Second world war, world war ii, dehumanisation, totalitarianism, air raids, bombing, war prisoners, concentration camp
The Great War resulted in the brutalisation of society and the emergence of totalitarian regimes, which had enormous repercussions on the civilian populations during the Second World War. Totalitarian regimes are political regimes based on a single party, on political police, on the indoctrination of populations and propaganda. These totalitarian regimes, which are ready to do anything to annihilate their enemies and impose their ideology, use all the means at their disposal to achieve this, including targeting civilian populations. Nevertheless, the allies who aim to achieve victory, to ensure that the free world wins the war, have also used various means to achieve this and have caused civilian casualties and collateral damage as a result. Consequently, there is great violence that is exercised against civilians, literally breaking all military conventions, civilians become the target of all possible crimes: imprisonment, deportation, executions, torture, bombings... Civilian losses represent 40 to 52 million deaths out of 60 million victims in total. Most of the time, totalitarian regimes pursue a policy of« ethnic and racial cleansing », decimating entire populations. These acts took the name of« genocide » and of « crime against humanity », these incriminations were created in 1945 in the Statute of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal.
[...] Until 1941, the Nazis wanted to deport the Jewish populations outside the Reich, to Eastern Europe or to Madagascar. In the conquered territories, the Jews had to crowd into ghettos: there were, for example, more than 400,000 in that of Warsaw. Mortality is very high there, especially because of the famine. The mass killings committed by the operational groups are quickly deemed ineffective, too costly and too taxing on the minds of executioners. On January the Wannsee conference validated the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question it is now a question of deporting all the Jews of Europe to killing centers to murder them en masse. [...]
[...] Saint-Nazaire paid a heavy price for the Allied bombings of the Second World War. The city was 85% destroyed in 1943, killing 573 people in the population, the port city is, according to figures, as devastated as Lorient. One of the deadliest Allied bombings took place on May in Marseilles with around 2,400 victims, including 400 Germans, but also 3,000 injured. The Allied bombings in France caused approximately 75,000 deaths between 1942 and 1945, mainly civilians. France is, after Germany, the second country most affected by Allied bombings from 1940 to 1945. [...]
[...] Both the Axis countries and the Allies choose to massively bombard their adversaries, thus causing collateral damage. The targets are communication routes such as roads and bridges, economic infrastructure such as factories, which cause both material and human damage. During the Second World War, an armistice was signed on June in France, which allowed the German armies to occupy half of the country, the west and the north. Factories, power plants, administrative centers, railway networks, communication nodes and naval bases then became targets of Allied bombardments which were launched during air raids causing unintentional civilian casualties. [...]
[...] An estimated 7.5 million Soviet civilians died, the 900-day siege of Leningrad imposed on the city of Leningrad by the Wehrmacht caused a heavy toll: 111,000 civilians disappeared civilians killed by the bombardments and approximately 1,000,000 died of starvation. Or even the Poles who are badly considered by the Third Reich,1.8 and 1.9 million Poles perished during the German occupation. The war for Hitler must allow the advent of a racially pure "Aryan" society from which the Jews and those whom the Nazis consider as "abnormal" would disappear, that is to say the handicapped, the homosexuals. [...]
[...] Finally, aren't civilians at the heart of this abominable Second World War? In a first part we will see that this war is a war of annihilation, then that this war is strongly tinged with ideology. A war of annihilation The goal is to totally destroy the adversary: we speak of a war of annihilation. Urban bombardments are made to undermine the morale of the adversary, the material and human cost of these operations is immense: certain cities, in particular in Germany, are entirely destroyed, while the civilian victims are counted by tens of thousands. [...]
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