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Execution of Hans Möser - Bestial Nazi Guard at Hinzert & Mittelbau Dora Concentration Camps. The 6th of June 1944. Allied infantry and armored divisions begin landing on the Normandy coast in France. This largest seaborne invasion in history marks a turning point in World War 2 and becomes the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. One week later on the 13th of June 1944, Nazi Germany responds with the first V-1 flying bomb attack carried out on London. More than 2,500 V-1s will reach London killing more than 6,000 innocent civilians. The first V-2 rocket, the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile, hits London on the 8th of September 1944.
These terrifying Revenge weapons with which the Nazis would terrorize people in London until March 1945 are produced thanks to slave labor from Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. The second most powerful man in this camp is Hans Möser.
In May 1943 he was posted to Auschwitz III also known as Monowitz or Monowitz-Buna which was a sub-camp and from November 1943 a concentration camp to which all the “industrial” sub-camps in the Auschwitz complex were subordinated. The toughest work for prisoners was for those employed in the transfer of construction materials, earthworks, transport of narrow-gauge railway wagons filled with earth and the laying of power cables. The Kommandos, whose working conditions were less exhausting, were for those prisoners who worked as carpenters, roofers, painters and electricians.
As a result of hard labor, insufficient food, and in the winter because of insufficient clothing and the poor state of their shoes, the strength of Monowitz prisoners dropped rapidly and they fell ill. The weak and sick were sent to the camp hospital, where every two or three weeks the camp doctor carried out selections and those in worse physical condition were sent to Auschwitz- Birkenau, where most underwent re-selection and ended up in the gas chambers.
The basic sentences for various offenses recorded by the SS were: from 4 to 10 nights in a standing cell in which one could not lie down but only stand, penal labour for 10 consecutive Sundays or exercises and flogging with sticks.
In total, 1,670 prisoners were murdered at the building site or died in the sub-camp hospital, and 11,000 were sent to Auschwitz Birkenau, where the majority of them were killed with a lethal injection of phenol or in the gas chambers.
On May 1, 1944, Hans Möser was transferred to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp located in central Germany.
The camp served as a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp until it became independent in 1944.
The slave-laborers from Mittelbau-Dora were used not only for the production of V-weapons such as the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rockets which were aimed primarily at London, but also to extend the nearby tunnels in Kohnstein which is a hill that served as a natural protection against the Allied bombing for the underground factory named Mittelwerk in which the V-weapons were produced. These so-called Weapons of Retaliation, as the Germans called them, were constructed and stored in the underground facilities and bomb-proof shafts.
The inmates at Mittelbau-Dora were treated in a brutal and inhumane manner, working 14-hour days and being denied access to basic hygiene, beds, and adequate rations.
Prisoners too weak or ill to work were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau or Mauthausen to be killed.
The inmates were subject to extreme cruelty and as a result, they often suffered injuries, including permanent disability, disfigurement, and death. Severe beatings were routine, as was deliberate starvation, torture and summary executions. In many cases the prisoners were compelled to hang other prisoners under penalty of execution if they failed to cooperate. The death toll at Mittelbau-Dora was high, with estimates suggesting that around 20,000 prisoners died as a result of the camp's conditions, including malnutrition, exhaustion, and disease....
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