November 30, 1942

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Martin Antonenko

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Order to starvation!


On November 30, 1942, the Bavarian Minister of State for the Interior, SA Obergruppenführer Paul Giesler...



... sends the so-called "decree to death from hunger" to all managements of psychiatric institutions in Bavaria.

The decree orders that inmates who are able to work must be better fed immediately at the expense of the others (unable to work)...:



As a result, the decree means that inmates who are unable to work are deliberately given up to starvation, which is what is wanted and also happens!

Giesler was a fanatical Nazi whom Hitler thought so highly of...



...that in his political testament on April 29, 1945, he appointed him as the new Reich Minister of the Interior, succeeding SS Chief Himmler...:

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In 1943, Giesler had caused a nationwide scandal by appearing in a completely inebriated state at the University of Munich:

During a speech he mobbed female students and accused them of "hanging around". Instead, they should "give the Führer a child", and he would be happy to send his adjutants to them for the purpose. The picture shows him leaving the scandal event...:



There were tumultuous protests - unique in the Nazi era! The drunk was pushed out of the room by students. Among the protesting students were Hans and Sophie Scholl, who were later executed as resistance fighters.

Protesting students were arrested afterwards - but the Scholl siblings managed to escape that day.

After the arrest of the members of the "White Rose" resistance group founded by the Scholl siblings, Giesler advocated particular harshness and demanded that their executions should be publicly carried out.

Giesler committed crimes until the last days of the "Third Reich": A few hours and days before US troops invaded...



... more than 100 opponents of the regime were murdered on Giesler's orders...:





The senior Nazi wrote in a public appeal:

“Hate must have free rein. Our hateful spirit must meet the enemy like a scorching ember."

On May 1, 1945, Giesler and his wife and mother-in-law attempted suicide near Berchtesgaden using sleeping pills, but failed.

The following day, Giesler first shot his wife and then himself in the head in a wooded area near Lake Hintersee. Seriously wounded by a shot in the head, Giesler was found and taken to a hospital in the Stanggaß district of Bischofswiese, near Berchtesgaden, where he died a few days later.

Too bad the Allies couldn't hang him...
 
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