Nazi crime

Nazi crime or Hitlerite crime (Polish: Zbrodnia nazistowska or zbrodnia hitlerowska) is a legal concept used in the Polish legal system, referring to an action which was carried out, inspired, or tolerated by public functionaries of Nazi Germany (1933–1945) that is also classified as a crime against humanity (in particular, genocide) or other persecutions of people due to their membership in a particular national, political, social, ethnic or religious group.

Millions of non-Polish Holocaust victims and Soviet prisoners of war were also subjected to Nazi atrocities after being brought to Poland.

In Ukraine, an estimated 400,000 Jewish people were killed in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.

The Nazis took away all of the Jews' possessions and incomes in order to make it harder for the Jewish people to live elsewhere before the onset of the Holocaust.

[12] "Most of those who entered the Nazi camp system, whether gay, Jewish, Roma, or Sinti, or black did not survive".

[13] Following the conclusion of World War II, Nazis were charged with crimes in many different court hearings.

[17] Along with these criteria, "lust for killing and sadism" were also needed in order to ensure successful prosecutions.

When charging a person who was assumed to be responsible for murder, a common question the courts asked the accused was whether excessive cruelty and the maltreatment of prisoners led to their deaths.