The most incredible story of Auschwitz: the cruel Nazi guard Franz Wunsch fell in love with a Jewess скачать в хорошем качестве

The most incredible story of Auschwitz: the cruel Nazi guard Franz Wunsch fell in love with a Jewess

Franz Wunsch was born on March 21, 1922, in Drasenhofen, Austria. He felt a deep and virulent hatred of Jews and in 1940, two years after Austria's annexation to the German Reich, he enlisted in the SS. World War II began on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The last Polish operational unit surrendered on October 6. The German occupation of the country was exceptionally brutal. The Nazis considered Poles racially inferior and launched a campaign of terror aimed at destroying the nation and culture of this territory, reducing Poles to a leaderless population of peasants and workers in the service of their German masters. In May 1940, about 60 km west of Krakow, the Germans established the Auschwitz concentration camp. The direct reason for the camp's establishment was the fact that mass arrests of Poles were increasing beyond the capacity of existing "local" prisons. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Franz Wunsch was sent to fight on the Eastern Front. Due to the harsh weather conditions and fierce resistance, fighting on the front lines was an incredibly difficult and brutal experience for German soldiers. While there, Wunsch suffered a knee injury and was later sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he worked as a guard. Birkenau, the Jewish extermination center, was the largest of the more than 40 camps and subcamps that made up the Auschwitz complex. It was divided into ten sections separated by electrified barbed wire fences and patrolled by SS guards, including—after 1942—SS dog handlers. During its three-year lifespan, it served a variety of functions. When construction began in October 1941, it was intended to be a camp for 125,000 prisoners of war. It opened as a branch of Auschwitz in March 1942 and simultaneously served as a center for the extermination of Jews. In its final phase, beginning in 1944, it also became a place where prisoners were concentrated before being transferred to work in German industry deep within the Third Reich. At Auschwitz, the selection and murder process was carefully planned and organized. When a train stopped at the platform, those arriving were lined up in two columns: men and boys in one, women and girls in the other. SS doctors, such as Josef Mengele, carried out the selection. The only criterion was the prisoners' appearance, whose fate—labor or death—was determined at will. SS personnel—when overseeing the loading of prisoners to be transported in railcars to the gas chambers—often behaved inhumanely, cruelly torturing arriving inmates, beating women, men, and children with a stick or cane as they forced them into the railcars. Disclaimer: All opinions and comments are those of members of the public and do not reflect the views of World History Channel ES. We do not tolerate the promotion of hatred and violence against individuals or groups based on characteristics such as race, nationality, religion, sex, gender, or sexual orientation. World History reserves the right to review comments and delete them if deemed inappropriate. #history #ww2