This is What it's like to work as an executioner We are in luck. The history saved quite a bit of stories about Stalin’s executioners. Who were these people? The chief executioner of the Lubyanka, Vasily Blokhin, personally shot more than ten thousand people . (by other sources 50,000) The name of the chief executioner of the Stalin era is widely known today. His signature affixed a huge number of acts stored in the archives of the Lubyanka on the execution of death sentences. People who were not privy to the intricacies of Blokhin's butcher's craft had to experience shock and awe when they happened to see him in action. One of the rare testimonies was left by the head of the UNKVD for the Kalinin region, Dmitry Tokarev. He spoke about the arrival in Kalinin in the spring of 1940 of a group of high-ranking NKVD officers, led by Blokhin to execute the Polish (interned) officers, held in the Ostashkov camp. When everything was ready for the first execution, Blokhin, as Tokar...
How common were instances of sexual abuse in Nazi concentration camps. The accounts that rap£ or prostitution was common, Were the guards were given "free reign" over the prisoners given view of them as subhuman The Nazis sort of developed a network of state-controlled brothels during the war. This included both the civilian and military brothels. The Nazis even set up brothels for the forced labor inmates that helped with the German war effort as incentives for higher production from prisoners in camps. Back then these brothels were suppose to serving several needs. For the soldiers that were far away from home, the Nazis thought that having these brothels would reduce the possibility of rape in occupied lands and reducing the sexual relations with impure local women or forced laborer's, as well. Heck, the Nazis tried to use these brothel women to cure homosexuality as a treatment with male prisoners that were gay. Regular German women were exempt from serving in these b...