Weimar - a city in Germany, it was born and livedI. Goethe, F. Schiller, F. List, I. Bach and other outstanding people of this country. They turned a supernumerary town into a German cultural center. And in 1937 the highly cultured Germans set up a concentration camp for their ideological opponents: Communists, anti-fascists, socialists and other disliked regime.
The inscription on the gates of Buchenwald in translation fromGerman meant "to each his own," and the very word "Buchenwald" is literally "beech forest". The camp was built for especially dangerous criminals. Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Slavs, mulattoes and other racially "inferior" people, "subhuman", appeared later. In the term "subhuman", the true Aryans invested the fact that this semblance of a person, which is spiritually much lower than the beast. It is the source of unbridled passions, the desire to destroy everything around, primitive envy and meanness, not covered up by anything. But most importantly, these are not individual individuals of any nation, but whole nations and even races. The Nazis believed that as a result of the Bolsheviks coming to power, the most degenerate people on the Earth began to rule the country, and the Communists were innate criminals. After the attack on the Soviet Union, Soviet prisoners began to enter the camp, but almost all of them were shot.
Thus, in a few days of September 1941 killed 8,483 people. The account of the Soviet prisoners was not conducted at first, therefore it is impossible to establish how many people were all shot. The cause of the executions is trivial. The International Red Cross could supply prisoners of war with parcels from home, but the USSR was supposed to give lists of those taken prisoner, and prisoners were not wanted by anyone. Therefore, by the spring of 1942, there were 1.6 million Soviet prisoners, and in 1941 there were 3.9 million. The rest were killed, died of hunger, disease, frozen in the cold.
At the Nuremberg trial, documents werewhich the Nazis gathered in the occupied territories to destroy the population: 50% in Ukraine, 60% in Belarus, up to 75% in Russia, the rest had to work for the Nazis. In September 1941, Soviet prisoners of war appeared in Germany. They were immediately forced to work, including at military plants. Professional military and patriots did not want to work for the enemy. Those who refused, were sent to concentration camps. And for them the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald was intended. The weak and professionally useless were destroyed, and the rest were forced to work.
You work - feed, do not work - hungry. And so that "nonhumans" understood, on the gates of Buchenwald the inscription was made so that it was read from inside the camp. In the camp, the Nazis did what they wanted. For example, the wife of the camp chief, Elsa Koch, picked out the newcomers with interesting tattoos and from their skin made lampshades, handbags, wallets, etc., and her friends, the wives of the guards of other camps, gave written advice on this procedure. The heads of some of the dead were dried to the size of their folded fists. Doctors tested on people means against frostbite, typhoid, tuberculosis and plague vaccines. They conducted medical experiments, organized epidemics and checked the means of combating them. Blood was drained for the wounded, and not 300 - 400 gr., But all at once. Describe even a portion of the horrors experienced by prisoners, the hand does not rise.
The inscription on the gates of Buchenwald must be perceivedtaking into account the high level of education of German society. For him, people were only Aryans, and all the rest are subhuman, "untermenshi," they are not even people, they are just like people. Their fate, with the complete victory of National Socialism, is only slavery and life on the condition of working cattle. And no democracy. That's from what idea was born the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald. Since the beginning of April 1945 under the leadership of an underground international resistance organization, prisoners have ceased to obey the administration of the camp. And two days later, after hearing the cannonade from the west, the camp rose to rebellion. Having torn barbed wire fences in many places, the prisoners seized the barracks of the SS guard and almost 800 guards. Most of them were shot or torn, and 80 people were taken prisoner. April 11 at 15 hours 15 minutes, the liberated camp was occupied by a battalion of Americans. They rebuilt the fence, drove the prisoners into barracks and ordered them to surrender their weapons. The weapon was not handed over only to a battalion of Soviet prisoners. On April 13, the Buchenwald gate opened wide - Soviet troops entered the camp. This is the end of Hitler's history of Buchenwald. Of the 260,000 people who fell into the camp, the Germans destroyed almost 60,000. And in Germany, almost 12 million people were killed in German concentration camps during the Second World War.
