Unbelievable facts
Military history has many cases of brutality, deceit and betrayal.
Some cases are striking in their scale, others in their belief in absolute impunity, one thing is obvious: for some reason, some people who find themselves in harsh military conditions for some reason decide that they have no law, and they have the right to control others' destinies, making people suffer.
Below are some of the most terrible realities that took place during wartime.
1. Nazi children's factories
The photo below shows the baptism of a young child who was “bred” by Aryan selection.
During the ceremony, one of the SS men holds a dagger over the baby, and the new mother takes an oath of allegiance to the Nazis.
It is important to note that this baby was one of tens of thousands of babies who participated in the Lebensborn project. However, not all children were given a life in this children's factory, some were kidnapped and only raised there.
True Aryan Factory
The Nazis believed that there were few Aryans with blond hair and blue eyes in the world, so it was decided, by the way, by the same people who were responsible for the Holocaust, to launch the project” Lebensborn”, which was engaged in breeding purebred Aryans who were to join the Nazi ranks in the future.
It was planned to settle the children in beautiful houses that were appropriated after the mass extermination of Jews.
It all started with the fact that after the occupation of Europe, SS men were actively encouraged to mix with indigenous people. The main thing is that the Nordic race should grow in number.
As part of the Lebensborn program, pregnant unmarried girls were placed in fully equipped homes where they gave birth and raised their children. Thanks to this care, it was possible to raise between 16,000 and 20,000 Nazis during the war.
But, as it turned out later, this number was not enough, so other measures were taken. The Nazis began to forcibly deprive mothers of children who had the right hair and eye color.
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It should be added that many of the abducted children were orphans. Of course, fair skin and the absence of parents are no excuse for the activities of the Nazis, but, nevertheless, at that very difficult time, children had plenty to eat and a roof over their heads.
Some parents gave their children away to avoid ending their lives in the gas chamber. Those who were most suitable for the specified parameters were selected literally immediately, without further persuasion.
At the same time, no genetic examinations were carried out, and children were selected based only on visual information. Those selected were included in the program, or they were sent to a German family. Those who did not qualify ended their lives in concentration camps.
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Poles say that because of this program, the country lost about 200,000 children. But it is unlikely that it will ever be possible to find out the exact figure, because many children have successfully settled into German families.
Violence during the war
2. Hungarian Angels of Death
Don't think that only fascists committed atrocities during the war. Ordinary Hungarian women shared the pedestal of perverse war nightmares with them.
It turns out that you don't have to serve in the army to commit crimes. These lovely home front guards joined forces to send almost three hundred people to the next world.
It all started during the First World War. It was then that many women living in the village of Nagirev, whose husbands went to the front, began to take an interest in the nearby Allied prisoners of war.
Women liked these kinds of affairs, and prisoners of war, apparently, too. But when their husbands started coming back from war, something crazy started to happen. Soldiers died one by one. Because of this, the village was called the “murder area”.
The murders began in 1911, when a midwife named Fuzekas arrived in the village. She also taught women who were temporarily left without husbands to get rid of the consequences of contacts with lovers.
After the soldiers began to return from the war, the midwife suggested that the wives brew sticky paper designed to kill flies to get arsenic, and then add it to food.
Arsenic
Thus, they were able to commit a huge number of murders, and women remained unpunished due to the fact that the village official was the brother of the midwife and in all death certificates of the victims wrote “not killed”.
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The method has become so popular that almost any, even the most insignificant problem, began to be solved with arsenic soup. When neighboring settlements finally understood what was going on, fifty criminals managed to kill 300 people, including unwanted husbands, lovers, parents, children, relatives, and neighbors.
Hunting for humans
3. Human body parts as a trophy
It is important to say that during the war, many countries carried out propaganda among their soldiers, in which they instilled in their brains that the enemy is not a person.
American soldiers also excelled in this regard, and they actively influenced their psyche. So-called “hunting licenses” were distributed among them.
One of them sounded like this: The Japanese hunting season is open! There are no restrictions! Hunters get rewarded! Free ammo and equipment! Join the U.S. Marines!
Therefore, it is not surprising that American soldiers killed the Japanese during the battle of Guadalcanal, cut off their ears and kept them as souvenirs.
Moreover, necklaces were made from the victims' teeth, their skulls were sent home as souvenirs, and their ears were often worn around their necks or belts.
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In 1942, the problem became so widespread that the command was forced to issue a decree prohibiting the appropriation of enemy body parts in the form of trophies. But the measures were too late, because the soldiers had already fully mastered the technology of cleaning and cutting skulls.
The soldiers loved to take pictures with them.
This “fun” is firmly entrenched. Even Roosevelt was forced to abandon the writing knife, which was made from Japanese leg bone. It seemed like the whole country was going crazy.
The light at the end of the tunnel came after a furious reaction from readers of the Life newspaper, who published photos (and there were countless of them) aroused anger and disgust. The Japanese reacted the same way.
The most violent woman
4. Irma Grese is a person (?) — hyena
What can happen in a concentration camp that can terrify even a person who has seen so much?
Irma Grese was a Nazi warden who was sexually aroused while torturing people.
In terms of appearance, Irma was the ideal of an Aryan teenager, because she perfectly met established beauty standards, was physically strong and ideologically prepared.
Inside, he was a man — a time bomb.
This is Irma without her paraphernalia. However, she almost always walked around with a jewel-studded whip, a gun, and a few hungry dogs who were ready to do whatever she wanted.
This woman could shoot anyone at her whim, whipping prisoners and kicking them. That made her very excited.
Irma loved her job very much. She received incredible physical pleasure cutting through the breasts of female prisoners to blood. The wounds became inflamed, and surgery was usually required, which was performed without anesthesia.
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She was always present in the operating room because she enjoyed the most during surgeries.
She was only 22 when she was convicted and hanged.
Cannibalism at war
5. The incident on the Japanese island
During one of the battles of World War II, nine American pilots were shot down over the Japanese island of Chichi-jima. One was picked up by the Finback submarine, and the rest were captured.
It is known that all prisoners were executed with a samurai sword. By wartime standards, this is not unusual. But what happened later doesn't fit into any framework.
It is said that after the execution, Japanese army soldiers and officers decided to throw a party. But the snack ran out in the middle of the evening. Then one of the officers ordered to get some kimo from the fresh grave.
Kimo meant liver. The order was carried out, and the fried liver took its place on the festive table among other dishes.
This was just the beginning. To avoid falling into the mud in front of the army, Japanese Navy officers began to execute their American prisoners and bring them to the table! And that's not all.
Some prisoners of war were executed after eating them. Their limbs were cut off and eaten immediately, because there were no refrigerators on the island to store meat.
It's worth saying something about one rescued pilot who was picked up by a submarine. It was George Bush Sr.