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Execution of Nazi commandant of Ravensbrück concentration camp - Fritz Suhren

Execution of Fritz Suhren Brutal Nazi Commandant of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp World War 2. The 30th of April 1945, Nazi Germany. The Soviet forces liberate Ravensbrück – one of the worst Nazi concentration camps which would epitomize the true bestiality and horrors of the Nazi regime and its death camps. Upon entering the camp, the soldiers from the 2nd Belorussian Front encounter thousands of emaciated and sickly women still imprisoned in the camp, who endured forced labor, malnutrition, medical experiments, and extreme abuse. Following the liberation, the Soviet soldiers provide medical aid and care to the surviving inmates and attempt to identify the remaining SS guards and personnel responsible for the atrocities committed at the camp. In the years that follow, many of the former Ravensbrück camp staff will face trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity that they committed during the Second World War. One of them is Fritz Suhren. Fritz Suhren was born on the 10th of June 1908 in Varel, then part of German Empire. On 1 October 1928 he joined the SA and 2 months later Suhren became a member of the Nazi Party. In October 1931 he joined the SS. After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party rapidly consolidated its control and implemented its ideology. Hitler and the Nazis worked to dismantle democratic institutions, suspended civil liberties, curtailed freedom of the press, and quickly implemented a series of discriminatory policies, primarily targeting Jews. The Nazis ruthlessly suppressed any form of dissent or opposition. Political opponents, including communists, socialists, and members of other parties, were arrested, imprisoned, or sent to concentration camps. In March 1939, one year after the German Annexation of Austria, Fritz Suhren was sent to Graz to work as a SS section staff leader. Whilst there, Suhren became an alcoholic and had to commit not to drink any alcoholic drinks for 2 years. World War 2 started on the 1st of September 1939 and 2 years later in 1941 Suhren was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp to work as a deputy commandant. The camp was located north of Berlin and held Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma and Sinti people and, later, Soviet civilians. One of the camp’s most prominent prisoners was Yakov Dzhugashvili, Joseph Stalin's son, who died at Sachsenhausen in 1943 after his father refused to make a deal to secure his release. On the 22nd of June, 1941, Nazi Germany, under the codename Operation Barbarossa, invaded the Soviet Union, its ally in the war against Poland. Three army groups counting more than 3 million German soldiers attacked the Soviet Union across a broad front stretching from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south. The soldiers were supported by additional 650,000 troops from Germany’s allies. In the first six weeks after the German attack the Soviet Union saw catastrophic military losses and the German armies eventually captured some 5,7 million Soviet Red Army troops during the Second World War. From the very beginning, German policy on the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war was determined by Nazi ideology. German political and military leaders regarded Soviet prisoners of war not only as racially less valuable but as potential enemies, obstacles in the German conquest of "living space." The Nazi regime claimed that it was under no obligation for the humane care of prisoners of war from the Red Army because the Soviet Union had not ratified the 1929 Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, nor had it specifically declared its commitment to the 1907 Hague Convention on the Rules of War. Many Soviet prisoners of war died due to the appalling treatment, malnutrition, diseases, and executions. Some 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war, or about 57 percent of those taken prisoner, were dead by the end of the war. Second only to the Jews, Soviet prisoners of war were the largest group of victims of Nazi racial policy. Join World History channel and get access to benefits:    / @worldhistoryvideos   Disclaimer: All opinions and comments below are from members of the public and do not reflect the views of World History channel. We do not accept promoting violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on attributes such as: race, nationality, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation. World History has right to review the comments and delete them if they are deemed inappropriate. ► CLICK the SUBSCRIBE button for more interesting clips:    / @worldhistoryvideos   #worldhistory #worldwar2videos #ww2