The Nazis’ Horrific Entertainment in the Concentration Camps
Between 1933 and 1945, more than 100 camps Nazi concentration was established at across all of Europe. Brutality, inhumane conditions, forced labor, systematized death, torture, suffering and scientific experiments were carried out part of daily life in these blocks. All were characteristics of these places which represented one of the darkest creations of being human.
But there were other aspects hidden like sadism and entertainment that satisfied the desires of these twisted human minds. This is the story of dark methods and cruel entertainment created by Nazis in the camps concentration. Welcome to The Marshall Memoirs. Hell for prisoners, fun for the guards. The camps of concentration were created with the aim to prohibit and eliminate anyone was considered a threat.
for the regime whether it is a threat internal or external. Opponents politics, sexual minorities ethnic, those considered as social marginalized by the Nazis and anyone who was perceived as deviant in reason for their crime, sexual practice or nuns passed through its doors. The Nazis claimed that rehabilitation was the function headquarters of the concentration camps and for this reason, he justified the ill-treatment necessary for break the moral resistance of those considered erroneous in their thoughts and practices by the regime. The
men and women taken by force in these camps were stripped of any trace of identity and humanity. He became the object of systematic assault on their basic needs and many of them found themselves cobail for experiments scientific as well as simple toys to entertain their little ones. No only adults, whether they are communists, Jews or gypsies, were victims of this type of action, but also children, found themselves subjected to scientific experiments endless sadomasochistic or simply to satisfy the dark desires of
these killing machines. Lots of soldiers SS were gradually becoming less only human, losing all sensitivity towards those he considered enemies. They did not do discrimination in their treatment of elderly people or children, daring even attack pregnant women and do with them what they wanted. Knowing that their lives were between them hands and that they could do practically everything they wanted with them and their property, the SS soldiers experimented on many people captured and detained in concentration camps. The people were
objectified and many SS soldiers used them to entertain themselves various ways. Among the methods of the most famous entertainment, we find the exhibition organization of boxing with weak prisoners, football matches with players agony because of the end, as well as the use of the talent of some to create music orchestras in order to cover up the screams of horror in the camp blocks.
But Himler’s men did not only use Jews and political opponents as objects of sporting and artistic pleasure. He them fetishizes to the point of making them objects of their sadomazochistic pleasure and darkest sexualities. In this regard, the Nazis did nothing distinction between men and women, children and adults. All became simple objects with which the soldiers could satisfy their appetite for human destruction.
So, before or after torturing them, beating them, starved to death or taken to the room gas, many SS soldiers in the concentration camps did this what they wanted from these people, simply for their own amusement. In this way, which represented a real hell for families who saw their lives slowly torn and exploited under all aspect became for the guards a place of pleasure.
Not only do they fulfilled their duties towards the fury, but they were also allowed to have fun, to have time for playtime and to use prisoners as objects of enjoyment and pleasure. The boxing exhibitions in the camps Nazis. For Heinrich Himler, head of the SS and one of the architects of the solution final, it was very important to maintain the morale of his guards high and for this he believed that the Reich had to invest in leisure, cultural and sporting activities.
In in this sense, boxing was perhaps one of the most important activities developed within these walls infernal. Young Perez was a Jew French born in Tunisia. He was champion of the middleweight boxing world in 1931. Only years later he was arrested by the Nazis in Drani in France. He was imprisoned for not having worn the famous yellow star.
From there he was sent to a concentration camp, more precisely at Auschwitz Monovitz. His captors recognized him quickly. His face seemed to them familiar and although his body is already bruised, he showed signs of disciplined athletes. One day, the guards asked Jung to offer them a private boxing demonstration. There he showed off his best moves while the guards were laughing and enjoying a private show for which others would have paid a fortune.
Young Perez was allowed to train for a few days and even received rations additional to rebuild a part of the muscle mass severely weakened by her stay in this hell who was at Auschwitz. A few days later, the soldiers suggested to him to fight an SS guard, a soldier quite corpulent, weighing around 75 kg and measuring approximately 1.80.
