During the Holocaust the Nazis had ____ the killing of 6 million Jews. They believed in creating a so called master race called the Aryan race, this meant everyone being predominantly of German or other European race. Also purely because of Anti-Semitism which was the Hatred and prejudice that led Nazis into killing Jews.
These methods of extermination were used for the killings of 6 million Jews as well as other ‘inferior’ races, people with disabilities or homosexuals, during the Holocaust in 1933 to 1945. Here are some examples of methods of extermination.
Mass shootings were one form off extermination that happened during the Holocaust. Jews would be captured or arrested, then forced to dig their own graves or a mass grave, they would then be shot so their bodies would fall
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The prisoners would have to sleep on hard wooden or brick barracks. These would be filled with up to 700 other men and women . They also carried some diseases as they were very unsanitary. The prisoners would also only get a small amount to eat each day. As they lacked nutrition it often led to death.
The Third Reich as part of a public euthanasia program used gas chambers in the 1930s and 1940s. Six gas chambers were placed for this euthanasia program in Bernburg, Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hadamar, Harthein and Sonnenstein. The preferred gas was carbon monoxide, contained in metal cylinders. Most chambers would be destroyed or dismantled when soviet troops would get close.
Mobile killing squads would act swiftly, and would take the Jewish population by surprise. They would enter a town a round up all Jewish civilians wether they were women, men or children. They were forced to give up any valuables and then made to take all their clothes off, which was later used for Germany or distributed to local collaborators. The victims would then be led out to an open field or forest before being shot and put into a mass
The living conditions in the camp were rough. The prisoners were living in an overcrowded pit where they were starved. Many people in the camp contracted diseases like typhus and scarlet fever. Commonly, the prisoners were beaten or mistreated by
The Nazis also gassed Jews in other extermination camps in Poland: Auschwitz. Berkenau (the largest of all camps), Majdanek and Chelmno. At Majdanek, groups of Jews who were considered incapable of doing the work required were gassed. In Chelmno all of the Jews were gassed in.
Nearly all of the deportees who were sent to the centers were instantaneously guided to the gas chambers to die, except for a select few who were chosen to be sonderkommandos. Over two million Jews were murdered inside killing centers either by smothering with poison gas or by shooting with guns (Killing Centers ). The gas-van was a product of the Third Reich; it consisted of a van with a gas-tight cabin attached on its understructure used to kill victims by the motor-exhausts led into that cabin (The Development of the Gas-Van in the Murdering of the Jews). The Germans executed over 150,000 people at Chelmno between December 1941 and March 1943 and then again in June and July 1944 by means of gassing vans (Killing Centers ). The Germans also found the use of gas chambers to be more effective and usually killed thousands of people daily. Within minutes of being inside a gas chamber, pris...
The Jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks. There everyone was ordered to get out. They were forced to dig huge trenches. Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and off their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns (Wiesel 10).
Killing Squads managed to find a fast killing tactic. This is a crucial part of the topic because figuring out how Killing Squads kill could show why they were able to kill so many Jews, Gypsies, and Communist leaders. Killing Squad were also called death squads,mobile killing units, and Einsatzgruppen. The killing squads were often made of the German S.S and police personnel (USHMM). This means that the killing squads did have some military experience. Killing Squads act swiftly,usually tanking the Jewish population by surprise (USHMM). This is also why they were called mobile killing units. Killing Squads would enter towns and gather the people, usually in vast open areas. Open areas are easier to dig the mass graves that the dead would be put it. After victims gave their valuables to the killing squad and undressed, they were gassed in vans, shot it trenches, or shot in prepared pits (USHMM).People gassed in vans were killed by the carbon monoxide produced by the van because the exhaust pipes were blocked. These research findings reveal the harsh tactics of killing squads. The squads don't care how the Jews died, as long as it was cheap.
