Hitler and the Nazi party had a strong belief in Social Darwinism. They believed that each race didn’t have just have physical traits but traits that were meant for that race that made them superior compared to other races. The Nazi’s believed that the German Aryan Race had traits that made them superior to anybody else. Everybody else who wasn’t Aryan or deemed worthy were considered inferior. Races like the Slavs and Jews were deemed to have inferior traits thus they were inferior.
Hitler blamed all of Germany’s problems on the Jews and many people believed them. Jews were thought to be so inferior they weren’t considered “people”.
Political prisoners were anybody who didn’t believe in Nazism. For example people who …show more content…
When we arrived, 200 of us were decided to be unfit for work and to be returned to Auschwitz. My brother and Uncle saved my life, arguing that I was 14 but a dwarf. The remaining 199 returned to face the gas chambers. Buchenwald had its own set of monsters. Our conditions didn’t improve. This time we were forced to work for the German Death machine. Producing the same weapons and munitions that would potentially kill more of our undesirables. Those who resisted were shot. At Buchenwald we had Dr. Carl Vaernet. Surprisingly he wasn't German, but of Danish origin. An honorary Aryan they told us. He was a physician. However it seemed like he forgot the Hippocratic Oath. We were the guinea pigs, the slaves, the undesirables. Forced to go under the needle with experimental vaccines that killed hundreds of us. Dr. Vaernet even had a proposition that he could cure homosexuality. Everyday, the SS would march prisoners out into the stables, shot them, or brought then to the crematorium to be hung. The stench of death didn’t leave us. It stayed with us, it haunted us, following us for every seconds of everyday. We never knew who was next. I was later deported to Flossenburg, just another camp in the German Death