Honors English 9 (1) 30 March 2011 Schutzstaffel: the Bad, the Worse, and the Heinous Unambiguously the most terrible group of torturers to ever exist, the Schutzstaffel, more commonly known as the SS, were the leaders of the infamous Holocaust. The SS was an exceptionally methodical group, working rhythmically and brilliantly and nearly never failing to accomplish what they wanted to, when they wanted to. Hitler originally raised the organization as a group of elite personal bodyguards, and they remained as so until Heinrich Himmler was chosen as their leader by Hitler himself (USHMM: SS and the Camp System). The SS quickly evolved into the egregious coalition known to so many today. They orchestrated the majority of the Holocaust; the solution to the “Jewish question” as it was called by German forces (USHMM: SS and the Holocaust).
Doctors would take corpses hair and gold teeth once they were out of the chambers. It was made clear in the document that this was just another day at the camp. Thesis: Both authors seemed to have a very similar approach to what they thought about the holocaust; it was extremely disturbing. Both authors do a great job at painting a clear picture about how terrible the German’s treated the Jewish people in concentration camps. The Doctors tells a specific terrifying story about how every day life was for people living in concentration camps.
Adolf Eichmann was head of Jewish affairs, and was responsible for the deportation of nearly 1.5 million Jews to death camps located across all of Europe. Similar to Mengele, Eichmann fled to Argentina after World War II to escape war crimes that he had committed. After he was found guilt for the cause of several casualties, he was hung and cremated. "Holocaust Encyclopedia." Auschwitz .
“The mother was beaten to death. She has dozens of broken bones, a fractured skull, and as you can see, she is not recognizable at all.” The detective was shocked by the brutality of the beating, “Jesus Christ!” he exclaimed. “What about the rest?” “Jim, the father. He was slightly starved, but the cause of death is dehydration.” “It’s like he just neglected him completely… left the bastard to die while killing the rest of ‘em.” The coroner moved to the next set of corpses. They stank and made the air smell rotten.
The conditions at these camps were beyond comprehension. People were not given enough food, given hard wooden beds to sleep on, and treated very unkindly. Many unethical medical experiments were also conducted on adults and children against their will. The concentration camps were designed for hard labor and those living there often died of starvation. The extermination camps were specifically set up to perform mass murders.
In 1943, the Nazis decided to force the occupants into back-breaking labor. The Nazis made the prisoners make arms and supplies for the war. At this camp, they performed brutal medical experiments on the prisoners. Over 3,500 people had experiments performed on them and most all died. When the war was coming to an end, the United States liberated over 32,000 prisoners on April 29, 1945.
Cohn died at the age of 60 on October 1, 1953, in Boston. EARLY LIFE Edwin Joseph Cohn was born in New York City on December 17, 1892, the youngest of four children. His father was a successful tobacco merchant, which allowed Cohn to grow up in comfort. Cohn attended Amherst College, but transferred to the University of Chicago when he decided to pursue a scientific career. EARLY SCIENTIFIC CAREER After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, Cohn went on to receive his Ph.D. from the university in 1917.
There he would perform torturous procedures, mostly resulting in death. “Dr. Menegele had always been more interest in him…one surgery on his spine left him paralyzed…They took out his sexual organs. After the fourth operation, I did not see him anymore” (Auschwitz). Menegele also attempted to change the kids’ eye color by injecting chemicals into their eyes.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Preceding World War II, the Nazi party in Germany rose to power and, under Adolf Hitler, committed the largest genocide the world has ever seen: the Holocaust. The ideology of the Nazi party led to the discrimination and extremely harsh persecution of the Jewish people, as well as many others who did not seem fit for the perfect German race. Jews, as well as the handicapped, homosexual, disabled, and so on, were sent to concentration camps where they were forced to perform manual labor and then killed. However, before the Nazis sent the Jews to concentration camps, they set up ghettos throughout German-controlled territory in Europe. The largest of these ghettos was the Warsaw Ghetto, located in Poland.
From 1941 through 1945 a total of some 3.5 million Jews were killed in Nazi extermination camps. These death camps had the single goal of eliminating the Jews while hiding these crimes from the rest of the world. Unlike the concentration camps of the same time, Jews were forced and ordered to do labor for the Germans and still often killed. The death camps were made solely for the mass killings of prisoners. There was no discrimination.