Nazi crime
Nazi crime or Hitlerite crime (
Nazi crimes in Poland were perpetrated against tens of millions of
The definition of zbrodnia nazistowska also covers destruction of property, such as the destruction of Warsaw.
Types of crimes
Physical crimes
The crimes which were committed during the
The physical crimes which the Nazis committed also included "criminal assault on innocent and helpless victims"[4] and victims were "beaten, drowned, whipped, shot, ran over, strangled and gassed."[5] These crimes included sexual crimes or crimes that "were directed at women's genitalia."[6] Another 'popular' way the Nazis murdered people was to have them euthanized.[7] The Nazi crimes also included genocide.[8]
Property crimes
The
There were some individuals who excelled at carrying out Nazi crimes. Oswald Kaduk was notorious for his extermination practices because of the torture he committed on prisoners in Auschwitz. One of the torture techniques which he used was to "put a cane over a prisoner's neck and he stood on it until the prisoner died." He also would randomly shoot into a group of prisoners "killing whoever got in the way".[5] Many people would do what the German troops ordered them to do in order to keep their families alive. One Jewish man became a policeman in the ghetto where he lived and he later partook in its destruction because he was told that if he did so, his wife and daughter would live. His wife and daughter later died because they were forced into a gas chamber.[13]
Nazi hearings
Following the conclusion of World War II, Nazis were charged with crimes in many different court hearings.[14] Important changes were made to the Control Council Law No. 10 by the Allies because "German jurists exerted pressure on the Allies in order to prevent national or district courts from using Control Council Law No. 10."[15] The changes allowed the Allies to deal with "war crimes, conspiracy to commit war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity".[15]
"Defendants who had acted on their own initiative or who had shown base motives or excessive cruelty were murderers: many who had not exhibited such behavior (or against whom sufficient evidence of such behavior was lacking) were judged guilty of manslaughter according to the
See also
- Communist crime
- Nazi crimes against the Polish nation
- Nuremberg Trials
- Pursuit of Nazi collaborators
- The Holocaust
Notes
- ^ a b Blutinger, 274
- ^ "Nazi Camps". encyclopedia.ushmm.org.
- ^ a b c Walt, Vinenne. "Genocide's Ghosts." Time, 16 January 2008. Web. 10 Oct. 2012
- ^ Margalit, 227
- ^ a b Wittmann, 530
- ^ Wittmann, 531
- ^ Breitman, 12
- ^ Wittmann, 506
- ^ Breitman, 11
- ^ Margalit, 222
- ^ Wittmann, 524
- ^ Margalit, 223
- ^ Blutinger, 275
- ^ a b Breitman, 13
- ^ a b Wittmann, 508
- ^ Wittmann, 525
- ^ Wittmann, 511
- ^ Wittmann, 512
References
- Blutinger, Jeffrey C. "Bearing Witness: Teaching the Holocaust from a Victim-Centered Perspective." History Reference Center. Web. 13 Oct. 2012
- Breitman, Richard. "Lasting Effects of the Holocaust." History: Reviews of New Books 38.1 (2010): 1114. History Reference Center. Web. 10 Oct. 2012.
- Margalit, Gilad. "The Representation of the Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies in German Discourse after 1945." German History 17.2 (1999): 221–240. History Reference Center. Web. 11 Oct. 2012.
- Wittmann, Rebecca Elizabeth. "Indicting Auschwitz? The Paradox of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial." German History 21.4 (203): 505. History Reference Center. Web. 10 Oct. 2012