In 1943 or as you may know it as The Holocaust, there were many different ways they executed the people at the Auschwitz camp, including hanging, shooting their heads or even letting them starve to death. But I'm not going to talk about them. This may tickle your fancy or wreck with your emotions after seeing the movie. I'm going to be talking about the Gas Chamber. The Gas Chamber is probably the worst place to be EVER, because you're going to be standing in a grey metal room ,butt naked surrounded by hundreds, even thousands of other people. Everyone is crammed inside the room as Cyclone B (a highly used deadly mixture) was sprayed into the room, causing you to either burn to death, or have to sit around dying slowly over an amount of days
As the Ghettos (in Poland) were quickly filling in occupants, the Nazi Party started ‘Mobile Killing Squads’, which traveled from one neighborhood to another ripping Jews from their home and killing (using gas vans or guns) them in the street. But, this method proved inefficient with the number of Jewish People who ran, and the number of killers that were being affected by the gases. This then caused the anti-Semitic party to start sending Jews to the six extermination camps throughout Poland. Which according to Paul B. Kern was all a part of the Final Solution.
“A typical concentration camp consisted of barracks that were secured from escape by barbed wire, watchtowers and guards. The inmates usually lived in overcrowded barracks and slept in bunk “beds”. In the forced labour camps, for
The Nazis began to force Jews into designated areas known as ghettos. These ghettos were not just a place for the Jewish population to stay, but used as a starting point from which the Jews were then placed into concentration and death camps. When placed in these camps, many were killed immediately upon entering the camps by the gas chambers, ovens, or bullets. Some didn’t even make it to the camps, but were shot and dumped into mass graves by the German mobile killing squad called the Einsatzgruppen. Sadly, many of those sent ...
The Holocaust, the mass killing of the Jewish people in Europe, is the largest genocide in history to date. Over the course of the Holocaust, nearly six million Jewish people were killed by the Nazi Party and Germany, led by Adolf Hitler. There are multiple contributing factors to the Holocaust that made it so large in scope. Historians argue which of these factors were most significant. The most significant contributing factor is the source of the Holocaust, the reason it occurred.
The Holocaust was the mass murders that Nazis were applying to the world and the killings that started by using guns. When Hitler found the shooting of people to inhumane for soldiers to handle he found a way that he thought was more humane for soldiers by using gas chambers and crematoriums. This also made it bet...
Soon after Germany separated from Austria in March 1938, the Nazi soldiers arrested and imprisoned Jews in concentration camps all over Germany. Only eight months after annexation, the violent anti-jew Kristallnacht , also known as Night of the Broken Glass, pogroms took place. The Nazi soldiers arrested masses of male adult Jews and held them captive in camps for short periods of time. A death camp is a concentration camp designed with the intention of mass murder, using strategies such as gas chambers. Six death concentration camps exis...
Prisoners were made to live in small barracks filled over capacity with hundreds of people. Bunks were made from wood and only sometimes straw, but nothing else. In times of crowding there would be three or four to a bunk. Such close proximity meant that the bunks grew incredibly dirty and infested with lice or other pests. More threatening, though, was the fact that any illness would spread rapidly, and without adequate medical care prisoners died in large numbers from diseases such as
The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The total amount of people murdered during this time was 11 million, with six million of those being Jews. Not only were adults murdered but approximately 1.5 million children were murdered as well. The destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities also occurred during this time. The word “Holocaust” comes from the Greek origin meaning, “sacrifice by fire”. Another word for this mass murder of six million Jews is “Shoah”. “Shoah” means devastation, ruin, or waste. The Nazis who led this persecution came to power in Germany in January of 1933. The Nazis saw the Jews as evil or cowardly and saw the Germans as hardworking, honest, and courageous. The Germans were destined to rule and the Jews were doomed to extinction. Not only were the Jews a target but Gypsies, the disabled, and some of the Slavic people were as well. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and it ended in 1945 when the Allies defeated the Nazis.
The Nazi’s perpetrated many horrors during the Holocaust. They enacted many cruel laws. They brainwashed millions into foolishly following them and believing their every word using deceitful propaganda tactics. They forced many to suffer doing embarrassing jobs and to live in crowded ghettos. They created mobile killing squads to exterminate their enemies.