DEATH PENALTY
WHEN LIFE GENERATES DEATH (LEGALLY)
NAZISM
During the Nazi regime, there was a great increse of death condemnations and executions in Germany and in the occupated States, as well as the deaths in the concentration camps.
| Year | Condamnations | Executions |
|
| 1933 | 78 | 84 |
| 1934 | 104 | 79 |
| 1935 | 98 | 94 |
| 1936 | 76 | 68 |
| 1937 | 86 | 106 |
| 1938 | 89 | 117 |
From the "night of the crystals" (9th November 1938) the persecutions against the Jews increase in the Reich of Hitler; and the attempt to instaurate a "new European order" before and after the World War Two extended the executions and the extermination.
Adolf Hitler, the Führer, had the idea of creating a pure race, the Aryan race, without any "external contamination"; for this reason he ordinated the internment in the concentration camps for Jews, black people, gypsys, omosexuals, who were systematically killed by the SS, the choice Nazi guards, in the most cruel and heavy ways. The concentration camps were real torture camps: the prisoners lived in incredible hygienic conditions, massed in rooms without WC; they had to get up very early in the morning, with a little slice of bread and a few margarine and nothing more for breakfast, and to work continuosly till evening. There was no way to escape or to rebel: the camp was surrounded by walls with electric wires, and one who disobeyed was immediately shot; prisoners were often shot only because SS wanted it.
