breach of human rights in nazi germany

ideas?

So much more than just Jews... Homosexuals, Romanies, Polaks, some blacks... the list goes on.

Julius Streicher is the main protagonist of the Jewish side of this debate. Hitler was more concerned with the economical benefits of removing Jews than seeing Jews eliminated. This is not to say that Hitler wasn't an out an out arsehole, that's granted, also it is no argument that Hitler was fascinated by holy relics of Chrisitian, Greek, Germanic, Russian, Czech and Jewish origin.

As to the human rights issues if you were German and DOING (working, fighting, producing farming etc.) for your country then you were almost secure in the reich. I said some blacks earlier because it is a documented fact that black men served in the Wermacht.

However, if you were not DOING for the fatherland you were expendable, TOTALLY expendable. Arbeitslager (labour camps) were introduced based on schemes from the British in the Boer war and were used to help various arms of the German war effort. This then escalated with pressure from people like Streicher, Heidrich et al and Hitler gave the go ahead for Vernichtungslager, extermination camps.

This is where the human rights issues takes a funny turn. The SS started out shooting Untermensch (subhumans) but Himmler deemed this as psychologically exhausting for the executioners. What better way to rid the world of Untermensch than to get them to do it for us, was the line of thinking. Carbon monoxide was used at first, but it took too long and was too costly, so experiments were undertaken and a pesticide was found to be rather efficient; Zyklon B.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Anymore for anymore?