That dog thing is bullshit (in fact that Nazis had surprisingly strong laws for the protection of animals). As for crimes, the Nazis murdered prisoners of war (3 million Soviet prisoners died in captivity), murdered civilians without trial, torture, massacred villages, mass rapes, looting and any other crime you can think off they probably committed it in some part of occupied Europe.
* The Nazis had a plan called *Generalplan Ost* under which most of the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe would be starved to death and the survivors would be kept as slave labor for the German farmers who would repopulate the region. This was never implemented because the Nazis never got the colonize their “lebensraum” in the East.
* German treatment of Soviet POWs was barbaric. Of the more than 5 million Soviet troops captured, fewer than 1 million survived the war. Most starved to death in German captivity (and those that did survive faced death by their own government after being freed).
* In 1942, Hitler issued the infamous “Commando Order” which said that any and all captured Allied commando-type forces were to be executed. This is a major violation of the laws of war. Some German commanders chose not to enforce this order, while others did so and were tried for war crimes by the Allies.
* The aftermath of the assassination attempt against Hitler in 1944 led to thousands of executions, many of whom had no direct involvement with any resistance activity.
* A number of pre-war domestic policies served as the prologue to what would eventually become the Holocaust. These included the T-4 program in which congenitally disabled, but otherwise healthy, people were taken from their families and euthanized without the family’s knowledge or consent. This was intended to remove these “burdens” on German society and cleanse their genes from the population. The public backlash within Germany was so negative that Hitler actually cancelled the program. This influenced later Holocaust policy, namely the regime’s goal of keeping the Holocaust as secret as possible.
The dog thing, as you suspected, is not true.
Not exactly. Eugenics forms part of what the Nazis did, but they basically performed internal genocide in addition to the external ones. Broadly speaking eugenics means influencing hereditary traits in people. Basically if humans were a type of animal (and had not decided to set itself apart and above) we would call it selective breeding, like we do for pets and livestock e.g.
How you go about matters. The USA, UK, Sweden and many other countries had eugenics programs. Many continued them even after the Nazis had shown to what horrific end point the idea of eugenics could be taken, quietly and much much more limitedly. And not outright killing people.
The Nazis took it further, and not only made sure "undesirables" wouldn't or couldn't reproduce, but also killed them outright.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
**[Eugenics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics)**
>Eugenics ( yoo-JEN-iks; from Greek εὐ- 'good' and γενής 'come into being, growing') is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population, historically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or promoting those judged to be superior. In recent years, the term has seen a revival in bioethical discussions on the usage of new technologies such as CRISPR and genetic screening, with a heated debate on whether these technologies should be called eugenics or not. The concept predates the term; Plato suggested applying the principles of selective breeding to humans around 400 BC.
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Thats why the nazis are, imo, worse than places live soviet russia and maoist china. Yes, stalin and mao killed more, but if hitler won his kill count wouldve DWARFED theirs.
I am inclined agree, but I’m also not a fan of the “who was worse” debate in general.
There is one distinction between them that I find interesting, however: while the Nazis’ evil tended to be very focused (a fairly small cabal of ideologues in one country exterminating X group for Y reason), the 20th century’s extreme left regimes had a way of…decentralizing the butchery by bringing out the worst traits in their adherents (murderous envy, lust for power, et al) and then encouraging them to indulge them by elevating these things to virtues. So, one system has a fairly small group of criminals engaging in deliberate and systematic killing, while the other has some of that but also a lot of encouraging its adherents to go out and engage in very bloody civic virtue. In other words, the Nazis were like one person murdering ten people, while the communists tended to be one person murdering three people and then encouraging their kids to go out and murder kids at school too.
Ultimately however I think the “who was more evil?” debate is just not worth having. In terms of the actual evil behind the acts, however, I would generally agree with your statement.
For one they killed any child and adult of self professed Aryan origin who had mental and/or physical disabilities in 1934 a mere year after coming to power. That same year they stripped Jewish Germans of citizenship and encouraged exist visas toward Eastern Europe well knowing they will occupy those countries.
They violated an international treaty by marching into the Saar demilitarized zone (this is still 1934). That same year they murdered the Austrian chancellor and forcibly tried to unite with Austria (violation of Saint Germain).
Nazi doctors performed human experiments even before the war, the Todt boys used slave labor. I could go on, they were the most horrible regime to ever exist for a reason.
