20.04.2005 A Nation Extermination

It was in the Middle Ages that the Church pinned the blame for the crucifixion of Jesus on the Jews though the execution was administered by the Romans. This nation has been persecuted since then.
The Nazi ideology stated in Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” of the superiority of the pure “Arian” race over the others started to act violently long before the II World War, in 1933 right after Hitler taking power. The Jews were withdrawn from civil service, from participating in cultural life, they were banned to marry people of German origin. Jewish children were prohibited to attend German schools.
The night of November, 9-10, 1938 is known in the world history as a “Pogroms-Nacht”. A storm of violence swept through the country: numerous acts of vandalism, pogroms, lootings, slaughters, thousands of Jews being put into concentration camps.
After the war began, the assembly line of human destruction started to work continuously.
The existence of ghettos simplified the work of the SS. They were driven from there to umschlagplatzen – selecting points, where it was decided who were to die & who could be still used for the works. Many were allured there by the promises to hand a loaf of bread.
Special punitive troops (einsatzgruppen) first shot bulks of people, more time being spent on digging pits, than on the execution, which was ran quite methodically (one account cites the pace of 100 people being shot within 40 minutes).
The Germans worked several hours running, pausing only to reload the guns. Though they were completely content they do their duty to Hitler & Motherland, they were getting short of psychological well-being. Then gas cameras were introduced exploiting insecticide “cyclone B”, designed to disinfect rooms & kill lice.
People were told they were to be transported to another place, but before they had to be disinfected & have a shower. Women undressed their babies trying not to wake them, then undressed themselves & saw the men entering the opposite door. They must have understood everything then. The heavy door slammed…
Though it was strictly prohibited to photograph “the solution of the Jewish problem”, about 200 shots remained showing what happened in the death camps. The Nazis found mirth in filming horror, pain, fright of their victims & then representing it all to their relatives & friends.
The taunts of fascism cannot be acquitted. How can we justify a baby being taken from his mother & tore in half before her eyes? How can we justify the Jews being compelled to clean the gas cameras, cut women’s hair, tear out golden teeth from the mouths of dead people?
How can we justify taunting experiments on children who were injected tuberculosis bacteria or whose lymphatic glands were cut out?
We can’t do it neither should we forget of the thousands perished through genocide. One of the simple reasons is that tomorrow somebody else may appear in Hitler’s place. Who will be in that of the Jews?
Nadya Shalgueva
Based on “Tell Thy Kin Thereof”.
P.S. We pay gratitude to the Culture department of the Swedish Embassy for providing the project with a number of copies of this book.