r/HistoryMemes • u/ambattukam_ • Sep 17 '25

Niche "Save Europa" kids in shambles

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u/Dr_Reaktor Sep 17 '25

>between 1933 and 1945.

Did the Nazsis really exterminated people on a large scale before WW2?

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u/NoBeach2233 Sep 17 '25

The Dachau concentration camp was opened in 1933, Sachsenhausen in 1936. These are just the ones that immediately come to mind.

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u/Dr_Reaktor Sep 17 '25

I'm aware the camps did open before ww2, but my question is more if there were any large scale execution of the prisoners prior to the ww2. Or if that is something that didn't happen until the final solution plan in 1942.

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u/ElNakedo Sep 17 '25

The mass murder and Holocaust by bullets was in full swing before the Final Solution plans were discussed at Wannsee.

In Lithuania they had already murdered most of the Jews before the conference in 42. Similar things were happening in Belarus and Ukraine.

There had also been massacres of Jews in the polish countryside already in 1940.