One of the most horrific terms in history was used by Nazi Germany to designate human beings whose lives were unimportant, or those who should be killed outright: Lebensunwertes Leben, or "life unworthy of life". The phrase was applied to the mentally impaired and later to the "racially inferior," or "sexually deviant," as well as to "enemies of the state" both internal and external. From very early in the war, part of Nazi policy was to murder civilians en masse, especially targeting Jews. Later in the war, this policy grew into Hitler's "final solution", the complete extermination of the Jews. It began with Einsatzgruppen death squads in the East, which killed some 1,000,000 people in numerous massacres, and continued in concentration camps where prisoners were actively denied proper food and health care. It culminated in the construction of extermination camps -- government facilities whose entire purpose was the systematic murder and disposal of massive numbers of people. In 1945, as advancing Allied troops began discovering these camps, they found the results of these policies: hundreds of thousands of starving and sick prisoners locked in with thousands of dead bodies. They encountered evidence of gas chambers and high-volume crematoriums, as well as thousands of mass graves, documentation of awful medical experimentation, and much more. The Nazis killed more than 10 million people in this manner, including 6 million Jews. (This entry is Part 18 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II)

Warning: All images in this entry are shown in full, not screened out for graphic content. There are many dead bodies. The photographs are graphic and stark. This is the reality of genocide, and of an important part of World War II and human history.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/10/world-war-ii-the-holocaust/100170/



1. An emaciated 18-year-old Russian girl looks into the camera lens during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in 1945. Dachau was the first German concentration camp, opened in 1933. More than 200,000 people were detained between 1933 and 1945, and 31,591 deaths were declared, most from disease, malnutrition and suicide. Unlike Auschwitz, Dachau was not explicitly an extermination camp, but conditions were so horrific that hundreds died every week.



2. This photo provided by Paris' Holocaust Memorial shows a German soldier shooting a Ukrainian Jew during a mass execution in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, sometime between 1941 and 1943. This image is titled "The last Jew in Vinnitsa", the text that was written on the back of the photograph, which was found in a photo album belonging to a German soldier.



3. A German in a military uniform shoots at a Jewish woman after a mass execution in Mizocz, Ukraine. In October of 1942, the 1,700 people in the Mizocz ghetto fought with Ukrainian auxiliaries and German policemen who had intended to liquidate the population. About half the residents were able to flee or hide during the confusion before the uprising was finally put down. The captured survivors were taken to a ravine and shot. Photo provided by Paris' Holocaust Memorial.



4. Jewish prisoners in Buchenwald concentration camp, after the liberation of the camp in 1945.



5. American soldiers silently inspect some of the rail trucks loaded with dead which were found on the rail siding at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, on May 3, 1945.



6. Bodies lie piled against the walls of a crematory room in a German concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. The bodies were found by U.S. Seventh Army troops who took the camp on May 14, 1945.



7. A U.S. soldier inspects thousands of gold wedding bands taken from Jews by the Germans and stashed in the Heilbronn Salt Mines, on May 3, 1945 in Germany.



8. Three U.S. soldiers look at bodies stuffed into an oven in a crematorium in April of 1945. Photo taken in an unidentified concentration camp in Germany, at time of liberation by U.S. Army.



9. This heap of ashes and bones is the debris from one day's killing of German prisoners by 88 troopers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar in Germany, shown on April 25, 1945.



10. American soldiers walk by row after row of corpses lying on the ground beside barracks at the Nazi concentration camp at Nordhausen, Germany, on April 17, 1945. The camp is located about 70 miles west of Leipzig. As the camp was liberated on April 12, the U.S. Army found more than 3,000 bodies, and a handful of survivors.



11. A dead prisoner lies in a train carriage near Dachau concentration camp in May of 1945.



12. Liberating soldiers of Lt. General George S. Patton's 3rd Army, XX Corps, are shown at Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945.



13. General Patch's 12th Armored Division, forging their way towards the Austrian border, uncovered horrors at a German prison camp at Schwabmunchen, southwest of Munich. Over 4,000 slave laborers, all Jews of various nationalities, were housed in the prison. The internees were burned alive by guards who set fire to the crude huts in which the prisoners slept, shooting any who tried to escape. Sprawled here in the prison enclosure are the burnt bodies of some of the Jewish slave laborers uncovered by the US 7th Army at Schwabmunchen, May 1, 1945.



14. Some of the skeleton-like human remains found by men of the Third Armored Division, U.S. First Army, at the German concentration camp at Nordhausen on April 25, 1945, where hundreds of "slave laborers" of various nationalities lay dead and dying.



15. Starved prisoners, nearly dead from hunger, pose in a concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria, on May 7, 1945. The camp was reputedly used for "scientific" experiments.



16. German SS troops load victims of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp into trucks for burial, in Belsen, Germany, on April 17, 1945. British guards hold rifles in the background.



17. A pile of bodies left to rot in the Bergen-Belsen camp, in Bergen, Germany, found after the camp was liberated by British forces on April 20, 1945. Some 60,000 civilians, most suffering from typhus, typhoid and dysentery, were dying by the hundreds daily, despite the frantic efforts by medical services rushed to the camp.



