On September 9, 2018, the world will celebrate the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism. On this day, it is customary to remember the horrors of the fascist and Nazi regimes, as well as to affirm the readiness of modern humanity to fight their possible revival.
This memorable day is always celebrated “with tears in our eyes,” since political and nationalist persecution in the 20th century claimed the lives of millions of people. Neo-fascist movements are being revived in many countries around the world, and at the moment the fight against anti-humanist political regimes is relevant.
It’s not for nothing that many historians call the 20th century “bloody.” Many nations at this time were just beginning to realize their unity and spiritual cohesion, which led to an increase in aggression towards other states and peoples. Modern researchers believe that the growth of national self-awareness of humanity is a positive thing, but in the 21st century it should be more reasonable, taking into account the interests of other ethnic groups.
Before and during the Second World War, many countries were engulfed by fascist and Nazi political movements. Fascism became widespread in Italy, where B. Mussolini ruled, and Nazism - in Germany, where A. Hitler’s party was in power. The desire for the revival of national strength was not controlled by reason and ethical standards, and therefore numerous human casualties became victims of the revival of these peoples. Jews suffered especially hard, as they were exterminated en masse during the Holocaust.
Many Russians also became victims of Nazism. The USSR actually had nothing to do with Italian fascism, but a fierce war was fought with the Third Reich, which led to millions of casualties on both sides.
Researchers never tire of repeating that the Germans and Italians themselves should also be considered victims of fascism and Nazism. Many representatives of these nations fought underground against the brutal government, and some youth were simply fooled by loud slogans. Lack of life experience led to these young men being killed in military battles of the time.
The Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism was established in 1962
In 1962, when fascist and Nazi regimes were finally overthrown around the world, intellectuals of all countries united to say a categorical “No” to the revival of such political movements. Remembrance Day was adopted by all international organizations, including the UN and UNESCO.
This holiday became significant for residents of all states - there were no countries that did not suffer from fascism. Some states suffered significant human losses in the fight against fascism, while others suffered from their stay in power. Germany, Italy and many other states to this day are the main fighters against the revival of such political ideologies.
The organizers intended this day as a cultural event, when documentaries and other works of art dedicated to the bloody events of the last century would be shown in every country. In their opinion, as long as people remember the victims of fascism and Nazism, society is protected from its relapses.
At the beginning of the 21st century, sociologists note a revival of youth interest in fascist and nationalist movements. This forced the organizers of the holiday to promote the idea of Remembrance Day for the Victims of Fascism even more actively. This date is aimed not only at remembering the past, but also at fighting for the future.
Experts say that the fight against fascism now correlates with many other movements. For example, fascism and racism were logical offspring of each other. The stronger racist sentiments become in society, the more likely it is that aggressive and violent nationalism will resurface.
International organizations fight such ideologies every day, asserting the inviolability of personal rights, state borders and national characteristics of mentality. The fight against fascism in the modern world has become an important component of the fight against war and massacres as such.
The Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism has been celebrated in our country every year since 1962. This mournful date falls on every second Sunday in September. September is the month of the beginning and end of the most terrible, inhuman and cruel war in the entire world war. This mournful date is a reminder of those terrible days when millions of people died under shells, in concentration camps, in cities from catastrophic hunger and disease. Thousands of defenseless captives died in terrible agony as a result of monstrous “medical” experiments carried out on them by fascist “scientists”.
For adherents of the anti-human ideology of fascism, human life was worth nothing. In the dark days of that great war, the threat of slavery and total destruction hung over entire nations. Nothing worse has ever happened in the world. But having united their strength, will and desire to live, people all over the world rebelled against the fascist infection and fought this terrible evil, not sparing themselves, they fought day and night. The heroic Russian soldier, with the fraternal help of allies from different countries, at the cost of superhuman efforts and hardships, managed to defeat the army of an arrogant, ruthless and heavily armed enemy, on whose conscience were millions of dead, hundreds of destroyed cities and burned villages.
