Killing Centers Research Paper

Killing Center’s

Killing centers are facilities established exclusively or primarily for the mass murder of human beings. Today they are know as death camps. They are different than concentration camps, concentration camps were used as a holding camp for all of the outcast. Death camps are used to kill all of the outcast. This is where German police murdered over 2,7000,000 Jews. The first ever death camp was named Chelmno which was opened in Warthegau (which is in a part of Poland) in December 1941. They killed mostly Jews, but also Roma (Gypsies which were people from Rome who traveled into Germany and were considered dirty). The schutzstaffel (ss) considered it to be a top secret thing, but how do you keep the murdering of millions of people secret? You can’t! Almost as soon as they started doing it, the people all over the world heard about it. The thing is, most of the people that lived in Germany followed the rules of Adolf Hitler and didn’t mind that there was millions of people being put to death. To hide all of the traces of gas operation, they had special prisoner units called the sonderkommandos. They were forced to remove the victims of the gas chamber and they will cremate them. The ground of some killing centers were made to be used as a camouflaged to hide the death of millions.

One way of killing in killing centers, being gassed.

There wouldn't be justs couple of outcast in these chambers , but hundreds of them.To the left, is a picture of what a gas chamber would look

like.

This is what a normal firing squad would look like. The S.S officers would all line up and start shooting in the mass crowd of victims. Death like this was very dreadful because if the man who shot you didn't kill you, they would let you sit there and bleed out.

This is what and incinerator looks like. They would make the prisoner chop up the dead and salvage parts from the dead and they would then burn them. After they turned them into ashes, they would dump them into a pond.

This is considered to be the last Jew in Vinnitsa. Sometimes they would make them get on their knees in front of a hole with more dead people in them. They would then shoot them in the back of the head and the inertia would then send them falling into the hole.

Sometimes they would just thrown their bodies in a mass grave and either let them decay. They would throw thousands of them into these pits a day. When they filled them up as much as possible, they would just throw all of the dirt in there and let them sit there.

When the people were gassed, they would make them sit there for days at a time, until they were next in line. Some people would starve to death before they got gassed.