Facts About The Holocaust

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The Holocaust one of the most interesting, and well-documented atrocities of recent history. There are still people that want to believe that it did not happen. They make the claim that, besides the stories told by the people that lived through it, there is no evidence that it happened. There are tons of evidence to prove that it happened.
When you talk about the Holocaust, you cannot start without discussing the apparent evidence, concentration camps. The worst of the camps was called Auschwitz. By the end of the war, Auschwitz had grown to become three central camps with about ten sub-camps that were solely designed to kill everyone that was sent there. The remains of this camp and many others are still there today despite the German army’s …show more content…

These were statistical papers, listing the number of Jews still left in Europe. These papers were delivered to many high-ranking officials in Berlin as well as diplomats and even prominent industrialists. This broad distribution suggests that the criminals felt no shame at what they did. Had these killings not been part of the Nazi Regime’s policy, the reports would never have distributed them so widely. It notes how the numbers of the Jewish population are slowly dwindling. They also had documentation of brutal experiments of the population of the concentration camps such as these stated by The Holocaust Encyclopedia “The German air force and from the German Experimental Institution for Aviation conducted high-altitude experiments, using a low-pressure chamber, to determine the maximum altitude from which crews of damaged aircraft could parachute to safety. Scientists there carried out so-called freezing experiments using prisoners to find an effective treatment for hypothermia. They also used prisoners to test various methods of making seawater potable.”

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