Forums → WEPR → Did Nazi concentration camps have the most inhuman treatment?

ya probably

Based on the records we have from that time, yes. I can't really think of another time when people were treated so poorly. The point of the camps was to efficiently hold and then murder as many people as could be sent to them. Though there are many instances of inhuman treatment in our history the nazi camps have to be the worst.

Possibly not. Cambodian camps set up under Pol Pot had an even lower survival rates, even though they were not specifically designed killing centres. The scale of the Nazi extermination and labour camps is what is so abhorrent.

They may have in some instances but are we forgetting about ancient torture what with the Brazen Bull, The brazen bull is an execution/torture device designed in ancient Greece. Perillos of Athens, a brass-founder proposed to Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, the invention of a new means for executing criminals; accordingly, he cast a brazen bull, made totally of brass, hollow, with a door in the side. The condemned was shut up in the bull and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until it became "red hot" and causing the person inside to slowly roast to death. So that 'nothing unseemly might spoil his feasting', Phalaris commanded that the bull be designed in such a way that its smoke rose in spicy clouds of incense. The head of the ox was designed with a complex system of tubes and stops so that the prisoner's screams were converted into sounds like the bellowing of an infuriated bull.

Or The Revolving drum

Think of this one as somewhat akin to grating cheese, only this one grates a human torso ever so slowly. A popular tool in Spain for extracting information from prisoners many years ago, the Revolving Drum calls for victims to be put into it face down, their heads through the upper pillory and their legs firmly strapped. Their torsos pressed against a spiked drum, the prisoners are then asked questions. Any sign of resistance, and the torturer then slowly rotates the drum one full revolution. This process is repeated, and torturers even go to the extent of placing weights on the backs of victims to further press their torsos towards the spiked drum and cause more pain. The result, naturally, is death by very slow disembowelment.

Rat torture

This method tortures both man and rodent, but it is man who tends to end up dying a horrifying death. A victim is completely restrained, and a full-grown rat is placed upon his or her stomach. The rat will be confined within a cage placed on top of it, which would then be heated, freaking the rat out enough to frantically burrow its way into the only way out: the victim's stomach and intestines.

and just random fyi Stalin had a hand in killing more people than Hitler did.

Actually, Japanese camps were worse for inhumane treatment. And I agree with Firefly, Cambodian camps were terrible, at least the Nazis fed their prisoners.

The Philippines were pretty bad to what with the Bataan death march and all. My grandpa survived the march, but it was still some of the worst stories my dad ever heard from him.

Yeah, Cambodia probably wins this dubious award. At least for the 20th century. I'm not too sure about other camps in the past though.

If you ask any person that went to a concentration camp, they'll tell you they'll never forget the smell of the burning bodies. The Nazis had to burn the bodies because they were running out of room for mass graves. Jews, blacks, gays, and etc. were treated so poorly in those camps. I think I read one time that the average number of kills a day succeeded 20,000.

20,000 bite the dust! A day!

yeah 20,000 a day.......thats right...........you know how the mass murdering was done

it was done in gassing rooms which were named as dinfection areas...

Yeah, that and firing squads, injections containing substances being tested by German scientists, and various other methods.

Ya know i heard the a POW, im not sure which war maybe WWII or nam, was tortured by having his guts or stomach area opened up and then his tortures would stick bamboo in his, stitch him up, put it in just the right spot so it would hurt but not kill him, and leave him for a few weeks so the bamboo would grow and sprout then they would pull it out, rinse and repeat. But im not sure if this is true

So im not sure Nazi death camp is the worst ever treatment of people but the fact that they did it to million and killed so many they makes them the worst.

I think I read one time that the average number of kills a day succeeded 20,000.

Over the 7 years (1939-1945) when the Holocaust was going on, there was an average of just over 2,300 Jewish deaths a day (about 4,600 if you include all others). That comes no where near the Rwanda Genocide (10,000 a day) or the Ukrainian Famine (25,000 a day).

I think it's safe to say, the people there didn't treat the prisoners kindly.

Oh but I'm sure they're intentions were good when they were gassing tons of Jews, oh of course. <_<

at least the Nazis fed their prisoners.