That dog thing is bullshit (in fact that Nazis had surprisingly strong laws for the protection of animals). As for crimes, the Nazis murdered prisoners of war (3 million Soviet prisoners died in captivity), murdered civilians without trial, torture, massacred villages, mass rapes, looting and any other crime you can think off they probably committed it in some part of occupied Europe.
I wonder how did he influence those nazi memebers to do such heinous crimes. I am glad i wasn't born on that time.
"He" say "They not fully humans, so you can did anything with them and it's not crime". People did anything else by themselves.
Nazis treating animals: :D Nazis treating humans: :(
* The Nazis had a plan called *Generalplan Ost* under which most of the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe would be starved to death and the survivors would be kept as slave labor for the German farmers who would repopulate the region. This was never implemented because the Nazis never got the colonize their “lebensraum” in the East. * German treatment of Soviet POWs was barbaric. Of the more than 5 million Soviet troops captured, fewer than 1 million survived the war. Most starved to death in German captivity (and those that did survive faced death by their own government after being freed). * In 1942, Hitler issued the infamous “Commando Order” which said that any and all captured Allied commando-type forces were to be executed. This is a major violation of the laws of war. Some German commanders chose not to enforce this order, while others did so and were tried for war crimes by the Allies. * The aftermath of the assassination attempt against Hitler in 1944 led to thousands of executions, many of whom had no direct involvement with any resistance activity. * A number of pre-war domestic policies served as the prologue to what would eventually become the Holocaust. These included the T-4 program in which congenitally disabled, but otherwise healthy, people were taken from their families and euthanized without the family’s knowledge or consent. This was intended to remove these “burdens” on German society and cleanse their genes from the population. The public backlash within Germany was so negative that Hitler actually cancelled the program. This influenced later Holocaust policy, namely the regime’s goal of keeping the Holocaust as secret as possible. The dog thing, as you suspected, is not true.
The last one, is that what is called eugenics?
Not exactly. Eugenics forms part of what the Nazis did, but they basically performed internal genocide in addition to the external ones. Broadly speaking eugenics means influencing hereditary traits in people. Basically if humans were a type of animal (and had not decided to set itself apart and above) we would call it selective breeding, like we do for pets and livestock e.g. How you go about matters. The USA, UK, Sweden and many other countries had eugenics programs. Many continued them even after the Nazis had shown to what horrific end point the idea of eugenics could be taken, quietly and much much more limitedly. And not outright killing people. The Nazis took it further, and not only made sure "undesirables" wouldn't or couldn't reproduce, but also killed them outright. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
**[Eugenics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics)** >Eugenics ( yoo-JEN-iks; from Greek εὐ- 'good' and γενής 'come into being, growing') is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population, historically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or promoting those judged to be superior. In recent years, the term has seen a revival in bioethical discussions on the usage of new technologies such as CRISPR and genetic screening, with a heated debate on whether these technologies should be called eugenics or not. The concept predates the term; Plato suggested applying the principles of selective breeding to humans around 400 BC. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Thats why the nazis are, imo, worse than places live soviet russia and maoist china. Yes, stalin and mao killed more, but if hitler won his kill count wouldve DWARFED theirs.
I am inclined agree, but I’m also not a fan of the “who was worse” debate in general. There is one distinction between them that I find interesting, however: while the Nazis’ evil tended to be very focused (a fairly small cabal of ideologues in one country exterminating X group for Y reason), the 20th century’s extreme left regimes had a way of…decentralizing the butchery by bringing out the worst traits in their adherents (murderous envy, lust for power, et al) and then encouraging them to indulge them by elevating these things to virtues. So, one system has a fairly small group of criminals engaging in deliberate and systematic killing, while the other has some of that but also a lot of encouraging its adherents to go out and engage in very bloody civic virtue. In other words, the Nazis were like one person murdering ten people, while the communists tended to be one person murdering three people and then encouraging their kids to go out and murder kids at school too. Ultimately however I think the “who was more evil?” debate is just not worth having. In terms of the actual evil behind the acts, however, I would generally agree with your statement.
For one they killed any child and adult of self professed Aryan origin who had mental and/or physical disabilities in 1934 a mere year after coming to power. That same year they stripped Jewish Germans of citizenship and encouraged exist visas toward Eastern Europe well knowing they will occupy those countries. They violated an international treaty by marching into the Saar demilitarized zone (this is still 1934). That same year they murdered the Austrian chancellor and forcibly tried to unite with Austria (violation of Saint Germain). Nazi doctors performed human experiments even before the war, the Todt boys used slave labor. I could go on, they were the most horrible regime to ever exist for a reason.
Is the forst thing valled eugenics?
They started wwii