omg you have a healthy sleep schedule...i think i have to go to sleep earlier 🫣
So, I don't know where to begin… I've been studying the course of World War II extensively, focusing on various Nazi institutions and concentration camps.
I've visited two concentration camps, read several books, and watched films about them.
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian who originally wanted to be an artist. He applied to an art university in Vienna but was rejected.
Afterward, he went to Germany and joined a party, the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party). The Great Depression helped the NSDAP gain many followers.
Hitler promised jobs, order, and national strength. He was democratically elected and essentially made himself a dictator. He increasingly restricted the rights of Jews. They were no longer allowed to do anything, ride the tram, be out on the streets after dark, or even visit Christian friends. Jewish employees were dismissed, and so on. The Nazis were convinced that Jews were the root of all evil and had to be eliminated. (However, Jews were not the only ones persecuted. People of color, gay people, Roma and Sinti, disabled people, and others were also persecuted and murdered.)
There were also mass deportations; Jewish children were taken from school and sent with their families to concentration camps. I could talk much more about concentration camps (especially Auschwitz), but I won't now, otherwise this will get too long. In the concentration camps, people had to perform extremely hard labor under the most horrific conditions, and millions were gassed, for example, in gas chambers.
But the Nazis didn't only harm the Jews, etc., but also their "own" people. German and Austrian (also Christian) Children who were loud or defiant were classified as "difficult to educate" and were often sent to institutions for "difficult" children. They were tortured there (for example, they were only allowed to use the toilet for one minute; if they needed longer, the nurses pushed them off and made them clean up afterward, or in winter they were sent out naked into the snow and had to crawl for minutes on end until they couldn't anymore, as I said, I could tell you so much more). Many died there, and the senior doctors and nurses decided which lives were considered valuable and which were deemed unworthy. Lives deemed unworthy (for example, those with severe mental or physical disabilities) were killed in these institutions. Of course, they didn't tell the parents that they had killed their children. It was always stated that they had a severe case of pneumonia or some other lie.
I could talk about this for so much longer, but this would take too long.
Have u seen any movies about WW2?
