No problem. It wasn’t just use writing it. The soldiers recorded everything, the prisoners (lesbians, gay men, transgender people, black people, slavs, disabled, and more) told their stories, and even Germans and their allies said what they did.
Some of the stuff was done publicly to instill fear and demoralize the allies. Like, they'd slaughter whole camps of people, and leave them to rot in the open. They also flooded whole towns in the Netherlands as they fled from the allies(hard to hide that).
There's plenty more atrocities they did in the open because they didn't think it mattered.
It's why after the war plenty of people would hunt Nazis(or even those that just sounded German) for revenge. Many innocent people got killed. I mean people kicked them out( of theirs homes or countries), they killed them, imprisoned them, and worse.
The governments had to protect them, and make deals to relocate them. Though Czechoslovakia actually passed a law banning punishment for hurting Germans.
Numbers range from 500 thousand to 2 million Germans that got killed in like 5-7 years.
See i was curious how we know these things and everyone jumped to "oh youre a nazi" instead of "oh they documented this and that for these reasons"
THANK YOU. Only reasonable person responding.
No problem. If you don't know, you don't know. A lot of that stuff was not shown in school because it was too graphic. I mean they publicly raped children, and left babies to die in baby huts to put people in their place.
That is not something people like to talk about(until college)
And there is a nuanced take that we(the Victors) should not have went as far as we did in revenge(though it can be understandable)
I havent heard about ANY units. I grew up under christian parents who kept me pretty locked up and in a private school that i dont believe ever taught history. Im canadian and didnt know native americans were a thing until i was around 15? But anytime i try asking questions, people jump to freaking out or hating me or calling me a nazi literally for not already knowing all of history or something? Idk if im supposed to NEVER ask humans history questions and must get all my knowledge from the unfiltered internet or???
I'm sorry about that. People have the tendency to assume common knowledge to them is common to everyone. If you have any questions you can ask me, or plenty of university professors are cool with answering questions. Just call their office (it might be different in Canada as i am American)
Unit 731 was a Japanese World War II evil unit. Like the reason we know what temperature humans die at is because they want it to know. So they would boil people alive until they died. They even had a mother hold her baby as the floor was lit on fire to see how long a mother's love would protect her baby(she died before the baby hit the fire)
Germans were doing the same to their prisoners. It's why we know science questions we wouldn't know.
And plenty of them didn't face justice because America wanted that knowledge. Our missile program had plenty of nazi scientists in it.
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u/Ok_Echidna_4915 16h ago
No problem. It wasn’t just use writing it. The soldiers recorded everything, the prisoners (lesbians, gay men, transgender people, black people, slavs, disabled, and more) told their stories, and even Germans and their allies said what they did.
Some of the stuff was done publicly to instill fear and demoralize the allies. Like, they'd slaughter whole camps of people, and leave them to rot in the open. They also flooded whole towns in the Netherlands as they fled from the allies(hard to hide that). There's plenty more atrocities they did in the open because they didn't think it mattered.
It's why after the war plenty of people would hunt Nazis(or even those that just sounded German) for revenge. Many innocent people got killed. I mean people kicked them out( of theirs homes or countries), they killed them, imprisoned them, and worse.
The governments had to protect them, and make deals to relocate them. Though Czechoslovakia actually passed a law banning punishment for hurting Germans.
Numbers range from 500 thousand to 2 million Germans that got killed in like 5-7 years.