Second World War - a terrible time.Those people who caught it and remember the horrors that they had experienced, do not like to think about that period of his life.This is especially true of those unfortunates who have seen with their own eyes the Nazi death camps.
on this phenomenon a lot written and said, but less awful it ceases this does not in the slightest degree.
What is it?
so-called places for compulsory isolation objectionable ruling fascist regime people.Unlike prisons, virtually no rules of humanity were not guided by their creators.In the death camps could get anyone, including women, the elderly and even children.As a rule, even the survivors in those inhuman conditions became hopeless disabled.
Children who were imprisoned in camps, received the terrible mental disorder, not being able to forget all the horrors they have witnessed.
what they were for, what they were?
Germany of those years, these institutions were intended for terror and genocide against both civilians and prisoners of war.The residents are aware of them as "concentration camps", although this species was only one of many.The main type were forced labor camps and death camps in which people literally destroyed a pipelined manner.As events unfolded on all fronts, but far from favorable to Nazi Germany, the popularity of these varieties is growing.
for which they were created?
they were created immediately after coming to power of the Nazi regime.The first priority for them was victimization and physical destruction of dissenters people.Many believe that their organization Nazis began only with the beginning of World War II, but it is not so: in the same Dachau the first "branch" they opened in 1933, when still nothing like a crazy Hitler's plans to subjugate himself allpeace.
By the beginning of the war, the death camp held within its walls more than 300 thousand anti-fascists who were captured both in Germany and in the occupied countries.Most of them were built as time in the conquered territories.At first the Nazis pretended to erect the usual places for prisoners of war, many thought so until almost the end of the war.The truth was much worse: it turned out that the Nazis used the camp as a place where millions of people were destroyed physically.
We to this day do not know and have probably never be able to reliably find out how many people are actually killed the Nazi executioners.In the final stages of the war were frequent cases where the choicest, most capable SS Division until recently covered the "recycling" of camps, is the complete destruction of all prisoners and documents, which could tell the world about all the unspeakable atrocities of the Nazis.
Their real purpose
Americans and the British during the war very actively pushed the idea that in fact the death camps of the Third Reich did not exist.They say that all these objects - ordinary prison for prisoners of war.But this is not so.These terrible place existed: their main purpose was the physical destruction of people.The first killing of Slavs, Gypsies and Jews, who were considered "inferior" people.For maximum convenience to take away human lives, builders took care of efficient gas chambers and crematoria.
Many of the death camps of the Third Reich were aimed at disabled people and continuous destruction.When designing them irrelevant content people are not attached: it was assumed that their turn condemned prisoners will not wait more than a few hours.Through these places crematorium daily (!) Held by a few thousand people.By "death factory" are the following camps: Majdanek, Auschwitz, Treblinka others.Of course, this list of the death camps is far from complete.
how to treat prisoners?
All prisoners became completely powerless, their life is not worth anything, could kill them at any time, just "in the mood".All aspects of these accidents were strictly controlled.On the violators without further ado: often they were killed on the spot.But this was far from the worst fate as Nazi doctors are constantly required to conduct experimental next experiment.
how to divide the prisoners camps?
It should be noted that the first prisoners were classified by many parameters, including both race and place of detention, the reason for the arrest.Initially, all the prisoners were divided into four large groups: anti-fascists (political opponents), the same representatives of the "inferior races", as well as common criminals and "potentially undesirable elements."
All prisoners from the second group eventually were sent to Nazi death camps where they were killed en masse.They were at the slightest suspicion of disloyalty among the guards tortured SS, they were sent to the most difficult, dangerous and hazardous work.
Among the political prisoners sometimes come across even the members of the Nationalist Party, who were accused of some serious "crimes against the race", members of religious sects.Pleasing to the death camp could even listening to foreign news channel on the radio.
By "unreliable" absented gay people who are prone to panic, just unhappy.Oddly enough, but the "purebred" criminals were in the best position because they were used as an administration assistant supervisors;acted against them many privileges.
