Nazi Crimes
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There are still many who think that the Nazi atrocities were only carried out by the SS, SS-Totenkopfverbände, Einsatzgruppen and Waffen-SS but not by the regular German Wehrmacht soldiers or Luftwaffe. However in recent years evidence has emerged that especially ‘das Heer’ were also responsible for atrocities and some even worse then the SS. Below
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It would of course be unfair to say that all Germans and Austrians were guilty of the atrocities carried out by their leaders. But it is also unfair to believe that no one of the ordinary citizenship knew what was happening. The excuse of “we didn’t know” should not always have been taken for granted.
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One of the aspects of WWII I find most disturbing is really what happened after the war, so many of the Nazi criminals got away with murder and were never brought to justice. Often helped by Nazi sympathizers or worse yer by allied forces. Aribert Ferdinand Heim (28 June 1914 – 10 August 1992)was an
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On the night of 9/10 November 1938, in an incident known as Kristallnacht—Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht (also referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass”), approximately 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. On that night,
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Besides the murders and genocide committed by the Nazi’s ,they didn’t shy away from stealing and plundering either. The plundering and stealing refers to art theft and other items stolen as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Third Reich by agents acting on behalf of the ruling
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Today marks the 76th anniversary of Aktion Erntefest (German: for Operation Harvest Festival), a mass shooting action by the SS conducted at the Majdanek concentration camp and its subcamps, the purpose of which was to liquidate the remaining Polish Jews in the Lublin reservation and the Lublin Ghetto, including its entire slave-labour camp workforce. The
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