Today, to the great regret of living fighters against fascism and to the great shame of their descendants, attempts are being made to rehabilitate fascist criminals, revise the history of the Holocaust and whitewash accomplices of the inhuman fascist regime. Fascist crimes have no statute of limitations, which means that attempts to glorify fascism can and should be considered complicity in its spread. These attempts should have no place in the modern world. Humanity has paid too high a price to get rid of the brown plague. The nightmare of World War II must never be repeated, and the memory of the victims of fascism must live for centuries. All this completely depends on you and me...
Arrival of a train with new prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp (Birkenau-Auschwitz). These people were brought from the Carpathian-Rusyn region (now Ukrainian Transcarpathia and eastern Slovakia). The infamous gate to the camp can be seen in the background of the photo.
One of the emaciated prisoners at the Ebensee camp basks in the sun. The camp in Ebensee was one of the branches of the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp, organized in 1943 for the construction of an underground complex in the mountain range of the Austrian Alps
Liberated prisoners of the Ravensbrück concentration camp
Prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Their average weight in this photo is 30 kilograms
Prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp inside a barracks
A group of children liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz). In total, about 7,500 people were liberated from the camp, including children. The Germans managed to transport about 50 thousand prisoners from Auschwitz to other camps before the approach of the Red Army.
Liberated children, prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz) show camp numbers tattooed on their arms
Children behind barbed wire in the Buchenwald concentration camp after its liberation
This photograph was presented as part of evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
The girl who is second from the post on the right in the photo - Klavdia Nyuppieva - published her memories many years later.
“I remember how people fainted from the heat in the so-called bathhouse, and then they were doused with cold water. I remember the disinfection of the barracks, after which there was a noise in my ears, and many had nosebleeds, and that steam room, where all our rags were processed with great “diligence.” One day the steam room burned down, depriving many people of their last clothes.”
Liberated children from the Auschwitz concentration camp
The bodies of prisoners who died on the train on the way to the Dachau concentration camp
Prisoners of the Gardelegen concentration camp, killed by guards shortly before the liberation of the camp
A pile of corpses of prisoners in the crematorium of the Dachau concentration camp. The bodies were discovered by members of the US 7th Army
By order of the Americans, captured German soldiers removed all the corpses of prisoners from the Lambach concentration camp in Austria. They were buried in the forest near the camp
Soldiers from the American 42nd Infantry Division near the carriage with the bodies of prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp.
The corpse of a prisoner of the Leipzig-Thekla concentration camp on barbed wire. Leipzig-Thekla was a branch or "subcamp" of Buchenwald
Women from the SS guards of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp unload the corpses of prisoners for burial in a mass grave. They were attracted to this work by the allies who liberated the camp. Around the ditch is a convoy of English soldiers. Former guards are prohibited from wearing gloves as punishment to expose them to the risk of contracting typhus.
Bones of murdered prisoners of the Majdanek concentration camp (Lublin, Poland)
The most tragic memorial date in the history of Russia is September 9, the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism in the Second World War, which is celebrated every year on the second Sunday in September. This is a memory of the tens of millions of people who died as a result of the monstrous experiment of the Nazis. On September 9, we remember the soldiers, as well as civilians, who died during the fighting, as well as the millions of people who died in concentration camps from starvation or were tortured to death.
International Day of Remembrance for Victims of Fascism established
In 1962, the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism was established, which is aimed at combating the ideology of recreating fascism. It is celebrated annually on the second Sunday in September. It was no coincidence that September became the date. This month is associated with two important events that occurred in World War II. A large-scale bloody war began on September 1, 1939 with a German attack on Poland, and ended on September 2, 1945. The war engulfed almost the entire world. At that time, out of 73 states from around the world, 62 countries participated in World War II. Military operations took place on three continents and four oceans. The most tragic were the results of the war. According to historians, the total number of deaths ranges from 50 to 55 million people, and 27 million people at the front. Many countries suffered enormous human losses, especially the USSR, China, Poland, Japan and Germany. The economies of these countries were seriously destroyed.
