The Nazis' Attempt to Eliminate All Jews in Europe from 1941 Onwards

The Nazis' Attempt to Eliminate All Jews in Europe from 1941 Onwards

From 1941 onwards the Nazis had the Einsatzgruppen and concentration

camps whose main aim was to eliminate Jews either immediately or

through hard labour, eventually in 1942 death camps where introduced

as the final solution to the Jew 'problem' and transportation systems

where organised to retrieve Jews from the ghettos.

Ghettos where first set up in Poland 1939, this was mainly because of

the large number of Jews in Poland that Hitler felt had to be

controlled and used as a work force, whilst there the average Jew in

the Warsaw ghetto had any property confiscated and would have to share

a room with 7 other people; so 21 people might live in a three bed

roomed house e.t.c. And only 1 in 100 flats had running water, with

widespread disease and hunger throughout the ghettos many people died,

in the Warsaw ghetto alone 500,000 died of starvation and typhus. The

Jews where prisoners in the ghettos only allowed out to work in nearby

factories and expected to survive on a basic ration of 300 calories a

day. Its thought that the Jews tried to continue living in the ghettos

like a community, until the day they started to be 'resettled' by the

Nazis when in actual fact they where all on there way to either a

concentration or death camp, this isn't the only way that Jews met

their death.

Countless Jews died as a result of the Einsatzgruppen, in 1941 the

German army invaded the USSR and with them they brought the

Einsatzgruppen, the einsatzgruppens task was to annihilate all Jews,

gypsies, communists, political leaders and intelligentsia. To start

off with the Jews wou...

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...slept lice would fall on them from the people

sleeping above them, many had no control of their bladder and where

only allowed to go to the toilet once a day for about five minutes and

where considered extremely lucky to actually use the toilets provided,

at any one time there were as many as three Jews to a toilet. They

were so dirty that urinating on themselves was considered washing.

After all the hardships they had been put through the Jews where

finally able to walk out of the camps… only to be sent on a death

march, where they would literally walk to their deaths.

Elimination of the Jews almost worked for the Nazis, they had almost

destroyed a whole race, through ghettos, concentration camps, death

camps general labour, starvation and death marches. Six million Jews

died, because of the Nazis discrmination.