Weimar - the town in Germany, there were born and lived I. Goethe, Schiller, Liszt, Bach I., and other prominent people of this country.They turned the unimportant town in the German Cultural Centre.And in 1937, a number of highly cultured Germans erected a concentration camp for their ideological opponents: Communists, fascists, socialists and other unwanted regime.
inscription on the gates of Buchenwald in German means "to each his own," and the word "Buchenwald" - literally "beech forest".The camp was built for dangerous criminals.Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Slavs, mulattos and other racially "inferior" people, "subhuman", appeared later.The term "subhuman" true Aryans put what is the likeness of man which is in a spiritual sense is much lower than an animal.It is a source of unbridled passion, the desire to destroy everything around, primitive envy and meanness does not cover.But the most important thing is not the individual personalities of the people and even whole nations and races.The Nazis believed that as a result of coming to power, the Bolsheviks began to manage the country's most degenerate people on Earth, and the Communists - is born criminals.After the attack on the Soviet Union began to come into the camp, Soviet prisoners of war, but almost all were shot.
So, a few days in September 1941 killed 8483 person.Accounting for Soviet prisoners of war at first was not conducted, so it is impossible to establish how many people were just shot.The reason for the shootings trivial.The International Red Cross could provide prisoners parcels from home, but the Soviet Union had to give lists of captives and prisoners were not wanted.Therefore, in the spring of 1942 it left 1.6 million. Soviet prisoners of war, and in 1941 there were 3.9 million. People.The rest were killed, died of starvation, disease, froze in the cold.
At the Nuremberg trials announced the documents on which the Nazis were going to destroy the population of the occupied territories: 50% in Ukraine, 60% in Belarus, 75% in Russia, and the rest had to work for the Nazis.In September 1941 in Germany there were Soviet prisoners of war.They were immediately put to work, in Vol. H. And in munitions factories.Professional military and patriotic work for the enemy does not want.Those who refused were sent to concentration camps.And for them it meant the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald.Weak and professionally unfit destroyed, while the rest were forced to work.Work - feeding, do not work - hungry.And that "bad people" understand the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald did so to read it from inside the camp.In the camp, the Nazis were doing what they wanted.For example, the camp commander's wife Elsa Koch selected the newcomers with interesting tattoos on their skin and made lampshades, handbags, wallets and so on., And her friends - wives of other camp guards - gave written advice on the procedure.The heads of some of the dead zasushivat folded to the size of fists.Doctors tested in humans anti-frostbite, typhoid, tuberculosis and plague vaccine.Conducted medical experiments, organized the epidemic and tested means of dealing with them.They pump out blood for the wounded, and 300 - 400 gr., And all at once.To describe even a fraction of the horrors that have experienced prisoners, not raise his hand.
inscription on the gates of Buchenwald should be seen in view of the high degree German society.For him, people were only Aryans, and all the rest - is subhuman, "Untermensch", they are not even people, just like people.Their participation in the total victory of National Socialism - only slavery and life on the position of the working cattle.And there is no democracy.Here are some ideas born from the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald.Since the beginning of April 1945 under the leadership of the underground resistance of an international organization concluded ceased to obey the camp administration.And two days later, he heard gunfire from the west, the camp rose in revolt.Having broken in many places the barbed wire under tension, captured prisoners barracks SS guard and nearly 800 guards.Most were shot or torn hands, and 80 captured.On April 11, 15 hours and 15 minutes on their own battalion liberated the camp took the Americans.They restored the fence, the prisoners were driven to the barracks and ordered to surrender their weapons.Weapons are not only passed the battalion of Soviet prisoners.April 13 the gates of Buchenwald opened wide - in the camp of Soviet troops entered.This is the end of Hitler's history of Buchenwald.260 000 people have fallen into the camp, the Germans destroyed nearly 60 000. And just in German concentration camps of times during the Second World War was destroyed almost 12 million. People.
