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[23] while Nazi killers have "invented the first gas van, which began operations in the Warthegau on January 15, 1940, under Herbert Lange". [ 24 ] During the Great Purge in the Soviet Union , NKVD officer Isaj D. Berg used a specially adapted airtight van for gassing prisoners to death on an experimental basis. [ 25 ]
In 1908, Hitler tried again, but was once again rejected. [6] Shortly afterwards, Hitler ran out of money and was forced to live in homeless shelters and men's hostels. [7] Although receiving a monthly orphan's pension of 25 kronen, this was not enough to subsist on and he found some income by clearing snow and carrying luggage for rail passengers.
Nazi ideology held entrepreneurship in high regard, and "private property was considered a precondition to developing the creativity of members of the German race in the best interest of the people." [59] The Nazi leadership believed that "private property itself provided important incentives to achieve greater cost consciousness, efficiency ...
The equipment was critical to Nazi efforts through ongoing censuses to categorize citizens of both Germany and other nations under Nazi control. The census data enabled the round-up of Jews and other targeted groups, and catalogued their movements through the machinery of the Holocaust, including internment in the concentration camps. [10]
Between 1940 and 1945, NS transported over 100.000 Jewish people, Travellers and Romani people to concentration camps in the Netherlands as ordered by the German occupier, which the German state also paid for. Many of these people were then transported onward to extermination camps. [147] Oberilizmühle Elektrizitätswerk, [148] [149] 1939 Salzweg
Once the war had begun, the foreign subsidiaries were seized and nationalized by the Nazi-controlled German state, and work conditions deteriorated, as they did throughout German industry. About 12 million forced labourers, most of whom were Eastern Europeans , were employed in the German war economy inside Nazi Germany during the war. [ 13 ]
The German–Soviet Economic Agreement of 12 October 1925 formed the contractual basis for trade relations with the Soviet Union. In addition to the normal exchange of goods, German exports to the Soviet Union from the very beginning utilized a system negotiated by the Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin by which the Soviet Union was granted credits for the financing of additional orders in Germany ...
While both Stalin and Hitler had long spoken of an over-riding necessity to prepare for war, Hitler's outlook was for an offensive war, comporting with Nazi ideology, by a new community of Germans carving an empire across Europe, slaying the "Jewish Bolshevik" dragon and addressing punitive Treaty of Versailles provisions.