Upvoting the post again!
The events described took place more than half a century ago.
This post was not created to incite hatred towards Ukrainians, forcing them to project a long-standing evil onto modern people. It only shows what atrocities accompanied fascism and how FEAR makes animals out of people.
Volyn massacre (Polish: Rzez wolynska) (Volyn tragedy, Ukrainian Volyn tragedy, Polish: Tragedia Wolynia) is an ethno-political conflict accompanied by mass destruction (Bandera) by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army-OUN (b) of the ethnic Polish civilian population and civilians of other nationalities, including Ukrainians, in the territories of the Volyn-Podolia district (German: Generalbezirk Wolhynien-Podolien), until September 1939 under the control of Poland, began in March 1943 and peaked in July of the same year.
In the spring of 1943 in Volhynia, occupied German troops began large-scale ethnic cleansing. This criminal action was carried out not by the Nazis, but by the militants of the Organization
Ukrainian nationalists who sought to "cleanse" the territory of Volhynia from the Polish population. Ukrainian nationalists surrounded Polish villages and colonies, and then proceeded to kill. They killed everyone - women, the elderly, children, infants. The victims were shot, beaten with clubs, chopped with axes. Then the corpses of the destroyed Poles were buried somewhere in the field, their property was robbed, and finally the houses were set on fire. In place of the Polish villages, only burnt ruins remained.
They also destroyed those Poles who lived in the same villages with the Ukrainians. It was even easier - there was no need to collect large detachments. Groups of OUN members of several people passed through the sleeping village, went into the houses of the Poles and killed everyone. And then the locals buried the killed fellow villagers of the “wrong” nationality.
In this way, several tens of thousands of people were killed, whose only fault was that they were not born Ukrainians and lived on Ukrainian soil.
Organization of Ukrainian nationalists (Bandera movement) / OUN (b), OUN-B /, or revolutionary / OUN (r), OUN-R /, as well as (for a short time in 1943) independent-powerful / OUN (sd), OUN-SD / (Ukrainian Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Banderi Rukh)) is one of the factions of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Currently (since 1992), the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists calls itself the successor to the OUN (b).
In the course of the “Map” study conducted in Poland, it was found that as a result of the actions of the UPA-OUN (B) and the Security Council of the OUN (b), in which part of the local Ukrainian population and sometimes detachments of Ukrainian nationalists of other movements took part, the number of Poles who died in Volhynia amounted to at least 36,543 - 36,750 people whose names and places of death were established. In addition, the same study counted from 13,500 to more than 23,000 Poles whose circumstances of death have not been clarified.
A number of researchers say that the victims of the massacre were probably about 50-60 thousand Poles, during the discussion about the number of victims on the Polish side, estimates were made from 30 to 80 thousand.
These massacres were a real massacre. An idea of its nightmarish cruelty of the Volyn genocide is given by a fragment from the book of the famous historian Timothy Snyder:
“The first edition of the UPA newspaper, published in July, promised a “shameful death” to all Poles who remained in Ukraine. The UPA was able to carry out its threats. Within about twelve hours, from the evening of July 11, 1943 to the morning of July 12, the UPA attacked 176 settlements .... During 1943, UPA units and special detachments of the OUN Security Service killed Poles both individually and collectively in Polish settlements and villages, as well as those Poles who lived in Ukrainian villages. According to numerous, corroborating reports, Ukrainian nationalists and their allies burned houses, shot or drove inside those who tried to flee, and those who could be caught in the street were killed with sickles and pitchforks. Churches full of parishioners were burned to the ground. In order to intimidate the surviving Poles and force them to flee, the bandits exhibited beheaded, crucified, dismembered or disemboweled bodies.
Even the Germans were amazed at their sadism - gouging out eyes, ripping open stomachs and brutal torture before death were commonplace. They killed everyone - women, children ...
