For many, the serial number (located on the forearm) is the most unforgettable image of the Holocaust. Having come to symbolize the brutality, and dehumanization attempt of the Nazis, most of what is known about them stem from personal accounts of Jewish survivors. Initially, the main method of identifying the Jewish population was through the use badges. Reinhard Heydrich was the first to recommend that Jews be forced to wear badges following the Kristallnacht in November 1938. The German government made badges mandatory in Poland in November 1939.
Farben company's establishment of a synthetic rubber plant in 1942 at Auschwitz III (Monowitz). The incarceration of increasing numbers of people in the concentration camps assured at least the quantity of the labor supply even as the brutality of the regimen inside the camps depleted the number of available laborers. The SS used gas chambers and other means to "weed out" prisoners who were no longer able to work.
In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted
Women and Jews, although sadly for them, were sacked from their jobs and these were given to German men. All these schemes that took place had given many Germans jobs and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Now that Germany had more men helping to rearm through the large companies, it meant that rearmament could take place quicker and now that unemployment had decreased massively till 1939, that was one less problem that Nazi Germany had to worry about. The ‘Battle for Work’ scheme that was set up to reduce unemployment was successful in ways that it fell from 25.9% in 1933 to 7.4% in 1936. This was great for Germans however it did create some issues as Germany’s ‘secret rearmament’ scheme was bringing in too much imported raw materials into Germany whilst exporters were struggling due to taxes on imports and this left Germany with a big trade deficit.
And that factory would soon employ Jewish workers. The factory is located at Krakow, Germany where it’s still standing to this day. Right before the Nazis attacked Poland, Oskar moved away in 1939. Oskar took advantage of when the Germans Germanized the Jewish and Polish owned businesses, he bought a factory named “enamelware” and made the plant into the “Oskar Shindler.” Shindler owned and worked on two factories at the time, but Jews only worked at the “enamelware” factory because it was closer to the ghetto where the Jews
The residents worked 12 hour days in order to produce a range of products from textiles to weaponry; overall Ghettos provided Germany with a 2.2 million mark profit to help fight the war and Ghettos played a massive part of Germany’s success. Ghettos were not only set to help build the German empire but also to protect the German ‘superior race’ from the ‘disgusting and vile’ Jewish population who were blamed responsible for the spotted fever. A hack-Bourne disease in the skin which 92% of the reported cases were Jewish victims and due to their ‘bad habits’ they had become immune meaning 90% of
Fdsfsadf sdWHEREAS the media uses the historically erroneous terms "Polish concentration camp" and "Polish death camp" to describe Auschwitz and other Nazi extermination camps built by the Germans during World War II, which confuses impressionable and undereducated readers, leading them to believe that the Holocaust was executed by Poland, rather than Nazi Germany, WHEREAS these phrases are Holocaust revisionism that desecrate the memories of six million Jews from 27 countries who were murdered by Nazi Germany, WHEREAS Poland was the first country invaded by Germany, and the only country whose citizens suffered the death penalty for rescuing Jews, yet never surrendered during six years of German occupation, even though one-sixth of its population was killed in the war, approximately half of which was Christian,
In the labor camps you either worked on mines or created ammunition for the German army. “We spent the rest of the war from May 1943 to January 1945 in the HASAG slave labor camp making ammunition for the German army. There were 4,000 Jews working at this factory. I was lucky: my job was to be a tailor working for the German officers. My wife's job was to carry boxes of ammunition to the trucks.
Health IV. Final Solution a. Mass Deportation b. Labor Camps c. Extermination Camps V. Survivors a. Relocation b. Remembering VI. Conclusion The Warsaw Ghetto As the World War II began, the Nazis invaded Poland in September of 1939.
Auschwitz Gas Chamber. Judaism. Retrieved August 26, 2010, from http://judaism.about.com/od/holocaust/ss/ausch_tour_5.htm This page gives a brief description about the gas chambers used in The Holocaust. How they tricked the Jews into the chambers and what type of gas they used to kill the captives. In my paper I talk about the camps and different methods used to kill the prisoners.