Auschwitz Concentration Camp

 

Nazi Germany was one of the most horrible states in history.  In the regime launched by Adolf Hitler, who was a power that could not be challenged by anyone who came through democracy and gradually concentrated power, even the dissident Germans, who were named as enemies of the state, were subjected to bitter torture and death.  As a final solution for Europe's Jewish population, which Hitler saw as a challenge, several concentration camps with gas chambers were established in Europe.  To these concentration camps, Jews living in Germany and all the conquered states of Europe were gathered en masse, mass-murdered in gas chambers and their bodies were burned to death.

In history, the world's most crimes against humanity have been committed by governments seeking power.  Sometimes they commit crimes against all the progressives who oppose their activities in an illegal manner, and at other times by making the crimes legal.  But they never allow their crimes to be revealed.  He does everything he can to bury his criminal history.  It was as true then as it is today.

These activities were carried out by the Nazi military and especially the Gestapo police.  That is, these activities were legal according to the Nazi state.  The Gestapo police were also particularly involved in suppressing dissidents

The closest event to the start of World War II was Hitler's invasion of Poland.  It was on September 1, 1939.  One month and five days later, on October 6, Poland was completely under German control.  The most murderous concentration camps were built in Poland.  Auschwitz is one of them.  The number of murders committed here is approximately 1.1 million.  The steel walls, scratched by the nails of women, men, and children who died in agony in the gas chambers, still tell the world its memories.  Its memories repeat the extent of the inhumanity of racism and war.

 

Scratches on the wall from gas chamber victims

After 1944, their gradual decline marked Germany's unexpected decline during World War II.  By April 1945, the Soviet Red Army had broken through all German fortces in Eastern Europe and reached Berlin, Germany.  In November 1944, Gestapo police chief and one of the creators of the 'Final Solution', Heinrich Himmler, issued a special order to destroy the gas chambers in Auschwitz.  But this was against Hitler's orders.  Because Hitler's unchanging order was to exterminate all remaining Jews in Europe immediately.  By this time, the army and government were collapsing, so this was a preparation for the end of the Nazi leaders.

But Auschwitz officials followed Himmler's orders and began evacuating the gas chambers.  The Soviet Red Army advancing from the east attempted to destroy the gas chambers with dynamite before arriving at Auschwitz, but the Nazis unexpectedly left the wreckage behind.  On January 27, 1945, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz camp and rescued about 7,000 dying prisoners.  These concentration camps were used not only for Jews, but also for the killing of Soviet prisoners of war, who were also found during the liberation

This left the most vulnerable, and the remaining 60,000 prisoners were marched to Germany on Himmler's orders.  It was indeed a death march.  During the journey there was no food or water and all who were weak were shot.  Attempts to escape usually resulted in being shot at.

 Himmler's aim was to take the prisoners sent to Germany and employ them as slaves in Germany.  A group of people were sent by train to Germany.  Another part escaped, and there is no specific report about the dead.

               A rescued Soviet child

Again on a Gestapo order, a group came to kill all the remaining prisoners in the camp, and about 700 were killed.  Moreover, they destroyed the written records of the camp.  When the Red Army arrived on January 27, there were starving prisoners, children undergoing medical examinations, and many criminal evidences that Nazis could not destroy.  There was also a stock of belongings belonging to the prisoners who were taken back.  In addition, 7.7 tons of hair, 370,000 pieces of men's clothing, and 837,000 pieces of women's clothing and coats remained in storage.  Part of the remaining 7000 people saved their lives with the help of the Red Army, while the rest died due to diseases and starvation.  It is also special that there was no mention of this historic rescue on January 27th in the newspapers of the Western countries including the United States at that time.

Trying abandoned the details of his crimes, which Nazis tried to erase from history, were eventually revealed by those who escaped from the concentration camps on various occasions and survived after liberation.  Today, Auschwitz is a restored, preserved, museum designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  This memory is for all the people who inherited the painful death there.