What torture devices were used in Nazi concentration camps?

There is a widely held, but mistaken view that the Nazis made extensive use of fiendishly ingenious torture devices. In concentration camps the guards most commonly beat inmates - sometimes with their fists and sometimes with various implements ranging from whips to cudgels and long, heavy crowbars Sometimes the guards pushed prisoners to the ground and kicked them black and blue with their heavy jackboots (which were a bit like heavy 'goth' boots), smashed their teeth, and so on In a small number of cases guards cut off women's breasts Answer The German doctors did cruel medical experiments that they hadn't tested on anyone else Answer Tied them to a post and tore the flesh off their backs with a stick wrapped with barbed wire Answer They shot them, put them in giant ovens, did horrible medical experiments on them, put them in gas chambers, starved them, whipped them, and hung them Answer Early on, the SS-Einsatzgruppen (death squads) did murder thousands of Jews, Slavs and general non-Germans through gunfire, burning, and hanging, but as mentioned above, this was deemed too inefficient. The Wannsee conference, so far as the minutes go, helped solidify the new way of killing the non-German dissidents -- the infamous gas chambers and crematoria However, actual torture differed from camp to camp.

Mengele, the "Angel of Death", did indeed commit vile experiments on select inmates -- with a particular fixation on identical twins, dwarfs, and genetically inferior persons. These experiments included: -Hurting a twin and gauging the other twins' reaction -Removing body parts to test the survival time of the patient -Testing new, unfounded surgery techniques (supposedly without anasthesia -- debated by some historians) -Using saltwater and electricity to gauge the pain response of the human body These means did became the most infamous torture techniques in the Nazi regime However, general torture of the inmates is pretty much easy to imagine -- whipping; random killing or maiming; rape; defamation and degradation of the person's rights; many torture techniques that the Nazi prison guards (and even some prison inmates who themselves practised torture) can be found in modern day camps Answer Some of the SS men did a little reading on the Inquisition ... Bullies are seldom original. However, they didn't have time for elaborate 'torture devices At Auschwitz they sometimes unleashed hungry dogs on the prisoners.

The senior women's warder enjoyed whipping inmates across the face(!) and this often caused blindness. A blind inmate was no use for work, and so was sent off to the gas chambers. (This particular warder was later caught, tried, convicted and hanged in 1948) One of the more common tortures used in some Nazi camps involved tying an inmate's wrists securely behind the back and them suspending him (or her) for anything from 30 minutes to a few hours.

The pain and the effect on the muscles and joints can easily be imagined. It was horrific Some victims were dropped, face down, on to collections of fixed, fairly sharp objects (but not sharp enough to kill them). If they fainted they were revived and the process was repeated An interesting early account of life in a concentration camp is: Eugen Kogon The Theory and Practice of Hell (Various publishers).

Eugen Kogon was a prisoner at Buchenwald from 1939 till the camp was liberated in 1945. He was immensely resilient and wrote most of the book in 1945-46. Part of it was used in evidence by the prosecution at Nuremberg As Jean Amery (anagram and pen-name of Hans Mayer) observed, there was a fundamental sense in which torture a sadistic and fundamental attack on the whole person lay at the very heart of Nazism, with its bottomless contempt for civilization, morality and human life.

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