It was a fight of three rounds where Young came out victorious. He was then assigned to another adversary, an inmate named Paul Steinberg which he also built. The guards looked at him with admiration and amusement. They had in front of them a world champion offering a private exhibition in the middle of the horror they inflicted on humanity.
But the case of Jong Perez was not unique. Tadeuch Pierreikowski, a Polish boxer, had was finalist of the Polish championship Rooster Peas between 1940 and year 1943. He had between 40 and 60 fights in the main Auschwitz camp. In this arena, he built several deportees heavyweight Germans. as well as his own Walter Dunning hood.
This made him the most famous boxing champion of Auschwitz and he was applauded by the same Nazis who tortured him during the day. In the Mahausen camp, Segundo Espalargas was the sensation of boxing. Segundo, a republican Spanish also known as Polino, fought every Sunday at the request of Franz Ziris. The commander from the SS camp Paulino Husegundo was known like the courageous and undefeated boxer of Mahausen.
Nobody could conquer, not even the mighty soldiers SS who dared to challenge him. For Polino, fighting every Sunday was his only hope of staying alive. He believed that if it was sacrificed, the top command of the camp would lose its most great entertainment, watch it fight. However, this did not spare him from ill-treatment and torture all the prisoners suffered day after day.
The SS officers, few no matter in which camp they worked, were boxing fanatics. For detect potential combatants, it consulted the files of the detainees where even asked them during interrogations if they practiced boxing. Many prisoners lied and said they did, but were then beaten by those who were actually boxing.
The popularity of the Boxing was not new in Germany. When Hitler took power, boxing became one of the major components of the Nazi propaganda machine. It was the era of Max’s victories Schmelling, Herbert Rung and Willy Kaiser. All three had been victorious at the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 and were operated by Gbels to reaffirm his theory of racial superiority.
Boxing functioned not only as a propaganda tool, but also as a means of controlling and channeling the violence of Nazi society in a manner framed. The SS soldiers were therefore boxing fanatics and their diet offered their favorite entertainment in exchange of so-called patriotic service which he returned to the Rich by capturing and torturing Jews at Auschwitz and in the other concentration camps.
Melody from hell, the orchestras of the died in the camps. Hitler loved music. His favorite composer was Richard Wagner and he tried to transmit this taste for music classic to his subjects. In 1942, the director of the concentration camp Neengham requested a piano for his camp. It was a Volker 86, an elegant piano and very expensive.
Apart from that, this camp was known for not spending lots of luxury. The inspectors of camp were very fond of music classic or perhaps pretended be it to please their fury. Despite their taste for Wagner and others classical composers, soldiers Germans in the camps concentration were content much simpler instruments. The harmonica became the instrument of predilection in the camps, used both by the prisoners and by the guards.
Another instrument often seen in the blocks was the accordion. This instrument accompanied the rare moments of leisure that could be had prisoners and guards, but he was much more common to see it between hands of some Polish prisoners who still had the strength to play it. SS officers had a weakness for this instrument of German origin and gathered to listen to those who could play it.
The leaders Germans had difficulty finding professional musicians to play in the camps so they decided to improvise new orchestras with detainees. who would play for free in exchange for some rations additional. At Auschwitz, the first orchestra entirely composed of prisoners started playing in January 1941.
From then on, and until their liberation, concerts were given every Sunday on the esplanade behind the terrible block 24. This block was none other than a brothel where Nazi soldiers satisfied their sexual appetite with prisoners forced into prostitution. Thus, the moans of pain from attacks sexual abuse suffered by these Jewish women innocent people were covered by beautiful melodies played by the musicians forced to give a concert for his sadistic soldiers.
The orchestra of Auschwitz had a varied program including works by Beethoven, Schubert, Bach and Wagner himself. A other concentration camp did not want not be outdone by this innovative initiative of hierarchs of Auschwitz. These were the authorities of Birkenu camp which created the second prisoner orchestra.
There, the musicians received treatment from favor over others prisoners, especially female prisoners. They got an extra ration of food and even rations of cognac in exchange for their services musical. The musicians of Birkeno even experimented with melodies South American in addition to playing the classical repertoire requested by their executioner.
