Concentration Camps
"It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve."
- Reinhard Heydrich, as quoted in Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny by Edward Crankshaw, February 1941 |
The ARchitects of the Holocaust |
"Whether they were bank directors or mental cases, the people who were loaded on those trains meant nothing to me. It was really none of my business."
- Adolf Eichmann, as quoted in Religion and Public Education by Nicholas Wolterstorf |
Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazis built about 20,000 camps. They were either labor camps or extermination camps. Millions of political prisoners, Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Poles, Russians and other Peoples became prisoners. Two top Nazi officials, Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann, were responsible for the start of experimenting in the early 1940s. The main concentration camps where human experimentation took place were Auschwitz, Dachau and Ravensbrück. The experiments were cruel and often resulted in death, disfigurement or permanent disability.
“I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no person should witness: gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot by high school and college graduates.”
- Anonymous, in a letter describing how educated people killed in concentration camps
- Anonymous, in a letter describing how educated people killed in concentration camps