Nazi Germany is the period between 1933 and 1945, under the administration of the National Socialist German Workers Party, with a one-party system of government. The German Workers’ Party, headed by Adolf Hitler, is known for its short name as the Nazi Party. People who are members of the party, stand behind it and defend its ideology are called “Nazis”.
The Nazis made the world more dangerous than it was and became the meaning of deadly terror. The unbelievable torture methods of the German Nazis and the pain they inflicted turned into wounds that could not be cured. The concentration camps where the Nazis killed and tortured people are quite famous. These death camps were divided into 2 parts. Some were extermination camps designed to kill people, and some were camps designed for experimentation under the name of prison. The first concentration camp, Dachau, was built in 1933, just after Hitler came to power. By the end of the war, 1200 camps were established, consisting of 22 base camps. The corpses and the images of half-dead people that emerged in some of the camps captured in 1925 shocked the world.
The Racist Policy Followed by the Nazis
Germany; of Adolf Hitler While he was under his rule, it occupied 24 countries, including France, Italy, Greece, the Soviet Union and Finland, in just 10 years and turned into a superpower. Since technology is developing so fast, no power has been able to stand against it. For example, when it declared war on Poland, Poland was able to attack German tanks with mounted cavalry and they were all massacred in a few days. Thanks to the submarine they developed, the Nazis also ruled in the Atlantic Ocean and reached New York.
The Nazis persecuted other peoples with a plan to create the pure German race and make it the supreme race. It has also targeted many other groups of people with the discrimination of racism. These consist of peoples such as Roma, Slavic peoples (Poles and Russians), Soviet prisoners of war, black people, some socialist groups, people with disabilities, homosexuals. People in these groups died from various persecutions by the Nazis. As a definitive solution for the Jews in the regions occupied by Nazi Germany, their complete annihilation was considered and two out of every three Jews were killed.
What Does the Holocaust Mean?
The Holocaust is the genocide perpetrated against the Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies. As a result of systematic and state-sponsored persecution and massacres, 6 million Jews lost their lives. Holocaust, a word of Jewish origin, means “sacrifice in fire”. Nazis; They thought that the Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were a threat to the German community.
In the process leading up to the Holocaust; violence and genocide took place gradually. First, the Jews had to carry a band marked with a yellow star on their arms. They were forbidden to live in the city and millions of them were closed to hunger, thirst and misery behind 3-meter walls where they were sentenced. People were enslaved and worked in factories, thus increasing Germany’s industrial output tenfold.
In the following months, millions of Jews were taken to the extermination camps by train and 6 million Jews, 1 million of whom were children, were massacred there. In addition, around 10 million people in total, including Germans, homosexuals, disabled people and gypsies who opposed Hitler, were brutally murdered by the Nazi regime.
Among the most distinctive features of the Holocaust is their use of humans for medical experiments. Injecting oil into the hearts of prisoners and exposing them to radiation while alive are some of these experiments. Children’s eyes were injected with blue ink, or their bodies were sewn together from their backs. Not all of the experimental work carried out by the Nazis is known. Because trucks full of documents were destroyed on the last day of the occupation.
Torture by the Nazis
Ilse Koch, one of the women who worked as a prison guard; She is among the cruelest women in human history. She is known for her fondness for tattooed bodies, she. She cut the tattoos from the skin of the Jews she killed and stuck them on her own body. She sometimes decorated human skins and made bags, gloves and even embroidered underwear. She was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1947. She got pregnant after having an affair with one of the guards in order to escape from prison and was released within two years.
One of the most used methods in extermination camps has been gas chambers. With this method, they inhaled poisonous gas and made things like buttons from their bones and soap from their fat after killing them. In fact, many items such as necklaces and ashtrays made of human limbs were made. prisoners held in camps; He was employed in the construction of buildings in the country, in the construction of roads, weapons and even in the construction of large furnaces where corpses were burned.
Shrunken skulls, split faces, or lampshades made of human skin are just some of the other Nazi atrocities. After the complete extinction of the Jews, Hitler even planned to open a museum called the Extinct Race Museum, which contained Jewish skeletons, body remains and some valuables.
During the Second World War, when an incredible amount of bombs was dropped, even the allied forces alone used 4 million tons of bombs around Europe and Asia. Ten percent of these bombs are still unexploded. Every year, 5500 bombs are produced from Germany alone.
The Second World War is the bloodiest conflict in human history. Between 1939 and 1945, it resulted in the deaths of 60 to 80 million people in total. 60 percent of the people who died were civilian citizens. During the Second World War, Nazi scientists in order to produce a super army; They have developed a strange drug mixture containing substances such as cotton and cocaine. When they give this drug to the subjects; While the subjects were on their backs with a 20-kilogram load for one day, they walked 90 kilometers without any fatigue.
