Nazis' Ways of Eliminating the Jews During the Holocaust
In 1941, America and Soviet Russia allied with Great Britain and
France to fight the Nazi forces in the Second World War. Adolf Hitler,
leader of the Nazis, knew he faced the most powerful nations in the
world and was not ready for a long conflict. They needed to destroy
the "evidence", the Jews, of the holocaust before the allied forces
closed in from the west. Up to this point, the Nazis had used slow,
stressful and inefficient methods of killing Jews and Hitler wanted a
faster way of getting rid of them. Hitler met with German Nazi
officials in a town outside of Berlin called Wansee to discuss the
solution to the Jewish problem. Before this conference, Hitler had
planned to deposit the Jews deep into Russia or on the island of
Madagascar. However, the spectacular Nazi invasion had ground to halt
in Soviet Russia and Great Britain ruled the seas, so both of these
plans were impossible.
By 1941 most Jews in occupied territory had either been killed or
forced into cramped ghettos such as the one in Warsaw. These were
sections of cities that had been closed off to keep the Jews away from
everyone else and in one place. This also made it easier for the Nazi
SS to target them for forced labour and random punishments. On 21st
September 1939, a secret conference took place in Berlin. SS General
Reinhardt Heydrich suggested that all Jews in Poland be collected and
placed into Ghettos. The first ghetto was to be found in Piotrkow on
28th October 1939 and was very successful in the views of the Nazis.
It separated Jews from Aryan citizens and also kept them in one place
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...en, women and children were killed using various methods
of mass murder. Otherwise known as genocide. As German defeat became
inevitable, Hitler's hate towards the Jews was so great that he killed
many German Soldiers swell as Jews on what were called, death marches.
These people were taken to concentration camps as the allied forces
closed in. In 1944, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz and other
eastern camps. On the western front, Allied troops liberated
concentration camps crammed with thousands of dead and dying Jews.
Some of those who had survived the Holocaust returned home only to be
murdered by local anti-Semites when they reached their old home town.
Hundreds of thousands decided to leave Europe forever, to go to
Palestine and rebuild a Jewish homeland so that they would never again
be the persecuted minority.
Jewish citizens and families are being sent to these camps, held there forced to do work. They are put in chambers where multiple people, large groups and families are gassed with Zyklon B, and are left for dead. Nazis are sent to kidnap Jewish people right out of their houses to send them to these camps. Others were also just shot and killed on the spot. The jewish people tried to resist, but it is difficult with lack of weapons and resources. Hitler was trying to gain power and land from this genocide. He thought that if he took over the world he could be the most powerful person. He also wanted revenge, he was angry about the outcome of WWI and this sparked his interest to get back at his
Poland was devastated when German forces invaded their country on September 1, 1939, marking the beginning of World War II. Still suffering from the turmoil of World War I, with Germany left in ruins, Hitler's government dreamt of an immense, new domain of "living space" in Eastern Europe; to acquire German dominance in Europe would call for war in the minds of German leaders (World War II in Europe). The Nazis believed the Germans were racially elite and found the Jews to be inferior to the German population. The Holocaust was the discrimination and the slaughter of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its associates (Introduction to the Holocaust). The Nazis instituted killing centers, also known as “extermination camps” or “death camps,” for being able to resourcefully take part in mass murder (Killing Centers: An Overview).
How did the Nazis kill so many people? This question is important because somehow the Nazis managed to kill over 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, the S.S. deployed Killing Squads which were characterized by their tactics, important dates, and their impact on the Final Solution. Killing Squads managed to find a fast killing tactic. This is a crucial part of the topic because figuring out how Killing Squads kill could show why they were able to kill so many Jews, Gypsies, and Communist leaders.
Hitler summoned all of the Jews in the German empire into ghettos in Poland until he could find another plan. Himmler, Hitler’s right hand man, proposed two plans to expel the Jews to either Lublin or Madagascar. Hitler approved both, but neither was put into effect. The Nazis’ inability to solve the Jewish question once again disappoints them. The obligation to solve the problem still weighed heavily upon them, which led to frustration, which led to the radical decisions to liquidate the Jews (Browning 81-89)....
