on Monday, 75 years ago, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated by advancing soviet troops. With the help of the Netherlands Institute for War documentation (niod) (netherlands institute for war documentation) answer the questions on the reactieplatform NUjij about Auschwitz have been made.

“The people who are “normal” job in the army, had not the elite,” says historian David Barnouw. “They were mostly in those areas have ended up as a volunteer, and she found out it was only when they were in the camp what had happened.”

at the same time, the prisoners were, by the convinced anti-semitic charge of the camps, and also to the security guards and staff to be fully deformed to the Untermenschen. “Germany was in all out war. For many Germans, the Jews were not the enemy. It was, in their eyes, only when these folks were completed as part of the battle.”

After the war, there have been hardly any security guards and any other staff members out of the camps continued. “And that’s what happened, they used to always say that she was in the kitchen and we worked on it and never had seen it. That risk seems pretty small, even the prisoners of the camps themselves and knew that there was gas chambers and what happened there.”

for A relatively recent example of this is the former kampbewaker Personal Hanning, who, as of 2016, at 94 years of age, the judge had to appear in front of his involvement in the atrocities at Auschwitz. He was deeply ashamed, and said, “I am not ashamed of my injustices were done, and I’m not against the have to resistance.

Hanning was also faced by former inmates and their next of kin. One of the survivors of Auschwitz, said this, “It may be that he is a changed man, but what has happened is that there is no excuse.”

in The experiments, which are nazidoctoren did were usually terrible, as is the (deadly) tests on twins by Joseph Mengele, or the sterilization experiments by Carl Clauberg. Scientists are also uncertain about the use of data from these experiments, as this data is in a very unethical manner, be obtained.

A good example is the research into hypothermia as a result of which, in Auschwitz, it was done. The Canadian, John Hayward, said: in the nineteen-eighties: “I want this data to be of use, but there is no other way.”

in Addition to the ethical part, there is also a scientific problem with the use of the nazigegevens. In the human experiments, such as those on hypothermia, were potentially unreliable data. The subjects were, after all, starving prisoners, and the data show, therefore, is not how healthy people react to a certain temperature.

The survivors of Auschwitz for several months to travel before they can get back home. The camp was liberated by the Russians, and so the survivors had to be from scandinavia, and features comfortable and affordable accommodation for your next break to travel, and then they were able to go to their country of origin.

at The reception of the people who had returned and was in the middle. “Some people were afraid of the spies, because they had all survived the war,” says historian Barnouw. “In addition, the Netherlands has a very poor handling of the national experiences during the second world war. When the Jews tried to make it clear as to what they had seen, they were often told that the Famine is also quite a privilege. We have, however, in speaking, of course.”

in the west, and the country was freed, and thus, in contrast to France and germany, did not have enough time to prepare for the return of the Jews and the other survivors of the concentration camps. “The political prisoners, resistance fighters, and the Dutch, who had been taken away due to forced Labour (forced to work for the German war economy, ed. had family and friends from whom they will go to sleep. But it is the Jews who have returned, often with their whole family, will be lost.”

no, No, a lot of Dutch people have had to work a lot of the stories are to be believe, when the survivors told of the horrors that had taken place in the country. During the First world War, the Germans had much more and better than the allied, made use of the nepnieuws as propaganda.

it was After the Second world War, the terrible stories of the extermination camps by a lot of people nepnieuws seen. “It is also, of course, an unfathomable madness, the planning, and the extent to which the Germans, the Jews, have been completed,” explains Barnouw off. The Germans had, before the war, but also the image of a just and civilised nation. “The people in the land of Goethe and Schiller, we expect this type of barbarism not at all.”

The selection process at Auschwitz. (Photo: )

now, as Far as is known, there were but very few to almost no German soldiers have their orders rejected. A controversial example is that of a person who is somewhat against it, it would have worked for a doctor, Hans Münch. In his own words, he refused to co-operate with it to select which of the prisoners had to die, and those who do not.

Münch argued, however, scientific experiments on people, but he could have done to make the prisoners life to be able to keep up. The subjects would, in the experiments, were killed, making Münch, his experiments in trying to extend it so these people have a longer life could continue.

The doctor was placed on trial for his involvement in the camp, but was found not guilty because of a number of prisoners, has confirmed that Münch them in a live account.

The extent to which the Jews knew what was going to happen in the concentration camps, it is still a matter of debate for historians. The Jews knew that the heavy would get,” says the historian Barnouw. “But there was no evidence that they knew that they were two days from the time of their departure from the Netherlands to kill me.”

“it’s certainly not in the letters they left behind for their family and loved ones. Or are the images of the jew in the train, got into the act. If they are knowing of the fact that they were to be killed, they should, at least, think its been so quiet on the train.”

A small number of the prisoners of Auschwitz managed to escape and told of the Allied military leaders, what was going on. And yet in the stop, this cruelty is not a priority. What is the story behind it? ( , NickC)

now, the question is answered in the next story.

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