Веймар - город в Германии, в нем родились и жили I. Goethe, F. Schiller, F. Liszt, I. Bach and other prominent people of this country. They turned the small town into a German cultural center. And in 1937, highly cultured Germans erected a concentration camp nearby for their ideological opponents: communists, anti-fascists, socialists and other disagreeable regimes.
Надпись на воротах Бухенвальда в переводе с German meant "to each his own," and the word "Buchenwald" literally "beech forest." The camp was built for especially dangerous criminals. Jews, homosexuals, Roma, Slavs, mulattoes and other racially "inferior" people, "subhumans", appeared later. The true Aryans put into the term “subhuman” the fact that this likeness of a person, being in a spiritual sense, is much lower than a beast. This is a source of unbridled passion, the desire to destroy everything around, primitive envy and meanness, not covered by anything. But the most important thing is that these are not individuals of a people, but entire nations and even races. The Nazis believed that as a result of the coming to power of the Bolsheviks, the most degenerate people on Earth began to rule the country, while the Communists were innate criminals. After the attack on the USSR, Soviet prisoners began to arrive at the camp, but almost all of them were shot.
So, for a few days in September 19418483 people were killed. The counting of Soviet prisoners was not conducted at first, so it is impossible to establish how many people were shot. The reason for the shootings is trivial. The International Red Cross could supply prisoners of war with parcels from home, but the USSR had to give lists of the prisoners, and no one needed the prisoners. Therefore, by the spring of 1942, 1.6 million Soviet prisoners remained, and in 1941 there were 3.9 million of them. The rest were killed, died of starvation, disease, froze in the cold.
At the Nuremberg process, documents were announced onwhich the Nazis intended to destroy the population in the occupied territories: 50% in Ukraine, 60% in Belarus, up to 75% in Russia, the rest were to work for the fascists. In September 1941, Soviet prisoners of war appeared in Germany. They were immediately forced to work, including in military factories. Professional military and patriots did not want to work for the enemy. Those who refused were sent to concentration camps. And for them was intended the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald. Weak and professionally unfit were destroyed, and the rest were forced to work.
Работаешь – кормят, не работаешь – голодный.And so that the "nonhumans" understood, 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 camp chief Elsa Koch selected novices with interesting tattoos and made lampshades, handbags, purses, etc. from their skin, and gave her girlfriends — wives of guards from other camps — in this procedure. The heads of some of the dead were dried to the size of folded fists. Doctors have tested on people frostbite, typhus, tuberculosis and plague vaccines. Conducted medical experiments, organized epidemics and tested means of combating them. Pumped blood for the wounded, and not 300-400 grams, but all at once. Describing even a part of the horrors that prisoners have experienced does not raise a hand.
The inscription on the gate of Buchenwald must be perceivedtaking into account the high education of the German society. For him, the people were only the Aryans, and all the rest are subhuman, “Untermensch,” they are not even people, but only resemble people. Their fate, with the complete victory of national socialism, is only slavery and life as a working cattle. And no democracy. That was the idea from which the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald was born. Since the beginning of April 1945, under the leadership of an underground international organization of resistance, prisoners have ceased to submit to the camp administration. Two days later, having heard the cannonade from the west, the camp rose to revolt. Breaking the barbed-wire barbed wire in many places, the prisoners seized the SS barracks and nearly 800 guards. Most of them were shot or torn by hands, and 80 people were taken prisoner. On April 11, at 15 hours and 15 minutes, the independently liberated camp occupied a battalion of Americans. They restored the fence, drove the prisoners into the barracks and ordered them to hand over their weapons. Only the battalion of Soviet prisoners did not surrender their weapons. On April 13, the gates of Buchenwald opened wide - Soviet troops entered the camp. This is the end of the Hitler history of Buchenwald. Of the 260,000 people who got 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.
