How Did Hitler Contribute To The Destruction Of Poland

On the onset of World War II, in 1939, began Poland’s great devastation and destruction. When the German military invaded Poland, under the command of pitiless Adolph Hitler, on September 1, 1939, Poland suffered from beginning to end. Polish people were now under the control of a fascist regime. Consequently, war stricken Poland was under Nazi control from 1939-1945.

Adolph Hitler became a powerful, cruel leader of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers’ Party), Head of State, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, guiding light of Germany’s Third Rich (Nazi regime period from 1933-1945) and dictator of Germany in August 1934 when President Paul von Hindenburg died in Ogrodzieniec, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland .

“The Nazis also mobilized support from among the civil service elite by making good on electoral promises to tear up the Versailles Treaty, restore Germany to the ranks of the Great Powers, bring the nation out of the depression, take back the streets from criminals and subversives, crush the communist threat, destroy the Marxist ideology, and open career opportunities for young professionals (ushmm.com).” In addition, he was ruthless and aggressive and exiled those who did not agree with his beliefs. Germans were desperate for change and most believed Hitler’s racist ideas that made them a superior race over their

Prisoners were forced to build roads, tunnels, and power plants, manufacture armament and mine for granite in quarries. This was a lucrative business for Germany. Prisoners in concentration camps were forced to work eleven hours a day, 6 days a week, with little food for nourishment. The prisoners weighed between 60 and 90 pounds, and were expected to carry heavy loads including huge slabs of stone. Hence, if someone was too slow in their job they were thrown from a 12-story building to their death. This was the “cheap” way to kill. In addition, if someone were too exhausted to do the work, Nazi soldiers would shoot him or her or beat him or her to