lemmy.pt 4 points 2 years ago But they described it as being spelled exactly lavosh. Odd, in portuguese lavosh is written as lavash. Did they spell it phonetically or letter by letter? permalink fedilink source parent