Such success of the orchestras of SS prisoners pushed the camps industrialists of the Auschwitz complex have their own orchestras for cheer up the Nazi executioners. Coco Schuman, a young German pioneer of swing in this country, was imprisoned in Thérésienstad then deported to Aushwitz. Schuman probably found a way to survive this hell on earth thanks to its popularity with soldiers.
The guards asked his orchestra playing his classic La Dove to appease the prisoners as he walked towards the bedroom Gas making this German hitwing the pre-death melody heard by hundreds of Jews. Another orchestra famous was trained in the camp of women of Birkenao under the direction of the head supervisor Maria. He was led by a Jewish prisoner named Alma Rosé.
She organized two concerts per week for the pleasure of executioners. The band started to play on instruments confiscated from Jews murdered. Alma Rosé was so acclaimed by the Nazi public of Birkeno that one day she had two guards buried who spoke during the concert. She then realized that this spontaneous gesture could have cost him his life.
But Alma was too important for leisure of his soldiers and guards and for this reason, they spared his life. Failure, cards, tarot and other entertainment for the Nazis. SS guards also appreciated a wide range board games. The commanders and local directors made requests to get these very vog games in Nazi families.
There were games of all types. D games, D games cards, strategy games. For example, Fangenut was a board game launched during the Republic of Vaimar and again very popular during the years of war. It was a game where the pawns were hat-shaped and could be stacked. The board was round with a central cross and the game required the logic of the participants.
Although he was also popular with children because of its simplicity, other more adult themed games were also common on directors’ offices as well as in the corridors between the guards. The chess and checkers were very popular during leisure time SS bites. Many prisoners were sometimes invited by their executioners to measure their skills in chess and checkers, but Ukrainians recruited by the Waffen SS, assigned to the camp were particularly gifted in these games and beat regularly the SS officers who looked suspiciously, secretly
convinced that these prisoners were smarter than them. This is why many prisoners allowed themselves beat. because the fact that a player of a supposedly inferior race beats them to intelligence games went against Nazi propaganda. However, he also happened that the victories of the Jewish prisoners at chess be justified by a frequent accusation of the regime, the supposed Russian of the Jews, accused of deceiving the Germans to extort money from them or shoot advantage of their purity and innocence. It is therefore possible that
certain games of chess between a executioner and a prisoner led to violent beatings due to of the unfavorable result for the executioner. Cards were the game most popular among soldiers and captives. Dozens and dozens of card games were distributed in the barracks. Most popular being the Scat Karten.
Scat was a old German game originating from Turinge whose great popularity was born among the soldiers during the First World War. Other soldiers were even encouraged to play tarot. A fairly occult practice widespread among the Nazis. In this regard, it should be noted that despite a facade of fervent Catholicism, the Nazis were attracted by the practices esoteric such as astrology, alchemy, kabala and theosophy.
They had immense respect for these disciplines which were rejected at the end of the century by the elites of the society. The Nazis claimed publicly and secretly their beliefs in the stars linked to their mission of regeneration of humanity. It is therefore not surprising that the tarot practice has become popular in concentration camps.
Maybe some soldiers were looking for answers in the stars and the beyond on the mission which had been entrusted to them and on what had the future in store for them. Play football in the camps to survive. Many SS soldiers worked their body to compensate for the long hours spent stationary in the guard towers or posts monitoring.
Some practiced bodybuilding while others spent their time playing or watch football matches. A sport in full popularity in Germany. The Nazis believed in sport as a means to mobilize men in an effort collective and competitive. And in this regard, football and handball were two favorite sports of Himmler’s men. During World War II, several football teams and handball were trained and some of them participated in matches organized inside the camps concentration.
The SS teams participated in championships against teams from other organizations close ones such as the LuftwaV or the Vermart. The soldiers of the camps Polish general government also organized several championships between them. Not only this corresponded to the Nazi idea of team and competitive sport, but from 1942, the war machine Nazi depended more and more on forced labor available in camps of concentration.
Himler needed that camp workers always produce more and better and for this reason he did not see inconvenience to give them a little off on Sunday, which many prisoners took advantage of attend football matches or even participate in it. Before Aolphe Hitler did not take power in 1933, he There were clubs founded in Germany by Jewish communities who were later banned and closed.