The genocide began in the cities. Men of the “wrong” nationality were immediately taken to prisons, where they were later shot.
and violence against women took place right in broad daylight for the amusement of the public. There were many people among the Bandera people who wanted to stand “in line” / take an active part ...
She was lucky .. Bandera forced to go on her knees with her hands up.
Later, the Bandera people got a taste for it.
On February 9, 1943, Bandera from the gang of Pyotr Netovich, under the guise of Soviet partisans, entered the Polish village of Parosle near Vladimirets, Rivne region. The peasants, who had previously provided assistance to the partisans, warmly welcomed the guests. After eating plenty, the bandits began to rape women and girls.
Before they were killed, their chests, noses and ears were cut off.
Men were stripped of their genitals before they died. Finished off with blows of an ax on the head.
Two teenagers, the Gorshkevich brothers, who tried to call real partisans for help, had their bellies cut open, their legs and arms cut off, their wounds were poured with salt, leaving the half-dead to die in the field. In total, 173 people, including 43 children, were brutally tortured in this village. When the partisans entered the village on the second day, they saw in the houses of the villagers piles of mutilated bodies lying in pools of blood. In one of the houses on the table among the scraps and unfinished bottles of moonshine lay dead one year old baby, whose naked body was nailed to the boards of the table with a bayonet. The monsters put a half-eaten pickled cucumber into his mouth.
LIPNIKI (LIPNIKI), Kostopil County, Lutsk Voivodeship. March 26, 1943. A resident of the Lipniki colony - Yakub Varumzer without a head, the result of a massacre committed under cover of night by terrorists of the OUN-UPA (OUN-UPA). As a result of this massacre in Lipniki, 179 Polish residents were killed, as well as Poles from the surrounding area seeking shelter there. They were predominantly women, old people and children (51 - aged 1 to 14), 4 sheltered Jews and 1 Russian. 22 people were injured. Identified by name and surname 121 Polish victims - residents of Lipnik, who were known to the author. Three aggressors also lost their lives.
PODYARKOV, Bobrka County, Lviv Voivodeship. August 16, 1943. The results of torture inflicted on the mother of Kleshchinskaya, from a Polish family of four.
From the village of Volkovya one night, Bandera brought a whole family into the forest. For a long time they mocked the unfortunate people. Then, seeing that the wife of the head of the family was pregnant, they cut open her stomach, tore out the fetus from it, and instead they pushed in a live rabbit. One night, the bandits broke into the Ukrainian village of Lozovaya. Over 100 peaceful peasants were killed within 1.5 hours. A bandit with an ax in his hands burst into the hut of Nastya Dyagun and hacked to death her three sons. The smallest, four-year-old Vladik, cut off his arms and legs.
One of the two Kleshchinsky families in Podyarkovo was tortured to death by the OUN-UPA on August 16, 1943. The photo shows a family of four - a wife and two children. The victims' eyes were gouged out, they were hit on the head, their palms were burned, they tried to cut off the upper and lower limbs, as well as the hands, stab wounds were inflicted on the whole body, etc.
The girl in the center, Stasya Stefanyak, was killed because of her Polish father. Her mother Maria Boyarchuk, a Ukrainian, was also killed that night. Because of the husband .. Mixed families aroused special hatred of the Rezuns. In the village of Zalesye Koropetskoye (Ternopil region) on February 7, 1944, there was an even more terrible incident. The UPA gang attacked the village with the aim of massacring the Polish population. About 60 people, mostly women and children, were herded into a barn, where they were burned alive. One of those who died that day was from a mixed family - half Pole, half Ukrainian. Bandera set him a condition - he must kill his Polish mother, then he will be left alive. He refused and was killed along with his mother.
TARNOPOL, Tarnopol Voivodeship, 1943. One (!) of the trees of the country road, in front of which the OUN-UPA terrorists hung a banner with the inscription translated into Polish: "The road to independent Ukraine." And on each tree on both sides of the road, the executioners created the so-called “wreaths” from Polish children.