Decals camp prisoners
well known that people in camps is assigned a serial number.Much less is known about the fact that prisoners had to wear colored triangles on the left side of the chest and on his right knee, and the number of stripes on clothing.Only in Auschwitz it was applied directly to the human body in the form of tattoos.Thus, the "political" meant red triangle, criminals received a green icon, all the "unreliable" was black triangle, homosexuals wore pink, and Roma - brown.
to Jews requirements are stricter.In addition to the usual classification of the triangle, they relied more and yellow, and the clothes they necessarily supposed to sew "Star of David".In addition, especially isolated Jews who were guilty of diluting the "Aryan blood", dared to marry, or marry a representative of the "true Aryan race."Their yellow triangles deposited black border.
POWs were classified according to their country.So, the French were labeled "F", the Poles relied letter "P", and so on. D. Litera is "K" marked war criminals (Kriegsverbrecher), the sign "A" labeled the worst offenders of labor discipline (Arbeit - "work").All people with mental disorders should have on the clothing patch Blid, "a fool."If the administration is suspected of a prisoner in preparation for the escape, on his clothes (chest and back) applied to the red and white target, which allowed the guards to shoot in such accidents at the slightest suspicion of disloyalty on their part.
How many people were in the camps?
accepted that the Nazi death camps are no more than three or four dozen objects, but the reality is far worse.Historians have established that all in "corrective labor" institutions included more than 14 000 (!) Different kinds of organizations, each of which played a role in the elimination of millions of people.One only Europeans through their walls has been more than 18 million, with at least 11 million people were killed.
When the war was finally defeated Nazism, one of the most heinous acts of the Germans was precisely the German death camps.Their construction has been convicted in the Nuremberg Trials as "the gravest crime against humanity."At present time in Germany no distinction is made between people who had been detained in the camps and those who have been imprisoned in the "places equivalents concentration, corrective labor institutions."
But these places were among those that even now the thought of them resulting in tremors most experienced researchers and historians.Get at least a death camp Auschwitz.By the most conservative estimates, in its walls, killing more than half a million people.But their number included most adults, while in some places the Nazi monsters did not disdain to kill thousands of defenseless children, the eldest of whom was only 12 years old.
«Kurtengof»
But one of the most terrifying places was Salaspils death camp.His monstrous glory he received from the fact that it contained a lot of juvenile prisoners.It is located in Latvia, which "valiant soldiers of the Reich was freed from the yoke of Soviet occupation."
«liberate" highly successful: in this camp alone, a martyr killed at least 100,000 people.This rank is clearly undervalued, that's just the truth never set out: in 1944, all camp archives were meticulously destroyed during the evacuation.
What happened here?
«He was famous" Salaspils death camp incredible enormity of the crimes committed here.So, especially prevalent method murder of children was a complete draining their blood, which is then used in German hospitals and hospitals for the military.They also tested various methods of transplantation.
After the war, far away from the territory on which was located the children's camp of death, found a strange land that was literally soaked with some oil.The researchers, who began his study were in a terrible horror: in a huge pit, the land which had been mixed with human ashes, found the remains of unburned bones.Lots of.
All of them belonged to the five children - nine years old.As it turned out, almost all of them were "blood donors", the body that pumps literally dry.
Other "experiments»
The camp rampant infectious diseases, the main of which was measles.Of the children that were sick, they performed really inhuman experiments: they froze, starved, amputated limbs for the "establishment of limits of the human body."In addition, the "experimenters" accidents washed with ice water.
infection while quickly went deep into the body, the children died in terrible agony, agony and sometimes lasted for several days.
Like all death camps (there are photos in the article), this very actively used by the German "doctor" for testing new vaccines and antimicrobials.In the children tested new antidotes, which massively bullied their arsenic.It turns out resistance of pathogens gastrointestinal diseases to the then antimicrobial for which juvenile prisoners infected with typhoid fever, dysentery, and other diseases.
Conclusions
Any war is inherently extremely cruel and pointless.It does not solve conflicts, but only leads to the accumulation of brand new.But second Irova recalled that some war crimes have no statute of limitations, no grounds for forgiveness.
about the death camps in which millions of lives were taken away, we must always remember.Forget about such heinous crimes against human nature itself is by no means impossible, as it would be a betrayal of the memory of many, often anonymous victims.
