In the 30s of the last century, Annie, a little girl captured by the Germans, climbed to the edge of the pit and begged the Nazi soldier with a shovel: "Uncle, can you bury me a little shallower, I'm afraid my mother won't find me..."
How unbearable it is to look at a kind little girl full of innocence and be killed by a cruel pit like this, this is simply an unspeakable crime. However, the madness of the Nazis was much more than that.
In the beginning, the Nazis did not carry out large-scale and blatant Holocaust in order to cover their faces, but carried out Jewish emigration.
However, as Nazi forms of warfare worsened, "immigrant Jews" almost ceased to exist, replaced by massacres or the expulsion of Jews into the ghetto, starvation of them, and murder of them.
Still, many Jews were strong enough to withstand the inhuman forced labor of the Nazis; Or lucky enough to escape into the forest.
But even survivors had to escape Nazi carnage after massacre for years before they survived World War II victory.
In the fall of 1935, the Nazi regime passed a series of Nuremberg Laws, which officially revoked the citizenship of German Jews and prohibited Aryans from intermarrying Jews. The long-term goal of the Nazi movement, the total extermination of the Jews, was taking shape.
For years, the Nazis debated how to solve the Jewish question, including physical destruction.
In 1939, Hitler publicly predicted that if the world fell into war again, he would completely destroy the Jews.
In Hitler's view, the European conflict escalated into a "world war" only after the United States entered the war in December 1941 due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. That is why the mad Hitler was determined to launch a long-brewing, systematic genocide.
In 1940, Romania rapidly impoverished thousands of Jews through a well-publicized campaign. Soon, decrees of forced Jewish labor and massacres across Romania were making headlines.
For example, in January 1941, vicious militants of the Iron Guard invaded Bucharest and murdered large numbers of Jewish residents.
Some 120 Jews were brutally whipped and beaten with metal rods, and some were forced to fetch water from bloody pools. In the local slaughterhouse, the demons also brutally dismembered several Jews.
Thousands of Jews in Iasi County were dragged out of their homes, many of them still wearing pajamas. For days, German and Romanian police, soldiers, and mobs committed brutal atrocities against identified Jews.
Jews were mercilessly mutilated by metal rods, rifles and stones, bodies piled up in the streets, and babies were not spared. The abuser then solemnly spat on them.
Thousands of Jews were also rammed into the death train, murdered along the way. As many as 13,000 Jews lost their lives in agony.
Under pretexts such as destroying what the Nazis considered the threat of so-called "Jewish-Bolshevism" and dealing with partisans, German troops systematically executed Jews in specific regions of Russia. Some commanders also encouraged soldiers to slaughter Jews on the grounds of completely eliminating the "Jewish-Bolshevik" threat.
In Siberia and Serbia, German commanders ordered the execution of Jewish refugees in retaliation for partisan raids.
In 1941 in Babi Yar, outside Kiev, with the permission of the German army, the most horrendous atrocities were committed, when the SS shot and killed as many as 33,000 Jewish men, women and children in deep pits.
However, the craziest thing was the Nazi killing of Polish Jews. Polish Jews were considered carriers of the epidemic, and most of the approximately 2.5 million Polish Jews were unable to do their jobs.
According to the Wannsee Conference, these incompetent people will soon be put to death. The deportations were frightening, while the Nazis insisted on Nuremberg's racial theory.
By July 1941, the Nazis felt it necessary to adopt a faster and more efficient mechanism of destruction. By this time, Nazi policy had reached its peak: they planned to commit genocide of 11 million Jews across Europe through forced slave labor or outright murder.
The plan was finalized at the highly classified Wannsee Conference in January 1942, when new genocide procedures were already operational.
The plan called for the systematic elimination of all Jews from Nazi-conquered Europe and Germany's allies, including those already concentrated in defined ghettos.
The Nazis will hunt down Jews all over Europe, transport them to the East in a ruthless and methodical manner, and then put into practice the "final solution" of the "Jewish question".
New or expanded concentration camps in Poland became major centers for systematic murder.
The camps in Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor were purely centers of extermination, and Jews, once transported across Europe, were soon sent to the gas chambers.
However, Auschwitz and Majdanek served as both slave labor sites and killing camps.
In addition to suffering from starvation, overwork, and atrocities, some prisoners were tortured, mutilated, or killed by SS doctors for human medical experiments.
They often go through slow, painful testing processes that are not even used in animal experiments.
When the war turned against Germany, the process of genocide accelerated. When the collapse of the Eastern Front forced the camps to close, living prisoners continued to endure deprivation of basic needs and near-death.
The SS forced them to move to Germany itself, where they would continue to work as slaves until they were finally liberated.
Resources:
[1] History of Nazi Germany. Joseph S. W. Bendersky