18. A German mother shields the eyes of her son as they walk with other civilians past a row of exhumed bodies outside Suttrop, Germany. The bodies were those of 57 Russians killed by German SS troops and dumped in a mass grave before the arrival of troops from the U.S. Ninth Army. Soldiers of the 95th Infantry division were led by informers to the massive grave on May 3, 1945. Before burial, all German civilians in the vicinity were ordered to view the victims.

Chai

Nawa o,so ppl suffer all these things and na em U.S and IRAN wn start dia own,may God deliver dem

Well if a war will happen which I pray with all my heart it doesn't, the things done in these pictures will be 1% compared to what will happen. There won't be bodies to bury.

Ever wondered why they are called hell fire missiles? It instantly cremates. Sadly na only comment we fit comment. The main bigwigs won't consider this. Imagine Iran send guided missiles go bomb American facilities in Iraq. Iran o. Which kind offence or defence we get? Apart from the few jets and rickety armoured tanks. For if a war starts... We will be pulled into it.

Oh fucking hell.
My fear is Nigerians cant be neutral in this war and will stupidly involve herself.

We are already burning US flag. If US face us now, is it our AK47 soldiers that will fight American missiles?
Chai, My country, my country, hallowed be thy name

Speechless

War no good ooo. Hw ww3 go be?

Hmmnmm and they still want to start another one......

Hmmm "man's inhumanity to man"

What a world...we don't need war let peace rain.

dukeprince50:
Oh fucking hell.
My fear is Nigerians cant be neutral in this war and will stupidly involve herself.

We are already burning US flag. If US face us now, is it our AK47 soldiers that will fight American missiles?
Chai, My country, my country, hallowed be thy name

Figure out the sarcasm and apply.

Sometimes I don't blame Israel for being overly defensive.

ElRapido:


One of the most horrific terms in history was used by Nazi Germany to designate human beings whose lives were unimportant, or those who should be killed outright:

Lebensunwertes Leben, or "life unworthy of life".

The phrase was applied

to the mentally impaired and later

to the "racially inferior,"

"sexually deviant,"

to "enemies of the state" both internal and external.

From very early in the war, part of Nazi policy was to murder civilians en masse, especially targeting Jews.

Later in the war, this policy grew into Hitler's "final solution", the complete extermination of the Jews.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out....
because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out...
because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out....
because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me.... and there was no one left to speak for me.
Martin Niemoller....German Lutheran Pastor who ended up being imprisoned by the Nazis.

@ the quote..... we are sooo guilty of showing no interest... let alone speaking out against the wrongs that we see because it does not affect us... nor our political party... nor our religion nor our tribe. We only speak out when it affects us... but who will listen then?

@ topic.... again. History is a good teacher. How can humans do such to their fellow humans? Conditioning. It wasn't overnight.... took years to condition the masses. The handicapped adds nothing to society... a burden to society keeping them alive. It is better to humanely put them to sleep.. and people bought in. Then the same for the mentally ill... until it came to the Jews.... by then it was no big deal.
We need to pay attention.
Lastly.... after going through thus holocaust... one should wonder why are the Jews on the same page with Hitler in their treatment of the Palestinians?

People kill People...

After every every there wasn't no one to save the world but America... This shows that without America the world would have ended a long time ago
That shows how useless the world really is without them



Pukes

Hitler the supposed CHRISTAIN

A war between this two sides would surely be ferocious, but at the end of the day we know who will emerge victorious.

GeniusWannabe:

Figure out the sarcasm and apply.

I couldn't figure it out bro.

Care to explain?..

Thanks.

how people subject their fellow human to such barbaric acts and still have the courage to sleep at night is a mystery I can't unravel.

GeniusWannabe:

Figure out the sarcasm and apply.

Hmm. No hope for this country be dat ooo

.k21

peteruuu:


I couldn't figure it out bro.

Care to explain?..

Thanks.

She said the "H" in "NIGERIA" stands for "HOPE" , but there's no "H" in that spelling. Since there's no "H" which stands for "hope" , it means that there's no hope in Nigeria.

Following

Now this is the real shiit!!


Most of NLanders yelling upandan will calm dafuq down now!

This is hell on earth

Upon all this almost all the countries are doing well and developed...
But see Nigeria up till now we are still struggling.

When it starts, even those that didn't owe will pay.. May God help us.. I hope Mars colonization is ready

war isnt good at all

go watch band of brothers
saving private ryan
stalingrad
generation war
etc


then u will see the evil of war, u will loose ur conscience, haman sympathy and became the devil because the war has taught u to be so

What about Biafra casualties


Nigerians are hypocrites, crying for what happened in far away Europe but rejoicing over the horrifying deaths of their fellow countrymen killed by Northerners in 1966 pogrom!!

Lonelypacifist6:
Sometimes I don't blame Israel for being overly defensive.

Overly defensive or becoming the new hitler