It's hard to live without thinking of yourself

Freddie 2022-01-12 08:01:14

Before I talk about it, let’s look at a set of statistics.

During the Second World War, there were about 60 million deaths and 6 million Jews. The

Second World War broke out in 1939 and lasted 6 years. More than 60 countries and regions participated in the war. , Affecting more than 2 billion people.

The two sides of the war mobilized more than 100 million troops. During the war, the death toll reached 50 million, the direct war cost was 1,352 billion U.S. dollars, and the property loss was as high as 4 trillion U.S. dollars.

I don't know if you have noticed that the death toll of the Jews accounts for one in ten, and

the cruelty of the war is so exhausted.



In 1933, a new party came to power, the National Socialist German Workers' Party led by Nazi Germany.

The country cannot have different voices and races, nor can there be complaints or quarrels.

The new country began to operate, and concentration camps were built like hotels and sports fields, in all styles.



At the same time, workers, students, businessmen, teachers and other people of Jewish descent have been arrested everywhere.

These people have been arrested accidentally, by mistake or occasionally,

but they all have the same direction, that is, towards Concentration camp marched.



The Jews were rushed to the train station.

A hundred people squeezed into a carriage, and then was sealed and locked.

There are no day and night in the carriage, only hunger, thirst, suffocation and madness.

Every time you arrive in the camp carriage, a large number of corpses who cannot stand the sultry environment will always be dragged out.

Their eyes on the door of the car were blank and at a loss.

They might not know that the moment they set foot on the train, it meant that this was a "death train" to the grave.



After arriving at the concentration camp, the first step was to disinfect the bathhouse . Under the

pretext of hygiene, everyone was asked to strip off their clothes, stand naked in the square,

shave, tattoo, and stab their bodies with numbers representing their identities.

Then they were divided into incomprehensible levels, wearing blue uniforms.

Sometimes they are graded by religious orders, called "Night and Fog."

Political prisoners wear red triangles, and other ordinary prisoners wear green triangles.



The higher level is the prisoner's head, almost all ordinary prisoners.

The life of these prisoners is several times higher than that of prisoners.

They have separate rooms to store items and receive cronies at night.

In addition, they also have a brothel for entertainment. The women in the brothel are all brightly arranged young women selected from the concentration camp.

They were locked in a floor with no exit, and they had food to eat. Sometimes they would throw a few slices of bread to their friends outside the window.

Despite this, their destiny could not be changed, and they were still

waiting for their doomed death.



The more advanced is the Nazi SS, who is aloof and greets ten feet away.

Otherwise, it is either death or injury or death.

The most senior is the commander, who oversees daily affairs. They often pretend to be ignorant of concentration camps.

They have special villas, and there are well-equipped hospitals and entertainment venues around them.



After introducing the leadership level, let's take a look at the living environment of the prisoners.


How is the stay?
The barracks are thin wooden structures with large gaps between the wooden boards, making it difficult to withstand rain and snow.

There are three people in a wooden house, and the space between the top and bottom is only enough for ordinary adults to lie flat and not raise their heads.

The so-called mattresses are just cloth bags filled with mud and sand, and the so-called beds are just wooden frames covered with straw.

The disease is prevalent in the concentration camp.

Prisoners live in fear every day, because everyone knows in their hearts that death will come at any time.

Many people also often fight for blankets, which leads to reports and curses.



In addition, prisoners have to deal with various names inspections,

For example, the clean Nazi SS requires prisoners not to have lice,

otherwise they will be served with 20 batons first, and then they will not be fed or allowed to sleep in the barracks, leaving them to fend for themselves.

Their daily routine is:

wake up at dawn, make the bed; roll the call in the morning, work at the camp, work hard for a long time, line up for a poor meal; return to the camp, check in the cell, and roll the call at night.

During the roll call, regardless of the weather, prisoners in extremely thin clothes must stand still and stand quietly for several hours.

No matter who it was, as long as he fell or even missed his foot, he was killed.

The prisoner had to be full of energy, just to survive a day of torment.

To them, being alive is fear without end.



When the staircase in the picture above was built, 3,000 Spaniards died.

This ladder leads to the Mortasen quarry. They work in the underground factory.

Whether it is December, when the snow is freezing, or August, when the heat is extremely hot, they work for a long time.

So some people will fall because of cold, thirst and dysentery.

At this time, the prisoners have a job to count the number of people who die every day.



Since it is such a physical labor, how do they eat?

Their only food is soup.

Every tablespoon is priceless. If you eat one tablespoon less, you will live one day less, and 2 to 3 cigarettes will be exchanged for a bowl of soup.

Those who are weak cannot resist the looting of others, so they can only eat snow and mud.

Perhaps, one day they will die alone somewhere.



Do those who are lucky enough to have food live well? wrong.

Looking at their skinny bodies, almost a breeze can blow them down.

I am afraid we can't think of such a picture only by imagination

. The title of "paper man" is considered a good body for them.



In addition to standing guard and surveillance, the soldiers also had an entertainment activity.

That is looking for opportunities to put the prisoners to death, insulting and punishing them at every turn.

Between 1940 and 1945, the total number of people who were lucky enough to escape from Auschwitz was only 200,000, but the total number of deaths was 1 million-1.5 million.

The usual punishment for escapees is starvation, shooting, or death. Fleeing families will also be arrested and displayed in the camp to intimidate other prisoners.