The Nazi invaders, who dreamed of world domination, started the Second World War. Adolf Hitler became the main ideologist and leader of the Nazis, who headed the German government in 1933. His policies were based on anti-Semitism and a particular xenophobia towards Jews, expressed in negative attitudes towards them due to religious and ethnic prejudices. Adolf Hitler became head of state due to the death of the President of Germany in 1934, after which the presidency was abolished. This allowed Hitler to start the bloodiest war in the entire history of mankind and conquer other countries. Jews were subjected to mass persecution and then physical extermination as Hitler intended to completely exterminate the nation. This phenomenon began to be called the “Holocaust.” A third of the Jewish population was exterminated worldwide. A third of the Roma people, homosexuals, representatives of a religious sect, the disabled, and the mentally ill were also persecuted and physically exterminated.
Holding the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism in our days
The word "fascism" translated from Italian means a bundle, an association. The term implies a political right-wing movement led by a dictator. Most countries around the world have felt the detrimental impact of this phenomenon.
The ideology of fascism brought enormous human losses and serious destruction to both the countries that opposed it and the initiators themselves. The terrible fascist machine was stopped more than 50 years ago. Soldiers from different countries fought for victory and won. On this day, people from countries that took part in World War II visit monuments, memorials, and cemeteries. In most countries, on the International Day of Remembrance of Fascism, they tend to a mass abandoned grave. On this day, all entertainment events and celebrations are cancelled.
The Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism is perhaps the most tragic memorial date in the modern history of our country. On this day we remember all those who died due to the fault of the Nazis. At the same time, we are talking not only about soldiers and civilians who died during hostilities. As is known, millions of people died of starvation or were tortured to death in concentration camps.
In 1962, it was decided to set an international memorial date - the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Fascism. This date was set for every second Sunday in September.
It should be noted that September was not chosen by chance. After all, two extremely important dates of World War II are associated with this month. So, on September 1, 1939, this terrible bloody war began with a German attack on Poland, and on September 2, 1945, it finally ended. As is known, the Nazis invaded the territory of our country on June 22, 1941.
The Second World War
The Second World War covered almost the entire world, 62 states took part in it, and in those days there were only 73 countries in the world. Military operations took place on the territory of three continents and in the waters of four oceans. The results of the war were extremely tragic. Historians estimate that the total human losses reached 50-55 million people, of which 27 million people were killed at the fronts. Most people died in the USSR, China, Germany, Japan and Poland. The economies of these countries also suffered greatly.
Everyone knows that World War II was started by German fascists who dreamed of world domination. Nazi Adolf Hitler became their leader and main ideologist.
The word “fascism” itself comes from the Italian fascio. which can be translated as “bundle, bundle, association.” This political science term implies specific far-right political movements, their ideology, and the dictatorial-type political regimes they lead.
The harmful impact of this political phenomenon has been fully felt by a large number of countries around the world. However, fascism did not benefit any country, not even Germany itself.
Hitler
Hitler was appointed head of the German government on January 30, 1933. He began to pursue his policies, an important part of which was anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is a negative attitude towards Jews, hostility and prejudice towards them, which are based on religious or ethnic prejudices, and is a type of xenophobia.
On August 2, 1934, the President of Germany, Hindenburg, died. After this, the presidency in the country was abolished. Hitler received the powers of head of state as "Führer and Reich Chancellor". This gave him the opportunity to begin seizing the territories of other states and unleash one of the greatest wars in human history.
Hitler began mass persecution of Jews and Gypsies. They were deprived of their civil rights, and later, during World War II, their physical extermination began. In history, this phenomenon was called the “Holocaust.” Hitler intended to completely exterminate the Jewish nation. As a result, 60% of European Jews and about a third of the Jewish population of the entire world were exterminated.
In addition, about a third of the Roma people were also destroyed. Homosexuals, followers of certain religious sects, black people from Africa living in Germany, mentally ill people and disabled people were also subjected to total extermination.
German concentration camps
During the war, concentration camps were built in the territories occupied by Germany. These death camps were intended to hold prisoners of war and exterminate thousands of people. At the same time, the fascists were constantly working to improve the technology of mass extermination of people.
The Nazis also carried out inhumane medical experiments on victims of the Holocaust, which often led to death. This extermination continued until the surrender of Germany. It must be said that the Nazis viewed not only Jews, but also Poles, Russians and other Slavs as an “inferior race” that needed to be conquered. They wanted to make us slaves and then destroy us.
