Germany’s brutal treatment of civilians and POW can be split into two rationales, political and racial respectively.
The Nazi-German regime was notorious for unwarranted attacks on civilians and throughout WWII an estimated 25 million civilians from allied countries were killed. Majority of civilian deaths at the hands of the Germans were collateral damage, for example the German bombing raid on the Yugoslavian capital city of Belgrade which resulted in 300,000 civilian casualties. However, cases exist of malicious civilian attacks such as the incident on the 3rd of September 1939 when a German U-Boat sunk The British Transatlantic Passenger, The SS Athenia, killing 128 civilians on board. Another example are the 250,000 Polish civilians and soldiers who participated in the Warsaw uprising and were sent to concentration camps as a result.
Germany used racism and antisemitism as one of the principal tenets of the regime due to the fact they maintained the notion that races outside of the master “Aryan” race were inferior. The Germans used this concept as justification for their inhumane treatment of …show more content…
As Germany was liberated, they renounced the National Socialist ideology from all aspects of German culture. This included political, economic, intellectual and cultural. Denazification was also concerned with persecution from executive positions or from public office of active members of the former National Socialist Party. This process was called denazification and was carried out largely by the Allied Powers. This was monumental for reconciliation between Germany and its victims because it separated Germany from the Nazi party and publicly showed the Nazi party being screened and removed, consequently the victims felt that were getting retribution for the
The Nazi-German regime was notorious for unwarranted attacks on civilians and throughout WWII an estimated 25 million civilians from allied countries were killed. Majority of civilian deaths at the hands of the Germans were collateral damage, for example the German bombing raid on the Yugoslavian capital city of Belgrade which resulted in 300,000 civilian casualties. However, cases exist of malicious civilian attacks such as the incident on the 3rd of September 1939 when a German U-Boat sunk The British Transatlantic Passenger, The SS Athenia, killing 128 civilians on board. Another example are the 250,000 Polish civilians and soldiers who participated in the Warsaw uprising and were sent to concentration camps as a result.
Germany used racism and antisemitism as one of the principal tenets of the regime due to the fact they maintained the notion that races outside of the master “Aryan” race were inferior. The Germans used this concept as justification for their inhumane treatment of …show more content…
As Germany was liberated, they renounced the National Socialist ideology from all aspects of German culture. This included political, economic, intellectual and cultural. Denazification was also concerned with persecution from executive positions or from public office of active members of the former National Socialist Party. This process was called denazification and was carried out largely by the Allied Powers. This was monumental for reconciliation between Germany and its victims because it separated Germany from the Nazi party and publicly showed the Nazi party being screened and removed, consequently the victims felt that were getting retribution for the