Nazi war crime

Nazi crime or Hitlerite crime (Polish: Zbrodnia nazistowska or zbrodnia hitlerowska) is a legal concept used in some legal systems (for example in Polish law).

In the Polish legal system, a Nazi crime is an action carried out by, inspired by or tolerated by public functionaries of Nazi Germany (1933-1945) that also classifies as a crime against humanity (in particular, genocide) or other persecutions of people due to their belonging to a particular national, political, social, ethnic or religious group. Nazi crimes were perpetrated against Communists, homosexuals, Jews, Roma, Sinti and socialists.

Criminal acts committed by Nazis included physical crimes such as beating, gassing and drowning as well as property crimes.

Crimes during the Holocaust included physical crimes. In Ukraine, an estimated 400,000 Jewish people were killed in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. On average per day about 1,864 Jewish people died. Most of the people who were murdered during the Holocaust never had proper burials. Ukraine has over 750 mass graves where groups of five or more Jewish people were marched into mass pits and shot in the back. 5,000 Jews were marched from Ukraine into these pits. To save bullets children would be thrown into pits of fire to be burned alive.

Physical crimes also included "criminal assault on innocent and helpless victims" and victims were "beaten, drowned, whipped, shot, ran over, strangled, gassed, and hung." These crimes included sexual crimes or crimes that "were directed at women’s genitalia." Another ‘popular’ way the Nazis murdered people was to have them euthanized. The Nazi crimes also included genocide.

The Nazis permitted different crimes including property crimes and crimes against classes of people. The Nazis took away all of the Jews' possessions and incomes in order to make it harder for the Jewish people to live elsewhere before the onset of the Holocaust. The victims of the Holocaust were described by the Nazis as “criminals who endangered public safety”. The central Nazi camp for Jews between 1940 and 1945 was Auschwitz; where “at least ten thousand POWs were murdered”. Gypsies, as well as Jews and gays were murdered in this concentration camp. “Most of those who entered the Nazi camp system, whether gay, Jewish, Roma, or Sinti, did not survive”.

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