Two of the most popular were the Kjba bar in Frankfurt and the Akoa in Esessen. Everything like famous boxers were exhibited in concentration camps, footballers were also imprisoned and sent to these places of dead. Among the best known are Heines Kertz, Bella Gutman, Eddie Hamel and Julius Hch. Saturnino Navazo, a spanish footballer from tendan republicans, was arrested in France by the Germans and transferred to the camp Maouthausen.
When the Nazis discovered who he was, they decided that rather than submit to working conditions inhumane, it was better to deprive him little food, but give him some additional rations for train him in football. Thanks to his talent, Navaso was transferred to kitchens where he lives a little better and he even managed to save the life of a young person Jewish boy from Frankfurt named Sickfried Meer whom he adopted as his son at end of the war.
These famous stories of prisoners playing the game of their life against guards are not entirely true. The matches are often took place in conditions very precarious. There was no always 11 players against 11. Sometimes we played with rag balloons and the prisoner teams were formed according to different criteria. The Nazis liked to form teams of prisoners according to their nationality or their profession.
In in certain cases, there were teams of carpenters, teams of cooks, teams of staff cleaning, among other things. What is certain, it is that the SS appreciated to play with each other and forced prisoners to watch and applaud. And he also took pleasure in seeing how starving prisoners, without any physical preparation, played between them, some fainting right in the middle match, were hanging out of the field by arms because the show had to continue.
He’s ticking off the female dog Buckenwald. The Nazis were not satisfied not to play sports or observe prisoners in agony to entertain themselves. One of their biggest obsessions hidden was sex. The Nazis exalted beauty by building a cult of the almost Greek body. In their art, their film and their daily life, nudity and sex were omnipresent.
This sexual obsession lived many senior leaders Nazis, but also the soldiers in the concentration camps. In this regard, a story deserves to be told reason for its impact, that of them more known as the female dog of Buckenwald. A fanatical Nazi soldier, nymphomaniac, sadist and murderer. Angelic looking with hair slightly curly hair and a face that seemed carved by the Greek gods.
He was a sensation among his SS comrades. She was a seductress natural and knew how to use her beauty to get what she wanted, no only on the political level, but also to satisfy his impulses more basic. Rooster was a fervent follower of Nazi dogma. She admired the fury with all his heart. His fanaticism politics, his oratorical power, his beauty and her capacity for seduction deserve to become one of the most important supervisors of SS concentration camps.
Its true name was Margarité. They Culler and her came from an urban class background average. His father had worked in a factory during the Republic of Vaimar, which had also oriented him towards the same path. After a few years, she landed a job in a bookstore where she probably entered contact with Nazi ideology for first time.
She joined the party Nazi in and met Heinrich Himler in person who introduced her to her future husband Carles Coch, one of the main deputies of the head of the SS. Her husband was colonel in the concentration camp Saxonhausen. She married him in 1936 and 1939. They settled in Bukenwald where his life changed forever. They had three children in Buckenwald but one of them died while they were ski vacation.
The nanny called them to tell them the news, but this did not deter them from their stay. Her husband, already in Saxenhausen, was renowned for being one of the most respected colonels more cruel and brutal. The prisoners said that he liked to punish his captives with a whip equipped with the soul of razor.
Carl Cock also loved to torture using hot iron or crushing the fingers of those who questioned him. Her face of pleasure during her torture sessions were, it was said, inimitable. He took one of the most famous twisters of Nazi Germany. They were united no by love, but by the pleasure he drew from the pain of others. It’s why he asked his husband to build a huge property a few meters from the concentration camp of Bouenwald to exhibit all their dark and sadistic pleasures.
Behind these walls, Hills and Carl organized collective orgies in rooms full of mirrors. He started to fill your closets with clothes and Europe’s most expensive perfumes obsessed by its appearance. She loved to ride horse and was often seen roaming the countryside with a whip in hand. One of his greatest pleasures was to throw hungry dogs at pregnant prisoners, laughing and screaming pleasure in the face of such a spectacle horrifying.
