10 Disturbing Facts about the Nazis During World War II

10 Disturbing Facts about the Nazis During World War II
10 Disturbing Facts about the Nazis During World War II

10 Disturbing Facts about Nazi Germany During World War II

 

World War II was the most destructive war in the history of the world. It was also the most expensive, it damaged the most property, and it killed more people than any war previous or since. At the middle of all of this, and the catalyst for this destruction, was Nazi Germany.

 

The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, was led by Adolf Hitler, and it grew into a huge movement. This party enacted totalitarian rule. This political party was founded many years before, in 1919

, as the German Workers’ Party, which promoted anti-Semitism and German pride. The party was dissatisfied with the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I and also forced Germany to make a number of reparations and concessions.

 

Hitler joined the party almost as soon as it was founded, and he worked his way up to lead the party by 1921. In 1933 he became Germany’s chancellor, and as his Nazi ideals spread across the nation, he created a dictatorship. The Germans were defeated at the end of the war, and the Nazi Party was outlawed. Many of the top Nazi officials were also convicted of war crimes, most connected to the massacre of 6 million Jews during the reign of the Nazi.

 

Today, one can only imagine the horrors that occurred during this time in history, but millions lived through this disturbing time in the history of the world. Here are the 10 most disturbing facts about Nazi Germany during World War II:

10The Nazis Were Lovers of Animals

Hitler was a vegetarian. Weird.

9The Nazis Planned on Introducing Polygamy

The Nazis were in favor of polygamy. I didn’t know they were Mormons

8Heinrich Müller, the Head of the Gestapo, Simply Vanished and Has Never Been Found

Maybe he escaped to Argentina.

7Nazis Bred Giant Rabbits for Fur

The Nazis loved fluffy bunnies

6The Nazis Forced Prisoners to Kill Their Own People

The Nazis put Jews in prisons and turned them on each other.

5The Nazi Germans Controlled the Trains

The Nazis were truly horrible.

4The Nazis Turned Their Own Soldiers Into Drug Addicts

The Nazis kept their soldiers in an altered state.

3The Nazis Forced Jewish People to Live in Ghettos

The Nazis relocated the Jews and tried to starve them all to death.

2The Nazis Created a Jewish Collection of Skeletons

The Nazis only spread hate, destruction and death.

1The Nazis Performed Horrible Experiments on the Jews in the Camps

Auschwitz. A house of torture and death.