How Did The Holocaust Be Allowed To Kill Jews

The Holocaust was a very hard period of time for Jews from 1933-1945. The Final Solution called for the removal of Jews and other undesirables from their homes and eventually moving them to concentration camps in big crowded cattle cars. There were really only two possible options for these prisoners which included being executed in the gas chambers. Concentration camps were a place for Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled to be held and put to work. They were brought to concentration camps because they did not meet Hitler's standards. There were many different ways prisoners were executed including being experimented on, thrown into fires, shot, and gassed.

In WW2 German physicians often conducted painful and deadly experiments on Thousands of jews. Dr. Josef Mengele, nicknamed the angel of death and the other Nazi doctors at the death camps tortured men, women and children and did medical

experiments of unspeakable horror during the Holocaust. Victims were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death. Children were exposed to experimental surgeries performed without anesthesia, transfusions of blood from one to another, isolation endurance.. The doctors made injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, removal of organs and limbs. A victim stated, “ Mengele ran a butcher shop - major surgeries were performed without anesthesia. Once, I witnessed a stomach operation - Mengele was removing pieces from the stomach, but without any anesthetic. Another time, it was a heart that was removed, again, without anesthesia. It was horrifying. Mengele was a doctor who became mad because of the power he was given. Nobody ever questioned him - why did this one die? Why did that one perish? The patients did not count. He professed to do what he did in the name of science, but it was a madness on his part ..."(Alex Dekel)The main reason they did experiments was to ensure ways of survival for German officers, doctors also conducted experiments just for curiosity. They wanted to find cures to different things such as hypothermia, disease, and how to remain in high altitudes for long periods of time. These experiments were often painful and deadly.
The term Holocaust originated from the Greek word Holokauston which means sacrifice by fire( Rosenberg, history1900s) When Nazi soldiers knew other countries military was coming they shot as many jews as possible, threw them into fires, and fled with remaining jews who could handle the fleed.

The reason German soldiers shot so many jews before taking off is because the jews were far too weak to handle the trip. Germans did not have the time to kill the jews in any other way. The Officers also did not want leave any living jews because Germans did not want them to be liberated.”When the Germans knew the war was almost over, their hatred for jews was so overwhelming that they tried killing every last jew during the last few days of the holocaust. (Pariser, pg 31) Other times prisoners were forced to dig giant holes. When done digging, prisoners were asked to step into the hole and then shot. The holes were then covered. This was not a common form of execution because it took far too much time and too many resources. The prisoners were not worth the

bullets.
Gassing was the most common form of execution. It was cheap, easy, and very effective. The Nazis had large air tight chambers where a poisonous gas was emitted into the air through openings in the roof. The camps used either Zyklon B, or carbon monoxide. Zyklon B is a gas that will suffocate you. This was often a more painful death. Carbon Monoxide was a more peaceful death. You become unconscious and died in your sleep. Gassing was a form of mass execution. A chamber could hold anywhere from 700- 800 prisoners. Upon arrival at concentration camps people were sorted into two lines.One line was of people who were going to work and the other line was to the gas chambers. Women, young children, and the elderly were the most common types of people sent to the chambers because they were unable to provide labor for the camps.
These concentration camps were not a pleasant place for any any human being. About 11 million people men, women, and children lost their lives during this horrible period of time. Nazis killed about two thirds of all living jews in Europe. The Holocaust remains, and will continue to remain as the most horrific event to happen to a single group of people.