When Adolf Hitler and the “Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” (NSDAP – Nazi Party) came to power in 1933, absolute power and control were manifested in their agendas for the German people, and all those who would live under the Fuhrer’s ruthless dictatorship. With Hitler’s ideals of a master race, any person whom the Nazis felt was either an “Untermensch” (sub-human), non-productive or an untrustworthy individual was to be used as a slave laborer for the state’s benefit, or simply put to death.
Small local jails and holding areas quickly sprang up across the country to hold the thousands of political opponents, Slavs, Jews, Gypsies, criminals, homosexuals, clergy and others rounded up by the Nazi “Sturmabteilung” (SA storm troopers), “Schutzstaffel” (SS-Hitlers black knights), German civil and secret police. As the number of…
