The German concentration camp economy in World War II: Fake pounds, live experiments, soap made from human fat?

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When we mention World War II, the probability of the words "concentration camp" appearing in our minds is not high. Low. The Japanese army and the German army were quite fanatical about the concentration camp policy, because the concentration camps could serve their aggression and provide living subjects for medical experiments. They could even set up factories in the concentration camps to drive them to work and provide certain economic support for the regime. , let’s call it the concentration camp economy.

The German army sent all the enemies of the Third Reich to concentration camps, including Jews, Gypsies, and Hitler's political opponents. Concentration camps were initially only open in Germany. However, as the war machine started, the concentration camps set up by the German army were gradually moved to the occupied areas.

The German army paid great attention to these concentration camps, because these concentration camps were crucial to Germany, and their existence provided sufficient personnel and money for the German army's next actions.

Concentration camps were the source of labor force in the German war economy. In front of the gate of this type of concentration camp, there is a slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei", which means "Work makes you free." "I have to say that this trick of the German army was quite effective and gave the people in the concentration camp some hope of getting out alive.

During World War II, many German companies recruited concentration camp prisoners to work in their own factories, or sent their products to concentration camps and entrusted concentration camp managers to let the prisoners in the camps processing. However, prisoners in the camp never received any wages and were fed poorly.

After the war, many German companies admitted that they had used concentration camp prisoners for free, and they compensated the families of the victims. In fact, at that stage, these prisoners not only had to sew clothes and manufacture firearms for the German Wehrmacht, but sometimes they also had to print some fake pounds and invest them in England.

On the other hand, the concentration camps also became a selection area for the German army to conduct in vivo experiments. Joseph Mengele was one of the most notorious doctors in the German army, carefully selecting his subjects in concentration camps and subjecting them to gruesome experiments.

During this period, his favorite thing was the twins, and Mangler analyzed the effects of some of his drugs on the twins. The German army also conducted drug experiments in concentration camps, and distributed drugs to German army and navy soldiers to improve physical performance. They were initially trialled on concentration camp prisoners and were deployed to the army after passing the clinical stage.

As the war continued to advance, the German army sent more people into concentration camps. The gas chambers and furnaces inside the camps were operating day and night, and more and more people were tortured to death. There were huge difficulties in discarding the bodies, and at this time, a German company came up with the bizarre idea of ??using human fat to make soap. It was outrageous!

The horrific scenes of the German concentration camps are no less than the darkest history in human history. It is these histories that allow us to constantly remind ourselves to love peace and stay away from war.

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