The inscription on the gates of Buchenwald: to Each his own

Weimar is a city in Germany, it were born and lived Goethe, F. Schiller, Liszt, Bach and other great men of this country. They turned a provincial town into a German cultural center. And in 1937, the highly cultured Germans was erected next to a concentration camp for their ideological opponents: Communists, anti-fascists, socialists and other disagreeable to the regime. 
The inscription on the gates of Buchenwald in German meant “to each his own" and the word "Buchenwald" - literally, "beech forest". The camp was built for dangerous criminals. Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, Slavs, mulattoes and other racially "inferior" people, "subhuman", appeared later. The term ‘subhuman" true Aryans invested what is the likeness of a person in a spiritual sense is much lower than the beast. It is a source of unbridled passions, the desire to destroy everything around, primitive jealousy and meanness, is no cover. But the most important thing is not individuals some people and whole Nations and even races. The Nazis believed that the arrival to power of the Bolsheviks, the country has to manage the most degenerate people on the Earth, and the Communists are congenital criminals. After the attack on the USSR in the camp began to receive Soviet prisoners of war, but almost all of them were shot.

So, a few days of September 1941, killed 8483 man. The account of Soviet prisoners was not initially conducted, so it is impossible to establish how many people were all shot. The reason for the executions is trivial. The international Red cross were able to provide prisoners of war with care packages from home, but the Soviet Union had to give a list of captured, and the prisoners were useless. Therefore, in the spring of 1942 remained 1.6 million Soviet prisoners of war, and in 1941 they were 3.9 million. The rest were killed, died of starvation, disease, freezing in the cold.

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At the Nuremberg trials introduced the documents on which 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, in Germany, there were Soviet prisoners of war. They were immediately forced to work, including in munitions factories. Military professionals and patriots work for the enemy did not want. Those who refused were sent to concentration camps. And for them meant the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald. Professionally weak and useless destroyed and others were forced to work. Work – feed not working – hungry. And that “humans” realized on the gates of Buchenwald made the inscription to read it from inside the camp. In the camp the Nazis were doing what they wanted. For example, the wife of the camp commander Elsa Koch was selected newcomers with interesting tattoos and their skin made lamp shades, handbags, wallets etc., and to her friends - the wives of the guards from the other camps - were given written advice on this procedure. The heads of some of the dead were dried to the size of the folded fists. Doctors experienced in public funds against frostbite, typhoid, tuberculosis and plague vaccine. Carried out medical experiments, organized epidemic and tested means of dealing with them. Bled for the wounded, and 300 - 400 gr. and all at once. To describe even part of the horrors experienced by the prisoners does not raise a hand.

The inscription on the gate of Buchenwald should be taken given the high level of education of the German society. People were only Aryans, and all the rest – subhuman, "untermensch" they're not even human, but just like people. Their fate when the complete victory of national socialism – only slavery and life on the working cattle. And no democracy. Here some of the ideas born the inscription on the gates of Buchenwald. Since the beginning of April 1945 under the leadership of a clandestine international organization of the resistance the prisoners have ceased to obey the administration of the camp. And two days later heard from the West, the gunfire, the camp rose in revolt. Tearing in many places the barbed wire under tension, the prisoners seized the barracks of the SS guard and nearly 800 guards. Most of the shot, or torn by hand, and 80 captured. 11 April at 15 hours 15 minutes independently released camp occupied a battalion of Americans. They restored the fence, herded the prisoners into the barracks and ordered to surrender their weapons. Weapons are not handed over only a battalion of Soviet prisoners. April 13, the gates of Buchenwald wide open - got in the camp by Soviet troops. That is the end of the Nazi history of Buchenwald. Of the 260 000 people trapped in the camp, the Germans killed almost 60 000. But only in the German concentration camps in times during the Second world war was the destruction of almost 12 million.