In 1933, the first concentration camp was established in Germany. It was built on the outskirts of the town of Dachau. Not far from Weimar, the infamous Buchenwald concentration camp was built in 1937.
Fascism
Fascism is a terrible ideology that has turned the lives of millions of people around the world into hell. There is no state that would benefit from Nazi rule. The ideology of Nazism brought collapse both to its creator and to all those who suffered from the actions of its followers.
During the war, soldiers from different countries fought together against fascism and still won, albeit at the cost of huge losses.
The International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism is usually celebrated in every country that took part in the war. All celebrations and entertainment events are cancelled. Flowers and wreaths are laid at numerous memorials and monuments, and cemeteries are visited. On this day, in many countries there is a tradition of visiting and caring for unmarked, abandoned and mass graves.
In Russia, every year on the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism, people remember all the innocent victims of fascism, and also honor the memory and merits of Russian soldiers. This date is very important for Russians, because... We must under no circumstances forget about the feat of our people. We can say that this war, one way or another, affected almost every family in our country.
Our people managed to survive five years of hunger, constant fear, uncertainty, bombings, evacuations and other horrors of war.
We managed to survive only thanks to the fortitude and heroism of Russian soldiers. They accomplished the almost impossible, because the enemy army was better equipped technically and had more advantages in military strength, supplies and uniforms.
The main goal of the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism can be called the fight against the ideology of resurgent fascism. Today, some people want to revive fascism again, having apparently forgotten what it led to last time. The slogan of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism is Unite to resist extremism.
The most tragic memorial date in the history of Russia is September 9, the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism in the Second World War, which is celebrated every year on the second Sunday in September. This is a memory of the tens of millions of people who died as a result of the monstrous experiment of the Nazis. On September 9, we remember the soldiers, as well as civilians, who died during the fighting, as well as the millions of people who died in concentration camps from starvation or were tortured to death.
International Day of Remembrance for Victims of Fascism established
In 1962, the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism was established, which is aimed at combating the ideology of recreating fascism. It is celebrated annually on the second Sunday in September. It was no coincidence that September became the date. This month is associated with two important events that occurred in World War II. A large-scale bloody war began on September 1, 1939 with a German attack on Poland, and ended on September 2, 1945. The war engulfed almost the entire world. At that time, out of 73 states from around the world, 62 countries participated in World War II. Military operations took place on three continents and four oceans. The most tragic were the results of the war. According to historians, the total number of deaths ranges from 50 to 55 million people, and 27 million people at the front. Many countries suffered enormous human losses, especially the USSR, China, Poland, Japan and Germany. The economies of these countries were seriously destroyed.
The Nazi invaders, who dreamed of world domination, started the Second World War. Adolf Hitler became the main ideologist and leader of the Nazis, who headed the German government in 1933. His policies were based on anti-Semitism and a particular xenophobia towards Jews, expressed in negative attitudes towards them due to religious and ethnic prejudices. Adolf Hitler became head of state due to the death of the President of Germany in 1934, after which the presidency was abolished. This allowed Hitler to start the bloodiest war in the entire history of mankind and conquer other countries. Jews were subjected to mass persecution and then physical extermination as Hitler intended to completely exterminate the nation. This phenomenon began to be called the “Holocaust.” A third of the Jewish population was exterminated worldwide. A third of the Roma people, homosexuals, representatives of a religious sect, the disabled, and the mentally ill were also persecuted and physically exterminated.
Holding the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism in our days
The word "fascism" translated from Italian means a bundle, an association. The term implies a political right-wing movement led by a dictator. Most countries around the world have felt the detrimental impact of this phenomenon.
The ideology of fascism brought enormous human losses and serious destruction to both the countries that opposed it and the initiators themselves. The terrible fascist machine was stopped more than 50 years ago. Soldiers from different countries fought for victory and won. On this day, people from countries that took part in World War II visit monuments, memorials, and cemeteries. In most countries, on the International Day of Remembrance of Fascism, they tend to a mass abandoned grave. On this day, all entertainment events and celebrations are cancelled.
