Eight Little-Known Facts About the Majdanek Nazi Concentration Camp
The hidden horrors at the Majdanek Concentration Camp.
The German supervillain Heinrich Himmler was behind the creation of the Majdanek Concentration Camp. It became one of the most gruesome centers of Nazi barbarism — where both forced labor and mass murder took place, and thousands brutally lost their lives. Less known than Auschwitz and other camps, Majdanek is often forgotten in the shadows, but the savagery that occurred there cannot be.
1. Heinrich Himmler’s Economic Enterprise
Initially, a labor camp was to be constructed in Majdanek-Tatarski in Lublin, Poland — this would give the Germans a tremendous strategical advantage, mainly over parts of Poland they had occupied.
Hitler’s right-hand man, Heinrich Himmler especially traveled to Lublin in 1941 to meet with Odilo Globocnik, the notoriously loyal SS soldier in the area. The objective was a creation of a labor camp able to hold up to 50,000 inmates.
Political prisoners, Soviets, Jews, and many others who the Nazis deemed unworthy would now be torn off their homely streets and taken to begin a forced labor operation in Majdanek. Construction of the site continued throughout its existence, and by October…
