Seventy years from the time that ceased last shots of World War II.Humanity remembers a lot.But a lot and forgets.And now, in some countries raise their head fascist grouping.They want to revive Nazism, and hence fascism - all the grief that has survived humanity: war, death and concentration camps.
April 11 - Day of liberation of Nazi concentration camps.This date is established by a decision of the UN as a memorial.On this day, 11/04/1945, there was an international revolt of the prisoners in the camp of Buchenwald.
history of the concentration camps in Europe
concentration camps emerged in the early twentieth century, during the Anglo-Boer War.Then the camp was a place where temporarily held as prisoners of war, as well as local residents, they could fight as guerrillas.The camps were a tent facilities where prisoners were provided some convenience.There is evidence that these English camps killed more than 25 thousand people.
during the Third Reich concentration camp became a place of mass extermination.In Germany the first concentration camp at Dachau was a camp that killed at least 70 thousand prisoners from 1933 to 1945.At the end of the war in German concentration camps were 26 major and dozens of smaller ones.
April 11 - Day of liberation of Nazi concentration camps.Prisoners of Dachau will never forget this day.
bloodiest symbol of fascism was the Auschwitz concentration camp, which was located on the territory of Poland.
It was destroyed almost 1.5 million people.April 11 - Day of liberation of Nazi concentration camps.Photos of prisoners on the walls of the corridor camps are mute evidence of Nazi crimes.At Auschwitz it was first tested chemical method of killing prisoners in the form of gas "Zyklon B".7000 liberated Auschwitz - a living symbol, reminding that there is a day of liberation of Nazi concentration camps.
Camp Germany
More than 14,000 camps have been built during the years of the Nazi Reich.They contain about 18 million prisoners from nearly thirty countries.In all camps, prisons and ghettos, killing more than ten million people.Half of all victims - citizens of the Soviet Union.Our nation remembers and honors the Day of liberation of Nazi concentration camps.
The biggest camps were:
- Auschwitz: 4 million prisoners.
- Majdanek: 1.5 million prisoners.
- Sachsenhausen: about 100,000 prisoners.
- Mauthausen: about 100,000 prisoners.
- Ravensbruck: about 90 thousand prisoners.
- Treblinka: about 75 thousand prisoners.
Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald - the largest Nazi concentration camp, who began his criminal activity in June 1937 near the German town of Weimar.The first batch of prisoners arrived in June 1938.For eight years, he has grown to sixty-six branches of the main camp, scattering its tentacles on the occupied countries of Europe.
where prison labor to make installation of the missile flying bombs FAA.
During the period from 1937 to 1945 through the Buchenwald concentration camp passed about two hundred and forty thousand prisoners.But first, these were political prisoners from Germany, as well as unwanted regimes: the priests, pacifists, drug addicts, prostitutes, homosexuals, criminals.And only later, when the war began, they became prisoners of the camp Gypsies, Jews, Poles, Russian, French.Here the prisoners not only physically exploited, but was (especially children) cruel medical experiments.In Buchenwald during the war was zammucheno, burned, poisoned and shot more than 55 thousand people from 18 nations, among them - 20 thousand. Soviet prisoners.
Now only the foundation has been laid out from a stone, reminds us that there were barracks for prisoners.
Liberation of Buchenwald
In April 1945, the war has rumbled on in Germany.Information about the occurrence of the Allied forces, and came to the camp of Buchenwald, April 11 prisoners who carried out the uprising, disarmed guards, while taking the camp leadership into their own hands.One day the camp was liberated advance units of the allied forces.The prisoners were saved.
April 11 - Day of liberation of Nazi concentration camps.The surviving prisoners of Buchenwald remember this day.
Camp "Doro»
Affiliates Buchenwald concentration camp and is located in Germany.For example, the island of Usedom located in the Baltic Sea, was the location of the Nazi secret factory producing V-2 rocket.In the years 1944-1945 these shells were fired at the city of Antwerp and London.
Once in 1943 a German base was destroyed, has earned a new missile factory in the Harz Mountains, near the town of Nordhausen.A large number of prisoners for fast start of the underground plant for the production of V-2 missiles.Production missile system located at a depth of seventy meters.Forty tunnels connecting two two-kilometer tunnel dug by prisoners.
April 11 - Day of liberation of Nazi concentration camps.Scenario SS was simple: all the prisoners, who worked on the underground plant, on the surface of living should not have come out.They have become hostages of the circumstances as bearers of state secrets.The camp "Doro" killed tens of thousands of prisoners.One V-2 rocket was equal to thirty lives.When the Red Army approached Nordhausen, the SS shot more than thirty thousand prisoners.
April 11 - Day of liberation of Nazi concentration camps.The tragedy of the Second World War should not be repeated.
script extracurricular activities
The purpose of such action - to tell students about the atrocities of the Germans during the war, cause them compassion to the nation, to notify the devastating effects of war on people.The recommended date - April 11 Day of liberation of Nazi concentration camps.Scenario pamyanogo matinee below.
plan measures:
- Leading tells about the crimes of the Nazis, as well as the largest concentration camps of the Germans.
- Invited war veterans talk about the past, the days of the war.
- presentation showing photographs with comments by leading.
- leading story about the life of prisoners in concentration camps.
- One student reads a poem Drobovskogo "Do not forget these stoves."
- Demonstration documentaries depicting the lives of the people in the concentration camps and the atrocities of the German soldiers.
- disciples ask questions of the presenter.
Anniversaries
In 1946, the Nuremberg Tribunal declared fascism crimes as crimes against humanity.
1991 - the year of creation of the Russian Union of former minor prisoners camps.For members of the alliance will remain bright date day liberation of Nazi concentration camps.A scenario in which the Nazis killed children should never happen again.