All the prisoners can do is pray to God to end their lives soon.



There is a daunting death wall in the concentration camp, a wall in the courtyard between Building 11 and Building 12.

Under the wall, I don’t know how many prisoners shot by the Nazis fell.

Now there is a small sign in the courtyard, which says: "Please keep quiet and don't disturb the peace of the victims."



In such an environment, only despair was left in their eyes.

But people are tough. Although the body is exhausted, the brain is still working.

Wrap a bandage while working, and hide the spoons and puppets made to play with.

They secretly write letters and slips of paper, make their minds flexible and keep their dreams, and they speak to God.

They also organized political groups to oppose the management of daily affairs by ordinary criminals.

They share food and help each other.

Finally, the person who is about to die is sent to the hospital with a painful mood,

and waiting for the patient is just another different way of death.



It looks like a veritable hospital from the outside, but there may not necessarily be beds inside.

The medicine is fake, and the medical clothes worn are made of paper.

All pains and diseases are treated with a kind of ointment, and sometimes hunger sickness eats clothes.

In the end, all the patients were the same,

turned into corpses, staring at staring eyes without knowing their age.

There is still an operating area in the hospital, but it doesn't make any sense.

Their so-called surgery is meaningless cutting, head-cutting for headaches, and foot pain and stomping.

Sometimes the prisoner's head and the Nazi SS doctor colluded to sell the prisoner to a large chemical company to experiment with toxic products.



In 1942, Himmler visited the concentration camp.

Supervise the implementation of the "destruction" plan. The so-called "destruction" plan is just one word-kill.

Who is Himmler?

He was an advocate and agitator for the massacre of 6 million Jews, homosexuals, Communists, and 200,000 to 500,000 Roma in Europe, and the German Eastern Master Plan for the Soviet Union. He ordered the Auschwitz concentration camp. Construction is the biggest collaborator in history.



Some people were pulled on the train that was about to be scrapped, and the

train walked aimlessly on the rails. Then there was a loud noise, the

train blew up along with the tracks, and the people on the train naturally became dead souls.



Another group of people were burned in the cremation plant they built by themselves.

The crematorium can burn 8,000 corpses every day.



Some people were coaxed into the "bathroom", and people were looking up at the shower head.

Suddenly, all the lights went out, and people couldn't help screaming.

Then, the person closest to the nozzle swayed and fell. People knew it was not good and rushed to the gate.

The frightened people realized that bad luck was coming, and the crowd screamed.

Immediately afterwards, all the throats seemed to be stuck with one hand... 15 minutes later, the lights turned on, and the butchers observed the movement through the peephole. If anyone was still struggling, they would turn off the lights and wait for more than ten minutes.

Turning on the light, I saw that the portraits of the people who had just entered were suddenly taken off by something, and they were all angry. The corpses stood close to each other like wood. All the corpses were extremely hideous and terrifying. They were all bruised and bruised, suffering from suffocation and instinctive. Tugging at each other makes them entangled into a big tuft that can't be pulled apart.

Then the guards turned on the exhaust machine to extract the poisonous gas, and the "special team members" who could live a few more weeks opened the door to deal with the corpse.



Even after they die, they will suffer inhuman abuse.

Their gold watches, necklaces, rings and brooches were sent to pawn shops and converted into funds for the SS.

Their hair is woven into socks and carpets, tattooed skin is made into lampshades, fat is made into soap, and ashes are sold to farmers as fertilizer.

When the concentration camps were full, they sold the prisoners as commodities to large factories all over the world.



In 1945, the World Anti-Fascist War was victorious.

The Red Army of the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz, leaving only 7,650 prisoners alive, including more than 130 children.

The others are undoubtedly piles of corpses, bones that can't be pushed with a forklift, and

the eyes of the living people are full of holes. They have no idea whether they are free or what their final destination will be.



During the trial, the

prisoner head said: "It's not my fault." The

officer said: "It's not my fault."

Everyone pushed the crime to this war that was not led by them.

Although the war has subsided, we cannot close our eyes,

we cannot ignore our surroundings, and pretend that we cannot hear the constant crying of human beings.



After watching "Night and Fog", we can truly understand why the "comfort woman" Chen Lintao in the documentary "Twenty-two" said this sentence:

"I hope that China and Japan will always be friendly and not fight. Because once a war is fought, it will Many people have died

.

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Extended Reading
  • Kaylah 2022-01-12 08:01:14

    Complain, don't stop complaining. Reality cannot be forgotten. Without any modification or concealment, it uses unavoidable pictures and images to reach the extremes of evil and violence. The Nazi concentration camp is a purgatory beyond imagination. Gazing through the lens without being on the historical scene, the horror has been separated from the audience by a certain distance. Nevertheless, this half-hour documentary is still creepy, and the kind of shock surpasses "Schindler's List."

  • Jed 2022-03-22 09:02:28

    Although simplified, it shocked me more than Schindler's List. It can be foreseen that the shock and influence on Europe and the world at that time must include Spielberg.

Night and Fog quotes

  • Récitant/Narrator: Grass flourishes on the inspection ground around the blocks. An abandoned village, still heavy with peril. The crematoria are no longer used. The Nazi's cunning is but child's play today. Nine million dead haunt this countryside.

  • Récitant/Narrator: Who among us keeps watch over this strange watchtower to warn the arrival of our new executioners? Are their faces really different from our own?