In the beginning of the Holocaust, many people were sent to labor camps but died of infections or from working so much. There were about six large concentration camps that were used to kill the Jews upon entry into the camp. The Jews that weren’t immediately sent to concentration camps lived in Ghettos until they were sent to the extermination camps. Living in ghettos was terrible, considering the size of the area was condensed and many families had to live in one house together. Gas chambers were invented as a way to kill Jews and others quickly.
There were so many crematoriums during World War II that the Nazis had developed. The Jews were placed in the crematoriums as a way of disposing them. During the holocaust, there were many gruesome types of deaths that the Nazis inflicted upon the Jews. The most common course of action the Nazi Officers took exterminating the Jewish people were the process of using a poisonous gas (Danish page 2). The Nazis used a type of gas labeled Zyklon B.
“Children mourned as they watched their relatives and neighbors lined up into thee gas chambers, and watching the corpses pile up into a fire fueled by their own fat.” This is the daily life of the prisoners in the death camps during the Holocaust from 1933 – 1945. For the first time in history Jews were singled out for total annihilation. The Nazis used death camps to torture and kill Jews during the Holocaust. Jews suffered greatly in death camps by gas chambers, starvation, and hard labor. Although there seemed like no way out of death camps, a few rebellions took place in some famous death camps.
The Holocaust was one of the worst events to ever happen to mankind. It was started by the Fuhrer of Germany, Adolf Hitler, who thought that the Aryan race was superior to every other race. He had a massive hatred for the Jewish race and decided to try and exterminate every living Jewish person. He killed around two-thirds of all the European Jews (Byers 10). World War II was going on at the same time as the Holocaust.
In what ways did the Nazis treatment of Jews change between 1938 and 1945? The Jews were violated throughout the Second World War and the intensity of the violence elevated as the war progressed. In 1938 Kristallnacht took place where German citizens including the SS and the Hitler youth boycotted Jewish shops and businesses due to an assassination of a German politician by a French student . This was persecution of the Jews as many of them were removed from everyday life either by being sent to a concentration camp , 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps on that night, or by having property and businesses vandalised and destroyed which left them with nothing. Also more persecution happened the next day as Jewish communities were asked to pay $1 million marks in reparations to what took place on that night .
These doctors were in a no-win situation because Hitler was ordering all people that fell in a certain category to be executed or become one of the Guinea pigs for the experiments. Hitler’s government was in control of the notorious acts committed by these doctors. The doctors could have said “NO” but they ran a risk of being killed or lose their privileges to practice. Many psychiatrists did not have the courage to openly oppose to the so-called, medical- killing project. So the question is, “Can this Science be considered GOOD Science?” The answer is yes, because to rule out the data collected and act as if it didn’t exist would be unethical because it offers authenticity of the experiments performed.
Over the period of years that would be known as the Holocaust in which the Nazis persecuted and killed the Jews trying to annihilate them from the face of the earth, the Jews took to fleeing the country and hiding whenever possible. While most of the Jews stayed in German occupied territory for reasons such as they just couldn’t get out of the country, to them thinking it wasn’t as brutal as it actually was or that it wouldn’t last as long as it did, the Jews that stayed had to hide whenever possible to avoid being executed and/or placed in ghettos and concentration camps. The Jews have a lot of non-Jews to thank by means of their being able to hide out; fore it was illegal for any non-Jew to harbor a Jew. They took to hiding in attics and
Between April 18 and April 28, the dead were buried. At first the SS guards were made to collect and bury the bodies, but eventually the British had to resort to bulldozers to push the thousands of bodies into mass graves because they were too many. After evacuating Bergen-Belsen, British forces burned down the whole camp to prevent the spread of typhus. Judy Rosenzweig prisoner of Bergen Belsen describes the liberation: "All of a sudden out of the blue sky we saw tanks rolling into the camp…We had no idea what kind of tanks they were. Is it the Americans?
Third, wherever Germany in Eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen were created to murder Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Finally, Jews and Romani were ordered to be live in overcrowded ghettos, there they were then transported by freight train to extermination camps. Extermination camps were camps that were built by Nazi Germany, during the World War II, that were designed to kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under terrible living conditions. The Nazis were not alone in this effort. Parish churches and the Interior Ministry supported the genocide by presenting birth records showing who was Jewish; the Post Office delivered the deportation and denaturalization orders; the Finance Ministry took away Jewish property; German businesses fired Jewish workers and took away stock that belonged to the Jews.
The Holocaust The Holocaust was an attempt during World War II for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis party to eliminate anyone not of purity. This was a time when many people lost their lives at the hands of a heartless, worthless individual. There was no reason for the deaths of many other than the selfishness of one man and his followers. Millions of Jewish, Gypsies, Russians and prisoners of war died due to the hands of Adolf Hitler as his part of the Final Solution plan also known as the years of the Holocaust. Before we discuss the history and occurrences of the Holocaust you need to know what the definition and meaning of Holocaust is.