“The old were strangled, and small children up to one year old by the legs - once, hit the head on the door - and it's ready, and on the cart. We felt sorry for our men that they suffered hard during the night, but they would sleep off during the day and the next night - to another village. There were people hiding. If a man was hiding, they were mistaken for women ... "
(from the interrogation of Banderovka)
Prepared "wreaths"
But the Polish Shayer family, a mother and two children, was massacred in their house in Vladinopol in 1943.
LIPNIKI (LIPNIKI), Kostopil County, Lutsk Voivodeship. March 26, 1943. Children in the foreground - Janusz Beławski, 3 years old, Adele's son; Roman Belavsky, 5 years old, son of Cheslava, as well as Jadwiga Belavska, 18 years old and others. These listed Polish victims are the result of a massacre committed by the OUN-UPA.
LIPNIKI (LIPNIKI), Kostopil County, Lutsk Voivodeship. March 26, 1943. The corpses of Poles, victims of the massacre committed by the OUN-UPA, brought for identification and burial. Standing behind the fence is Jerzy Skulski, who saved a life thanks to the firearms he had.
POLOVETS, region, Chortkiv county, Tarnopol voivodeship, forest called Rosokhach. January 16 - 17, 1944. The place from which 26 victims were pulled out - Polish residents of the village of Polovtse - taken away by the UPA on the night of January 16-17, 1944 and tortured to death in the forest.
“..In Novoselki, Rivne region, there was one Komsomol member Motrya. We took her to Verkhovka to the old Zhabsky and let's get a living heart. Old Salivon held a watch in one hand, and a heart in the other, to check how much longer the heart would beat in his hand. And when the Russians came, the sons wanted to erect a monument to him, they say, he fought for Ukraine”
(from the interrogation of Banderovka)
Belzec, region, Rava Ruska county, Lviv voivodeship June 16, 1944. You can see the open stomach and entrails, as well as a brush hanging on the skin - the result of an attempt to chop it off. OUN-UPA case.
Belzec, region, Rava Ruska county, Lviv voivodeship June 16, 1944.
Belzec, region, Rava Ruska county, Lviv voivodeship June 16, 1944. Place of execution in the forest.
Lipniki, Kostopil district, Lutsk voivodeship. March 26, 1943. View before the funeral. Polish victims of the night massacre committed by the OUN-UPA brought to the People's House.
In Poland, the Volyn massacre is very well remembered.
This is a scan of the pages of a book. The list of ways in which the Ukrainian Nazis dealt with the civilian population:
. Driving a large and thick nail into the skull of the head.
. Ripping off the hair from the head with the skin (scalping).
. Carving on the forehead "eagle" (the eagle is the coat of arms of Poland).
. Eye gouging.
. Circumcision of the nose, ears, lips, tongue.
. Piercing children and adults with stakes through and through.
. Punching with a pointed thick wire through and through from ear to ear.
. Cutting the throat and pulling the tongue out through the hole.
. Knocking out teeth and breaking jaws.
. Tearing of the mouth from ear to ear.
. Plugging mouths with tow when transporting still living victims.
. Rolling the head back.
. Crushing of the head by placing in a vise and tightening the screw.
. Cutting and pulling narrow strips of skin from the back or face.
. Breaking bones (ribs, arms, legs).
. Cutting off women's breasts and sprinkling salt on wounds.
. Cutting off the genitals of male victims with a sickle.
. Punching the belly of a pregnant woman with a bayonet.
. Cutting the abdomen and pulling out the intestines in adults and children.
. Cutting the abdomen of a woman with a long-term pregnancy and inserting instead of the removed fetus, for example, a live cat, and stitching the abdomen.
. Cutting the abdomen and pouring boiling water inside.
. Cutting the stomach and putting stones inside it, as well as throwing it into the river.
. Cutting the belly of pregnant women and spilling broken glass inside.
