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Re: NAZIS: HORRIFIC Torture Of Prisoners Of Buchenwald
The HORRIFIC Torture Of The Prisoners Of Buchenwald
Throughout the Second World War, there were many concentration camps used by the Third Reich to inflict suffering onto prisoners.
12 Aug 2022 TheUntoldPast
The day Buchenwald was liberated
One of the largest camps was Buchenwald, and it's estimated that over 55,000 prisoners were killed there and never made it out of the barbed wire fences.
It housed around 280,000 prisoners throughout it's time in operation from 1937 to 1945. But inside the camp, there were many guards who were notorious for their brutal punishment of prisoners and executions were carried out on a daily basis.
There was a special execution block at Buchenwald where 8000 Soviet prisoners were killed inside of, and the conditions at the camp were truly awful. Prisoners were expected to work until they died, and if they did not work hard enough they were punished, tortured or killed.
There was not enough food to go around, and many prisoners suffered from starvation and also diseases such as typhus which ran rampant at Buchenwald.
The camp was liberated by the Americans, and in the post war trials a number of former guards were sentenced to death for their war crimes.
Also the commandant Karl-Otto Koch was executed at the camp, and his wife Ilse Koch became known as 'The Witch of Buchenwald.'
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