Auschwitz as An Ideal Location For A Nazi Death Camp

Auschwitz as An Ideal Location For A Nazi Death Camp

The Auschuwitz Birkenau death camps have been given a chilling

reputation, due to the horrors that occurred during World War II.

Hundreds of thousands of Jews were slaughtered, and it was the Nazi’s

primary death camp, the main reason was possibly down to its ideal

location.

Officials met at the Wannsee conference in Berlin on the 30th of

January 1942. The conference was set up to find a ‘final solution’ to

the problem of the existence of Jew’s, this was thought to be a major

problem in Europe by the Nazi’s. An official plan was made at the

Wannsee conference, the plan being the Jews had to be totally

obliterated, however to think that the whole idea of obliterating the

Jews was composed at the Wannsee conference would simply be

officiating what was already going on, as we know this act of torture

was being exercised for many years before. When Hitler had come to

power in 1933 antagonism was shown towards Jews even during that time,

all Jewish shops were boycotted and another point to consider was

Hitler’s famous Reichstag speech in 1939, within this speech he had

declared that war would consequent to the annihilation of Jews in

Europe.

The usage and destruction of Jews was discussed at the Wannsee

Conference, they all agreed that previous methods of extermination

such as, hanging, shooting etc were not as versatile and suitable now,

they realized and figured that the methods were time consuming. Not

only were they time consuming but these methods were mentally

disturbing and upsetting the executioners. What they needed now was a

method that would wipe out a hell of a lot of Jews in a short space of

time and also which was cost efficient and cheap.

Then Zyklon B was brought up in the discussion at the Wannsee

Conference, Zyklon B was a pesticide which was used to kill rodents,

it was also used in hospitals to kill off disabled and mentally

disturbed people.