. Pulling out the veins from the groin to the feet.
. Inserting a hot iron into the vagina.
. Insertion of pine cones into the vagina with the top side forward.
. Inserting a pointed stake into the vagina and pushing it up to the throat, right through.
. Cutting the women's front part of the body with a garden knife from the vagina to the neck and leaving the insides outside.
. Hanging victims by the insides.
. Inserting a glass bottle into the vagina or anus and breaking it.
. Cutting the belly and spilling feed flour inside for hungry pigs, which pulled out this feed along with the intestines and other entrails.
. Chopping off / cutting off with a knife / sawing off of hands or feet (or fingers and toes).
. Cauterization of the inside of the palm on the hot stove of a charcoal kitchen.
. Sawing the body with a saw.
. Sprinkling of bound feet with red-hot coal.
. Nailing hands to the table, and feet to the floor.
. Chopping a whole body into pieces with an ax.
. Nailing the tongue of a small child to the table with a knife, which later hung on it.
. Cutting a child into pieces with a knife.
. Nailing a small child to a table with a bayonet.
. Hanging a male child by the genitals on a doorknob.
. Knocking out the joints of the legs and arms of the child.
. Throwing a child into the flames of a burning building.
. Breaking the baby's head, taking it by the legs and hitting it against a wall or stove.
. Planting a child on a stake.
. Hanging a woman upside down on a tree and mocking her - cutting off her chest and tongue, dissecting her stomach, gouging out her eyes, and cutting off pieces of her body with knives.
. Nailing a small child to a door.
. Hanging on a tree with feet up and singeing the head from below with the fire of a fire lit under the head.
. Drowning children and adults in a well and throwing stones at the victim.
. Driving a stake into the stomach.
. Tying a man to a tree and shooting him like a target.
. Dragging the body along the street with a rope tied around the neck.
. Binding the legs and arms of a woman to two trees, and cutting her stomach from the crotch to the chest.
. Dragging on the ground mother with three children connected with each other.
. Pulling one or more victims with barbed wire, pouring cold water on the victim every few hours in order to come to his senses and feel pain.
. Buried in the ground alive up to the neck and later cut off the head with a scythe.
. Tearing the body in half with the help of horses.
. Tearing the body in half by tying the victim to two bent trees and then releasing them.
. Setting fire to a victim doused in kerosene.
. Laying around the victim with sheaves of straw and setting them on fire (Nero's torch).
. Putting a baby on a pitchfork and throwing him into the flames of a fire.
. Hanging on barbed wire.
. Ripping off the skin from the body and filling the wound with ink or boiling water.
. Nailing hands to the threshold of the dwelling.
We can all agree that the Nazis did terrible things during World War II. The Holocaust was perhaps their most famous crime. But in concentration camps there were terrible and inhuman things that most people did not know about. Camp inmates were used as test subjects in a variety of experiments that were very painful and usually resulted in death.
blood clotting experiments
Dr. Sigmund Rascher performed blood clotting experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp. He created a drug, Polygal, which included beets and apple pectin. He believed that these pills could help stop bleeding from battle wounds or during surgical operations.
Each subject was given a tablet of the drug and shot in the neck or chest to test its effectiveness. The limbs were then amputated without anesthesia. Dr. Rascher created a company to produce these pills, which also employed prisoners.
Experiments with sulfa drugs 
In the Ravensbrück concentration camp, the effectiveness of sulfonamides (or sulfanilamide preparations) was tested on prisoners. Subjects were given incisions on the outside of their calves. The doctors then rubbed the mixture of bacteria into the open wounds and stitched them up. To simulate combat situations, glass fragments were also brought into the wounds.
However, this method turned out to be too mild compared to the conditions at the fronts. To simulate gunshot wounds, blood vessels were tied off on both sides to stop blood circulation. Then the prisoners were given sulfa drugs. Despite the advances made in the scientific and pharmaceutical fields through these experiments, the prisoners experienced terrible pain that led to severe injury or even death.
