What torturements were used in the concentration camps?

Answer 1

Joseph Stalin was the leader of Russia during World War II. He was a brutal dictator who was known for his heavy fist. He did not directly commit the torture, however, his secret police were known for carrying out his work.

Answer 2

Stalin did not personally torture anyone; however he did direct his secret police to arrest and torture people. Some methods used by the Cheka, GPU, OGPU and NKVD were:

• Beatings mostly. Stalin's credo was "Beat. Beat. And beat some more. Prisoners would be tied to a bench and the soles of their feet beaten with rubber straps
• The "swan dive" (Solzhenitsyn's term) Thick towel stuck in a prisoner's mouth then run over his back and tied to his feet bending the spine as far as it could go. The prisoner would lie on the floor like that for days without water.
• A prisoner was put naked into a small closet filled with hundreds of bedbugs that would swarm over him.
• "Cell torture." Large numbers of prisoners would be put into jail cells large enough to accommodate perhaps 10% or less that number. In one reported instance, 160 prisoners were packed into a cell built to hold 8. Prisoners would die but be packed together so tightly they could not fall down.
• Prisoners would be tied to logs and bounced down stone steps.
• Prisoners would be confined in closets, aka the "box" (Solzhenitsyn term again). Prisoners would be put into a "standing cell" so narrow that it would make it impossible to do anything but stand up for days. Some standing cells were only big enough for one person - others might be able to hold more - perhaps up to four.
• Starvation.
• Sleep deprivation.

Answer 3

In concentration camps many people such as Jews, slavs, homosexuals, and othe religious groups were starved them to death, killed them with the gas from the showers. They tortured and beat them and did horrible experiments on them that usually killed them. They burned their bodys and made people do horrible jobs ....like shoveling bodys into a furnace. One of the doctors from Auschwitz,doctor Mengal, was highly interested in twins, as he would remove large amounts of blood to see if they were the same. Or he would amputate someone's arm them amputate someone elses,they being completely awake and aware, and would switch them. or would put them in freezing temperatures to see how long they could live. Or they would be put into presure chambers until there lungs burst. Nazis would shoot children and babys right in there mothers arms, just for to do it for no reason. They had to run many miles to other camps or places and if they slowed down they were shot. At the very end of the war they started just throwing children into the furnace alive "to save on gas from the gas chambers". Much more happend that i don't know or have forgotten.

Answer 4

Stalin used mass deportations, disappearances, forced labor, and torture on a huge scale. The Soviet internal police force, the NKVD, spied on the Soviet people, and relied on citizens to report on each other or crimes, real or imagined. Political opponents were often sent to the system of labor camps known as the GULAG (the term refers to the entire system, not the individual prisons; there is no such thing as "a GULAG"), many of which were in the harsh terrain of Siberia. Citizens were routinely kidnapped and never seen again, and prisoners were tortured in the infamous Lubyanka Building, KGB headquarters, which also hosted a prison. Important political and military figures who angered Stalin were just as prone to disappearing as everyday Soviet citizens, and Stalin famously had these people literally erased from photographs. Entire ethnic groups were also targeted at times, such as the Chechnyans and the Cossacks, who were deported en masse to Central Asia.

Note that large parts of Stalin's system were dismantled after his death in 1953. The GULAG, in particular ceased operations under Khrushchev. The USSR did not become a democracy, or even a state where its citizens were safe from repression, but things did improve somewhat.

Answer 5

He gave Russia cookies.

Answer 6

torture, imprisonment and then death