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Operation T4: The Secrets Of The Nazi Regime

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Adolf Hitler set up concentration camps in Germany in 1933 to incarcerate opponents to his regime, leading to the creation of Evil killing factories for a kind of barbarism and genocide that is unique in the history of humanity. The Nazi regime surrendered on May 8th, 1945, leaving behind millions of victims and traumatized people, and research is still going on into the Nazi camps to understand the history of the camps and uncover the secrets of how Adolf Hitler's killing machine functioned. The most important details are that the number of Jews to be eliminated was 11 million, and that a secret operation invented the gassing process as early as 1939. Researchers have met the last survivors and archaeologists and have access to unseen remains …show more content…

The most important details in this text are that in December 1939, the Reich recruited people to man the secret operation known as Operation T4, which was designed to exterminate every physically or mentally handicapped person in the Reich. Hitler even signed a secret document protecting the murderers involved in the program, which was backdated to the 1st of September 1939 to make it seem like a war measure. The victims were transported in trucks to sanatoriums to undertake fake examinations, pushed into a shower room, and then incinerated in Crematory ovens. The program continued in secret until 1945, killing as many as 300 000 people and many of the techniques that ended up being used in the Holocaust were used in the T4 program. Many of the people who participated in the program ended up in the death camp, providing a training ground for the final solution.

In April 1940, a new camp was opened in Poland in a deserted military base. It was named Auschwitz and was designed to imprison the Polish Intelligentsia. Its director Rudolf Huss was an SS officer trained at saxonhausen and a disciple of ICA. The first 30 prisoners at Auschwitz were German criminals who were sent to set up the internal administration of the camps. By 1942, up to 20 000 prisoners were crammed into a section of the 28 blocks that made up the 20 hectares site. The living conditions were harsh, and the prisoner's clothes and …show more content…

In June 1942, a brothel was opened in The Malt housing Camp to increase the productivity of non-jewish prisoners, and block 24 at Auschwitz was turned into an outright brothel to serve the camp. Access to the brothel was reserved for prisoners who had received a yield bonus, and the rules surrounding the brothel were strictly defined by the camp inspector orate. The war was also a pretext for atrocities in the heart of the camps, with Doctor Joseph Mengele subjecting Auschwitz prisoners to the worst kinds of horrors, such as Lethal Injections and amputations, and experimenting castration as well as castration on gay prisoners. These experiments were classified as being top secret and were carried out in order to find drug to heal the results of mustard

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