Freezing and Hypothermia Experiments 
The German armies were ill-prepared for the cold that they faced on the Eastern Front and from which thousands of soldiers died. As a result, Dr. Sigmund Rascher conducted experiments in Birkenau, Auschwitz and Dachau to find out two things: the time required for the body temperature to drop and death, and methods for reviving frozen people.
Naked prisoners were either placed in a barrel of ice water, or driven out into the street in sub-zero temperatures. Most of the victims died. Those who only fainted were subjected to painful resuscitation procedures. Subjects were placed under lamps to revive them. sunlight, which burned their skin, forced them to copulate with women, injected boiling water inside or placed in baths with warm water(which turned out to be the most efficient method).
Experiments with firebombs 
For three months in 1943 and 1944, Buchenwald prisoners were tested for the effectiveness of pharmaceutical preparations against phosphorus burns caused by incendiary bombs. The test subjects were specially burned with a phosphorus composition from these bombs, which was a very painful procedure. Prisoners were seriously injured during these experiments.
sea water experiments 
Experiments were conducted on Dachau prisoners to find ways to turn sea water into drinking water. The subjects were divided into four groups, whose members went without water, drank sea water, drank sea water treated according to the Burke method, and drank sea water without salt.
Subjects were given food and drink assigned to their group. Prisoners who received some form of sea water eventually suffered severe diarrhea, convulsions, hallucinations, went insane, and eventually died.
In addition, the subjects were subjected to needle biopsy of the liver or lumbar punctures to collect data. These procedures were painful and in most cases ended in death.
Experiments with poisons 
In Buchenwald, experiments were carried out on the effects of poisons on people. In 1943, poisons were secretly administered to prisoners.
Some died themselves from poisoned food. Others were killed for the sake of an autopsy. A year later, poisoned bullets were fired at the prisoners to speed up data collection. These test subjects experienced terrible torment.
Experiments with sterilization 
As part of the extermination of all non-Aryans, Nazi doctors conducted mass sterilization experiments on prisoners from various concentration camps in search of the least laborious and cheapest method of sterilization.
In one series of experiments, a chemical irritant was injected into the reproductive organs of women to block the fallopian tubes. Some women have died after this procedure. Other women were killed for autopsies.
In a number of other experiments, prisoners were subjected to intense X-ray radiation, which led to severe burns on the abdomen, groin and buttocks. They were also left with incurable ulcers. Some test subjects died.
Bone, muscle and nerve regeneration and bone grafting experiments 
For about a year, experiments were carried out on the prisoners of Ravensbrück to regenerate bones, muscles and nerves. Nerve surgeries included the removal of segments of nerves from the lower limbs.
Bone experiments included breaking and repositioning bones in several places on the lower limbs. Fractures were not allowed to heal properly as doctors needed to study the healing process and also test different healing methods.
Doctors also removed numerous fragments of the tibia from the test subjects to study bone regeneration. Bone grafts included transplanting fragments of the left tibia to the right and vice versa. These experiments caused unbearable pain and severe injuries to the prisoners.
Experiments with typhus 
From the end of 1941 until the beginning of 1945, doctors conducted experiments on the prisoners of Buchenwald and Natzweiler in the interests of the German armed forces. They were testing vaccines for typhus and other diseases.
Approximately 75% of test subjects were injected with trial typhoid or other vaccines. chemical substances. They were injected with a virus. As a result, more than 90% of them died.
The remaining 25% of the test subjects were injected with the virus without any prior protection. Most of them did not survive. Physicians also conducted experiments related to yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid, and other diseases. Hundreds of prisoners died, and more prisoners suffered unbearable pain as a result.