These were his activities diurnal. But at night, Coque turned into a demon even more depraved. In this hall of mirrors, she organized lesbian orgies with up to two women at the same time, to which her husband’s subordinates also participated, sometimes through obligation, for fear of this woman feared. One of these practices most depraved consisted of waiting for the new prisoners arriving at Buchenwald, the naked saints, and their making sexual comments, while forcing them to touch his body.
When they dared to look at her, she struck with his whip. Its degeneration had no limits. Human skin lamp and others hidden hobbies of them coquettish as she exposed her pleasures nymphoman in his vast property, they shut up, the female dog of Bushenwald, discovered a new macabre hobby made furniture with skin human.
On April 11, 1945, a young American soldier Abner Ganette arrived at lockers in Bukenwald. When he entered in this room his face became livid. He found fine lamps there decorated, painted with pretty butterflies and birds. Ganet approached of the lamp and felt that something wasn’t going. By touching her, he began automatically vomit, just like his colleagues.
They didn’t believe their eyes. The lamps were made of skins tense humans. Suddenly, behind him a woman with an angelic face appeared and with colorful curls. It was he check herself who asked her if she found the lamps beautiful. She doesn’t showed no shame or regret, but rather a pride in his work macabre. But it wasn’t about only lamp.
Coche owned also a large shell handbag made of the same material. The lamps were not that the beginning of a spectacle worthy of worst horror film imaginable. He tick, also loved decorating his house with other macabre objects. The Bushenwald female dog had a passion for the collection of human heads of prisoners murdered in the camp.
She exhibited more than a dozen in his living room. Their size was particular because they had been chemically shrunk to be more small than normal. Coch had a obsession with human skin beneath all its forms. She also loved tattoos. American soldiers found albums in his house photo of prisoner tattoos and he is believed that they had a great interest for this type of skin work.
This album had been compiled by one of his many lovers, doctor SS Erich Wagner. It is said that he had become so obsessed with her work that she had asked her husband to kill everyone the prisoners that Wagner had photographed in order to be able to exhibit their skin at home and make various decorative objects or clothing.
He would have made people work for her on the dissection of corpses prisoners who had been until that moment’s barracks companion unfortunate men killed for their tattoo. A prisoner has the same going so far as to claim Kills had fabricated underwear with skin tattooed human. He was part of his prisoners that he ticks allit look at the camp gate for the seduce him by showing him part of his body and when he succumbed to charm of the female dog of Bukenwald, he could see her underwear.
But his fate was already sealed and a few minutes later he would be beaten to dead with whips for even more Insensitive Nazi Lady Pleasure. Sound taste for dissection and decoration with human skin soon protruded the borders of Buchenwald and became a hobby for other wives of concentration camp commanders. Jewish children who became Nazi toys, concentration camp guards Nazis do not just punish and mistreat men and women adults.
Some took pleasure even more macabre to transform the children of the camps in object of entertainment. Some SS guards took pleasure in beating children Jews against the walls until they disappear before desperate eyes of their helpless captive mother. Other children at Auschwitz and Buchenwald suffered from hunger desperate, pushing them to look for food where they could.
The most courageous dared to defy the prohibitions to steal food from responsible for the camps themselves. Number of these children ended up the worst manners. Not only murdered, but brutally beaten to death. The children in concentration camps lived in inhumane conditions. Some were sent to forced labor, others lived with hunger like daily sensation and more saw their brothers and sisters more young people die in their arms under the indifferent or even delighted look of SS soldiers.
But the biggest story macabre is that of Eva and Myiam, twin sisters become toys favorites of the terrible Joseph Mengeley known as the angel of death. Eva etiam Mosè Cor were sent to Aushwitz with their families in 1944. Joseph Mengelet, already famous at that time for his inhumane experiments, carried out all kinds of experiments on human beings at Aushwitz.
One of the greatest obsessions of this immense criminal history was discover the secret behind the birth of twins. Because one of great objectives of the fury was to accelerate the reproduction of Germans to populate all of Europe the East. Mengele believed that understanding breeding twins could help this objective allowing more of Germans to have two or three children at a time.
