Weimar is a city in Germany; I. Goethe, F. Schiller, F. Liszt, I. Bach and other prominent people of this country were born and lived in it. They turned the small town into a German cultural center. And in 1937, highly cultured Germans set up a concentration camp nearby for their ideological opponents: communists, anti-fascists, socialists, and others who were not acceptable to the regime.
The inscription on the gates of Buchenwald in translation from German meant "to each his own, " and the word "Buchenwald" itself literally means "beech forest." The camp was built for especially dangerous criminals. Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Slavs, mulattoes and other racially "inferior" people, "subhuman", appeared later. True Aryans put into the term "subhuman" the fact that it is a likeness of a person who is spiritually much lower than a beast. This is a source of unbridled passions, the desire to destroy everything around, primitive envy and meanness, which is not covered by anything. But the most important thing is that these are not separate individuals of some people, but entire nations and even races. The Nazis believed that as a result of the coming to power of the Bolsheviks, the country began to be ruled by the most degenerate people on Earth, and the Communists are innate criminals. After the attack on the USSR, Soviet prisoners began to arrive at the camp, but almost all of them were shot.
So, in a few days of September 1941, 8, 483 people were killed. At first, Soviet prisoners were not counted, so it is impossible to establish how many people were shot. The reason for the executions is trivial. The International Red Cross could supply prisoners of war with parcels from home, but the USSR had to give lists of those captured, and no one needed prisoners. Therefore, by the spring of 1942, 1.6 million Soviet prisoners remained, and in 1941 there were 3.9 million people. The rest were killed, starved to death, disease, frozen in the cold.
At the Nuremberg trials, documents were announced according to which the Nazis were going to destroy the population in the occupied territories: 50% in Ukraine, 60% in Belarus, up to 75% in Russia, the rest were supposed to work for the Nazis. In September 1941, Soviet prisoners of war appeared in Germany. They were immediately forced to work, including at military factories. Professional military and patriots did not want to work for the enemy. Those who refused were sent to concentration camps. And the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald was intended for them. The weak and professionally unfit were destroyed, and the rest were forced to work.
Work - feed, do not work - hungry. And so that the "nonhumans" would understand, the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald was made so that it could be read from inside the camp. In the camp, the Nazis did what they wanted. For example, the wife of the head of the camp, Elsa Koch, selected newcomers with interesting tattoos and made lampshades, handbags, wallets, etc. from their skin, and gave written advice on this procedure to her friends, the wives of the guards of other camps. The heads of some of the dead were dried to the size of folded fists. Doctors tested frostbite, typhoid, tuberculosis and plague vaccines in humans. They conducted medical experiments, organized epidemics, and tested means of dealing with them. Blood was pumped out for the wounded, and not 300-400 gr., But all at once. To even describe part of the horrors experienced by the prisoners does not raise a hand.
The inscription on the gates of Buchenwald must be understood in view of the highly educated German society. For him, only Aryans were people, and all the rest were subhuman, "untranslated, " they are not even people, they just look like people. Their fate, with the complete victory of National Socialism, is only slavery and life as a working cattle. And no democracy. This is the idea behind the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald. From the beginning of April 1945, under the leadership of an underground international resistance organization, prisoners ceased to obey the camp administration. And two days later, having heard cannonade from the west, the camp rose to revolt. Tearing barbed wire fences in many places under tension, the prisoners captured the SS barracks and nearly 800 guards. Most of them were shot or torn with their hands, and 80 people were captured. On April 11, at 15 hours 15 minutes, a self-liberated camp took the battalion of Americans. They rebuilt the fence, drove the prisoners into the huts and ordered them to surrender their weapons. Only the battalion of Soviet prisoners did not surrender weapons. On April 13, the gates of Buchenwald opened wide - Soviet troops entered the camp. Such is the end of Hitler's history of Buchenwald. Of the 260, 000 people who fell into the camp, the Germans killed almost 60, 000. In total, almost 12 million people were killed in German concentration camps during the Second World War.