Twin experiments and genetic experiments 
The purpose of the Holocaust was the elimination of all people of non-Aryan origin. Jews, blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals and other people who did not meet certain requirements were to be exterminated so that only the "superior" Aryan race remained. Genetic experiments were carried out to provide the Nazi Party with scientific proof of the superiority of the Aryans.
Dr. Josef Mengele (also known as the "Angel of Death") had a strong interest in the twins. He separated them from the rest of the prisoners when they entered Auschwitz. The twins had to donate blood every day. The real purpose of this procedure is unknown.
The experiments with twins were extensive. They were to be carefully examined and every centimeter of their body measured. After that, comparisons were made to determine hereditary traits. Sometimes doctors performed mass blood transfusions from one twin to the other.
Since people of Aryan origin mostly had blue eyes, experiments were carried out to create them with chemical drops or injections into the iris of the eye. These procedures were very painful and led to infections and even blindness.
Injections and lumbar punctures were done without anesthesia. One twin deliberately contracted the disease, and the other did not. If one twin died, the other twin was killed and studied for comparison.
Amputations and removals of organs were also performed without anesthesia. Most of the twins who ended up in the concentration camp died in one way or another, and their autopsies were the last experiments.
Experiments with high altitudes 
From March to August 1942, the prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp were used as experimental subjects in experiments to test human endurance at high altitudes. The results of these experiments were to help the German air force.
The test subjects were placed in a low pressure chamber, which created atmospheric conditions at altitudes up to 21,000 meters. Most of the test subjects died, and the survivors suffered from various injuries from being at high altitudes.
Experiments with malaria 
Over the course of more than three years, more than 1,000 Dachau prisoners were used in a series of experiments related to the search for a cure for malaria. Healthy prisoners were infected by mosquitoes or extracts from these mosquitoes.
Prisoners who contracted malaria were then treated with various drugs to test their effectiveness. Many prisoners died. The surviving prisoners suffered greatly and were mostly disabled for the rest of their lives.
Below are excerpts from various books (I don’t remember the names, alas)
Our past neighbors - grandparents - got married in the war. She was a nurse, she slept, and he raped her sleeping. In the process, I realized that she was a virgin, was afraid of arrest and offered to marry: “anyway, no one will marry you anymore.” She was scared and agreed. So he later reminded her all his life: “Now, if I hadn’t taken pity on you, no one would have taken you.”
Then there was Allenstein and there was more fire and more death. Near the post office, he (Kopelev) met a woman with a bandaged head, who tightly held the hand of a young girl with blond pigtails, she was crying, the child's legs were stained with blood ... "The soldiers kicked us out of the house," she told the Russian officer, " they beat and raped us, my daughter was only 13, she was raped by two, and everyone else raped me" She asked him to help her find her little son. Another woman asked him to shoot her.
3. "I remember what happened the first three days after the capture of Stettin, all the roads were covered with feathers from featherbeds, posters were placed on the approaches to the city - "Blood for blood!", And the corpses of civilians here and there did not cause anyone surprise As if the Mongol horde had passed. And when it became clear to the command that the time had come to urgently curb the vengeful impulse of the advanced units, then the order of Marshal Zhukov appeared - "For violence and looting - to be court-martialed and shot" ... Then Aleksandrov's article "Comrade Ehrenburg simplifies", and the commanders, together with political workers and tribunals, were able to restore discipline in the army units."
4. “They poked here,” the beautiful German woman explained, lifting up her skirt, “all night, and there were so many of them. I was a girl,” she sighed and cried. “They ruined my youth. they climbed on me, they all poked at me. There were at least twenty of them, yes, yes, - and she burst into tears.
“They raped my daughter in my presence,” the poor mother put in, “they can still come and rape my girl again.” From this again everyone was horrified, and bitter sobbing swept from corner to corner of the basement where the owners had brought me. here, - the girl suddenly rushed to me, - you will sleep with me. You can do whatever you want with me, but you are the only one!" writes Gelfand in his diary.