Eva and Myiam were only 14 years old when they fell into the terrible hands of Joseph Mengle. This doctor from hell wandered around the barracks from Auschwitz in a white suit impeccable, attracting children with chocolates to greet them. He them treated well at first, but then he examined their bodies to see if they were suitable for his experiments.
It’s as well as he met Eva and Myiam who became his favorite toys for his scientific experiments. Mengele liked to attach the binoculars by the arms to restrict their circulation blood until she fade away. At that time, Mengeley injected chemicals into their eyes and administered more of five injections in other parts of their body.
The prisoners of Auschwitz recounted how the children approached Mengeley with enthusiasm, thinking that he was harmless, but came out crying and screaming after having suffered his torture. Meanwhile, the angel of death came out of his laboratory with a smile from ear to ear, so floating classic melodies. Not only he had fulfilled his duty scientist, but the sadistic doctor took malicious pleasure in tormenting Jewish children and Cigan.
The mess of Musen. Although the Nazis claimed to be conservative in matters of sexual practice, this apparent restraint seemed more of a speech than a reality. The Nazis believed that sexual activity was necessary to maintain the Arian race and populate Europe with Germans supposedly superior. They encouraged so sexual relations premarital and among adolescents, but insisting on the idea that the main objective was not the personal pleasure, but reproduction in honor of the fury.
In this regard, homosexuality represented a large problem for Hitler because it reduced the possibility of reproduction. It’s why Himmler thought he would wise to install a network of brothel in the different camps concentration. While death fell in series a few meters away, the SS soldiers responsible for could operate this macabre system maintain sexual relations promiscuous so as not to lose their virility and not being tempted to sleep with other soldiers or even worse mix with Jewish prisoners and sexually assault them. one
of the most famous brothels was that of Motozen who was the very first to be set up to entertain its guards insatiable. In this camp, the brothel was installed in barrack number 1 and in a building in the Guzen subcamp. 35 German women of modest origin were there sent, recruited with the promise to be released soon, a promise which was never held.
The Mahausen brothel became hell for these women while that it satisfied the sexual appetite of SS murderers. But this shit wasn’t not only accessible to soldiers. Some prisoners could also enjoy. Jews and Soviets were excluded from this pleasure reserved for some Austrian prisoners, German and French politicians. Many of these prisoners were looking above all a moment of comfort and listening rather than a relationship sexual.
There is another aspect of this story, that of the prisoners lucky people selected to participate in that kind of pleasure. None of them was Jewish and to get this privilege, you had to be a obedient worker who satisfied all the desires of the SS. Most of them were the workers more qualified, such as repairers of buildings, plumbers, electricians, cooks or even musicians and footballers.
It is interesting to note that those which were trendy communists were the most likely to refuse such invitation. In fact, they encouraged their comrades to resist the temptation and not to take advantage of the situation of sexual slavery in where were these poor people German women. Those who do not were only looking for entertainment and treated these women like objects were the SS soldiers who were so that some women have given birth with more than five Germans in a single day.
Sexual pleasure of these abject murderers was guaranteed while these women counted the hours until their release by the allies. Adolf Hitler believed that his mission was to change the world and that it was necessary to create a new humanity where the Arians would dominate the rest of the peoples. This mission required the participation of German people as a whole and especially the soldiers who accompanied him in this madness.
The Nazis created the concentration camps like places where they eliminated their greatest ethnic and political enemies of the society, using them as a hand of slave labor to contribute to their war economy. But they realized quickly as the prisoners could also serve as objects for their darkest pleasures and amusements. SS guards needed leisure and what better way to satisfy this need only use these people already dehumanized.
With this objective in head, the Nazis were having fun organizing boxing exhibitions, football matches, card games, musical orchestras, brothels and even using prisoners as raw material for decoration macabre houses of their most sinister representatives like family Hull. The Nazis in the camps concentration demonstrated that the horror the deepest inflicted on a being human can be supplemented by the pleasure, enjoyment and entertainment of those who make it.
These episodes lead us to think about very deep way on the darkness to which can affect a human being.
