{"id":28796,"date":"2015-10-15T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=28796"},"modified":"2015-10-15T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T06:54:11","slug":"28796","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=28796","title":{"rendered":"History of Hitler&#8217;s FIRST death camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/m-online.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"25%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3266090\/Revealed-dark-history-Hitler-s-death-camp-Nazis-murdered-psychiatric-patients-nurses-test-gas-chambers-used-mass-extermination-Jews.html?ito=social-facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Revealed, the dark history of Hitler&#8217;s FIRST death camp: How Nazis murdered psychiatric patients &#8211; and their nurses &#8211; to test out gas chambers before they were used for mass extermination of the Jews\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By:<strong> Ed Wight In Poznan, Poland<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Nazis began experimenting with lethal gas in Poznan, west Poland, in 1939<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>They used gas chambers to kill millions of Jewish people three years later<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>SS abducted psychiatric patients and took them to the concentration camp<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>They had killed more than 5,000 patients, hundreds of Poles there by 1940<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Behind these gates emblazoned with the symbol of Hitler&#8217;s dreaded SS, lies one of the lesser known horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland &#8211; the first use of gas chambers for mass extermination.\u00a0Seized by the SS on October 10 1939, the 19th century Fort Colomb in the city of Poznan in west Poland was renamed Konzentrationslager Posen (Concentration Camp Poznan). But rather than serving as a holding space for prisoners of the Reich, what followed was the systematic murder of psychiatric patients, local resistance fighters, academics, the intelligentsia and anyone seen by the Nazis as a threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It wouldn&#8217;t be until three years later that the use of gas chambers to eliminate the Jewish population became a Third Reich policy.\u00a0But 76 years ago this month, it was decided that Fort VII, as it is known, would be the first place to experiment with gas in the mass killing of civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2015\/10\/12\/08\/2D4D51D500000578-3266090-Villanous_An_SS_guard_opens_the_door_to_the_notorious_Concentrat-a-33_1444635658696.jpg\" alt=\"Villanous: An SS guard opens the door to the notorious Concentration Camp Poznan where thousands of psychiatric patients were gassed to death as Nazis experimented with lethal gases used to eventually kill six million Jews across Europe\" width=\"90%\" \/><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Villanous: An SS guard opens the door to the notorious Concentration Camp Poznan where thousands of psychiatric patients were gassed to death as Nazis experimented with lethal gases used to eventually kill six million Jews across Europe<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b231d39b59cca99a\" class=\"blkBorder img-share aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2015\/10\/12\/08\/2D39EDC100000578-3266090-image-m-34_1444635663253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90%\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Cursed place: The SS abducted patients from a psychiatric hospital (pictured) in the nearby town of Owinska and took them to the concentration camp in Poznan to be gassed<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2015\/10\/09\/13\/2D39ED8700000578-3266090-image-a-50_1444393887296.jpg\" alt=\"Haunting legacy: The Nazis seized this 19th Century fort and renamed it the Konzentrationslager Posen - or Concentration Camp Poznan - in 1939, three years before they used gas chambers to kill millions of Jews\" width=\"90%\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Haunting legacy: The Nazis seized this 19th Century fort and renamed it the Konzentrationslager Posen &#8211; or Concentration Camp Poznan &#8211; in 1939, three years before they used gas chambers to kill millions of Jews.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Read More: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3266090\/Revealed-dark-history-Hitler-s-death-camp-Nazis-murdered-psychiatric-patients-nurses-test-gas-chambers-used-mass-extermination-Jews.html?ito=social-facebook\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;the dark history of Hitler&#8217;s FIRST death camp&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080; 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