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Killing Center’s Killing centers are facilities established exclusively or primarily for the mass murder of human beings. Today they are know as death camps. They are different than concentration camps, concentration camps were used as a holding camp for all of the outcast. Death camps are used to kill all of the outcast. This is where German police murdered over 2,7000,000 Jews. The first ever death camp was named Chelmno which was opened in Warthegau (which is in a part of Poland) in December 1941. They killed mostly Jews, but also Roma (Gypsies which were people from Rome who traveled into Germany and were considered dirty). The schutzstaffel (ss) considered it to be a top secret thing, but how do you keep the murdering of millions of people secret? You can’t! Almost as soon as they started doing it, the people all over the world heard about it. The thing is, most of the people that lived in Germany followed the rules of Adolf Hitler and didn’t mind that there was millions of people being put to death. To hide all of the traces of gas operation, they had special prisoner units called the sonderkommandos. They were forced to remove the victims of the gas chamber and they will cremate them. The ground of some killing centers were made to be used as a camouflaged to hide the death of millions. …show more content…

There wouldn't be justs couple of outcast in these chambers , but hundreds of them.To the left, is a picture of what a gas chamber would look

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