- “There is no way to say that the Major is raping me,” she writes. “Why am I doing this? For bacon, sugar, candles, canned meat? major, and the less he wants from me as a man, the more I like him as a person."
Many of her neighbors made similar deals with the winners of defeated Berlin.
- “Suddenly, tanks appeared on our street, bodies of Russian and German soldiers lay everywhere,” she recalls. “I remember the terrifying twang of falling Russian bombs. We called them Stalinorgels (“Stalin’s organs”).”
One day, between bombings, Ingeborg climbed out of the basement and ran upstairs for a rope, which she adapted for a lamp wick.
“Suddenly, I saw two Russians pointing guns at me,” she says. “One of them forced me to undress and raped me. Then they switched places and another raped me. I thought I was going to die, that they would kill me.”
Then Ingeborg did not tell about what happened to her. She kept quiet about it for decades because it would be too hard to talk about it. "My mother used to brag about the fact that her daughter had not been touched," she recalls.
I want to note that it's scary, but it was. And women have always been war trophies, they have always paid for the war, wherever it takes place - and the winners are not judged. There are bastards in any country, on any side of the barricades. There are, were and will be. Like good people, I hope.
This name has become a symbol of the brutal attitude of the Nazis towards captured children.
During the three years of the existence of the camp (1941-1944) in Salaspils, according to various sources, about a hundred thousand people died, seven thousand of them were children.
The place from which they did not return
This camp was built by captured Jews in 1941 on the territory of the former Latvian training ground, 18 kilometers from Riga, near the village of the same name. According to the documents, Salaspils (German: Kurtenhof) was originally called an “educational labor camp”, and not a concentration camp.
An impressive area, fenced with barbed wire, was built up with hastily built wooden barracks. Each was designed for 200-300 people, but often in one room there were from 500 to 1000 people.
Initially, Jews deported from Germany to Latvia were doomed to death in the camp, but since 1942, "objectionable" from the most different countries: France, Germany, Austria, Soviet Union.
The Salaspils camp also gained notoriety because it was here that the Nazis took blood from innocent children for the needs of the army and mocked young prisoners in every possible way.
Full donors for the Reich
New prisoners were brought in regularly. They were forced to strip naked and sent to the so-called bathhouse. It was necessary to walk half a kilometer through the mud, and then wash in icy water. After that, the arrivals were placed in barracks, all things were taken away.
There were no names, surnames, titles - only serial numbers. Many died almost immediately, while those who managed to survive after several days of imprisonment and torture were “sorted out”.
The children were separated from their parents. If the mothers did not give, the guards took the babies by force. There were terrible screams and screams. Many women went crazy; some of them were placed in the hospital, and some were shot on the spot.
Infants and children under the age of six were sent to a special barrack, where they died of starvation and disease. The Nazis experimented on older prisoners: they injected poisons, performed operations without anesthesia, took blood from children, which was transferred to hospitals for wounded soldiers of the German army. Many children became "full donors" - they took blood from them until they died.
Considering that the prisoners were practically not fed: a piece of bread and a gruel from vegetable waste, the number of child deaths was in the hundreds a day. The corpses, like garbage, were taken out in huge baskets and burned in crematorium ovens or dumped into disposal pits.
Covering up traces
In August 1944, before the arrival of the Soviet troops, in an attempt to destroy the traces of atrocities, the Nazis burned down many barracks. The surviving prisoners were taken to the Stutthof concentration camp, and German prisoners of war were kept on the territory of Salaspils until October 1946.
After the liberation of Riga from the Nazis, a commission to investigate Nazi atrocities found 652 children's corpses in the camp. Mass graves and human remains were also found: ribs, hip bones, teeth.
One of the most eerie photographs, clearly illustrating the events of that time, is the “Salaspils Madonna”, the corpse of a woman who hugs a dead baby. It was found that they were buried alive.
