Arbeit macht frei - it was a cynical inscription on the gates of Auschwitz.This concentration camp was not the first or the world, or even in Germany.But it happened to be the personification of his Holocaust and war crimes.Camp that demonstrate all the findings and decisions of the Nuremberg trials.The inscription on the gates of Auschwitz says that labor makes man free, while hiding its real purpose of high-sounding phrases.Work, of course, was.However, it was the work of people whose fate was sealed their executioners.Prisoners were used as actual slaves, creating the basis for the fascist war machine and the big German corporations.
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However, the main purpose of Auschwitz was the elimination of specific undesirable Adolf Hitler peoples.By the way, in our time the inscription on the gates of Auschwitz - metal letters themselves literally - was the coveted prey for the "black" collectors.So, in 2009, the letters were cut down and stolen to be sold, but the intruders managed to calculate the time and catch.
Auschwitz - it is actually a complex of three German concentration camps built near the town of the same name since the beginning of the fortieth year to fall forty-two on the basis of old army barracks belonging to the Polish army.Since the camp was in Poland (to the west of Krakow), at the beginning of his victims were Poles and Czechs have got a little bit earlier in the zone of the Nazi conquest.A truly mass destruction began in January 1942, when the Nazi Party headed for total extermination of the Jews.They were the main victims of the regime.
During the camp the Nazis use it destroyed one and a half million, the lion's share of which were Jews.Moreover, Auschwitz was the most effective in this case a death camp.So, the chief commander of the concentration camp (May 1940 - November 1943), Rudolf Hess first in the Nazi system of extermination of "inferior nations" came up with to use as a pesticide toxic substance crystals "Zyklon B".He was very proud of his invention.The gas they produce allowed in small doses and very fast to kill death row, which affects the capacity of this machine of death and, ultimately, can increase the number of victims.Another innovation bosses hellish concentration camp was the construction of the gas chambers, taking at once sentenced to two thousand.
often prisoners of Auschwitz until recently had no idea about what a sad fate awaits them.In order to avoid riots and acts of disobedience on the part of people who have nothing to lose, the real intentions regarding the fate of the prisoners to the last hiding from them.Thus, the inscription on the gates of Auschwitz ingratiatingly promised freedom.Even at a time when suicide bombers were in the gas chambers, it all seemed like a disinfection process.The liberation of Auschwitz, held in late January 1945, when the Red Army beat out the formation of the Nazis from Poland.In the camp at that time was only a few thousand exhausted prisoners.