The truth pricks the eyes
Only in 1967, the Salaspils memorial complex was erected on the site of the camp, which still exists today. Many famous Russian and Latvian sculptors and architects worked on the ensemble, including Ernst Unknown. The road to Salaspils begins with a massive concrete slab, the inscription on which reads: "The earth groans behind these walls."
Further, on a small field, figures-symbols with "speaking" names rise: "Unbroken", "Humiliated", "Oath", "Mother". On either side of the road are barracks with iron bars where people bring flowers, children's toys and sweets, and on the black marble wall, serifs measure the days spent by the innocent in the "death camp".
To date, some Latvian historians blasphemously call the Salaspils camp "educational and labor" and "socially useful", refusing to recognize the atrocities that were committed near Riga during the Second World War.
In 2015, an exhibition dedicated to the victims of Salaspils was banned in Latvia. Officials considered that such an event would harm the image of the country. As a result, the exposition “Stolen childhood. Victims of the Holocaust through the eyes of young Nazi prisoners Salaspils concentration camp was held at the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris.
In 2017, there was also a scandal at the press conference “Salaspils camp, history and memory”. One of the speakers tried to present his original point of view on historical events, but received a strong rebuff from the participants. “It hurts to hear how you are trying to forget about the past today. We cannot allow such terrible events to happen again. God forbid you experience something like this,” one of the women who managed to survive in Salaspils addressed the speaker.
During the occupation of the territory of the SRSR, the Nazis constantly resorted to various kinds of torture. All torture was allowed at the state level. The law also constantly increased repression against representatives of a non-Aryan nation - torture had an ideological basis.
Prisoners of war and partisans, as well as women, were subjected to the most cruel torture. An example of the inhuman torture of women by the Nazis is the actions that the Germans used against the captured underground worker Anela Chulitskaya.
The Nazis locked this girl every morning in a cell, where she was subjected to monstrous beatings. The rest of the prisoners heard her screams, which tore apart the soul. Anel was already being taken out when she lost consciousness and thrown like garbage into a common cell. The rest of the captive women tried to alleviate her pain with compresses. Anel told the prisoners that she was hung from the ceiling, pieces of skin and muscles were cut out, beaten, raped, bones were broken and water was injected under the skin.
In the end, Anel Chulitskaya was killed, last time her body was seen mutilated almost beyond recognition, her hands were cut off. Her body hung on one of the walls of the corridor for a long time, as a reminder and a warning.
The Germans even resorted to torture for singing in their cells. So Tamara Rusova was beaten because she sang songs in Russian.
Quite often, not only the Gestapo and the military resorted to torture. Captured women were also tortured by German women. There is information that refers to Tanya and Olga Karpinsky, who were mutilated beyond recognition by a certain Frau Boss.
Fascist torture was varied, and each of them was more inhumane than the other. Often women were not allowed to sleep for several days, even weeks. They were deprived of water, the women suffered from dehydration, and the Germans forced them to drink very salty water.
Women were very often underground, and the struggle against such actions was severely punished by the Nazis. They always tried to suppress the underground as quickly as possible, and for this they resorted to such cruel measures. Also, women worked in the rear of the Germans, obtained various information.
Basically, torture was carried out by Gestapo soldiers (Third Reich police), as well as SS soldiers (elite fighters personally subordinate to Adolf Hitler). In addition, the so-called "policemen" resorted to torture - collaborators who controlled order in the settlements.
Women suffered more than men, as they succumbed to constant sexual harassment and numerous rapes. Often the rapes were gang rapes. After such bullying, girls were often killed so as not to leave traces. In addition, they were gassed and forced to bury the corpses.
As a conclusion, we can say that fascist torture did not only concern prisoners of war and men in general. The most cruel fascists were precisely to women. Many soldiers of Nazi Germany often raped the female population of the occupied territories. The soldiers were looking for a way to "have fun". Besides, no one could stop the Nazis from doing it.