The first Jewish prisoners entered Theresienstadt on November 24, 1941. In the beginning, when the Fuehrer first presented the city to the Jews, many came willingly to the ghetto because life as a Jew was becoming intolerable and dangerous elsewhere with the rise and spread of anti-Semitism. The Jews wanting to enter Theresienstadt merely had to sign a contract turning over all remaining assets and property to the S. S, and in return the S. S pledged to take care of them as long as they inhabited Theresienstadt.
In particular, the Germans began ghettos like this one, in order to gather and contain Jews until the “Final Solution” could be further implemented. In particular, after the Germans invaded Poland, they knew that it would be necessary to get rid of the Polish Jews, knowing that with 30% Jews, Warsaw had the 2nd greatest Jewish population. An area was needed to contain the Jews as the concentration camps would take time to build and had limited human capacity. As a result, they chose to create a closed ghetto, as it was easier for the Nazis to block off a part of a city than to build more housing for the Jews. The Germans saw the ghettos as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews while the Nazi leadership in Berlin deliberated upon options for the removal of the Jewish population. In essence, the Warsaw ghetto was a step from capturing and identifying the Jewish to deporting them to another location. So how exactly was the ghetto
method and burning the bodies after would be an easy way to get rid of
The Holocaust is one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme." (Bauer, 58) One of his main methods of exterminating these ‘undesirables' was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided to make their 'final solution' a reality. Their goal was to eliminate the Jews and the ‘unpure' from the entire population. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp that carried out Hitler's ‘final solution' in greater numbers than any other.
During the Holocaust many concentration camps were built by the Nazis for the killing and suffering of Jews. As Hitler wanted all Jews to perish off the Earth he wanted theses concentration camps were Jews can be brought in and could be killed one by one. These Jews were killed many ways inside these concentration camps and nobody even knew about it. Nobody outside knew about because it was kept a huge secret. These concentration camps were the end to on Jews’ journey in life.
Hitler became chancellor of Germany and he did not like the Jewish people so he made death camps or most commonly known as concentration camps and him and his followers killed about 5,860,129 Jewish people.The Jewish people thrived at a population of approximately 9,796,840 million before the Holocaust. After the Holocaust there about 3,936,711 left. It was a terrible time for the Jewish people.Most people were killed in death camps or concentration camps.The camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, etc. There was also Einsatzgruppe a mobile killing squads that when around and murdered Jewish people. The prisoners in concentration camps were jews, gypsies, socialists, and homosexuals. There were 20,000 of these camps built and used during the holocaust. When Hitler became chancellor and the Nazis became in charge the Sturmabteilung ,Schutzstaffel , police, and local authorities built these camps so they could incarcerate opponents. The Schutzstaffel established bigger camps in Berlin, Munich, and Saxony. In 1934 the Schutzstaffel was the only organization that could establish and manage these concentration camps. Lichtenburg was an all female camp only.
The Holocaust was a horrible time for everyone involved, but for the Jews it was the worst. The Jews no longer had names they became numbers. Also they would fight and the S.S. would watch and enjoy. They lost all personal items, then forced to look and dress the same. This was an extremely painful and agonizing process to dehumanize the Jews. Which made it easier to take control of the Jews and get rid of them.
Hitler had thought that the Jews did not believe in the “right” thing so he tried to eliminate the race. He did not want them to believe in what they did and still do. He thought that the Jewish race was inferior and did not mean anything. The way that Hitler treated the Jews were crimes against humanity and I know that many non Jews saw that but did...
...throughout Europe as they did in Auschwitz and Majdanek. These horror stories are only a few out of the hundreds of camps that the Nazis built during World War Two. The Holocaust was a devastating event for the Jewish population as well as many other minorities in Europe. The Holocaust was the largest genocide that has ever occurred. Horrific things went on in Auschwitz and Majdenek that wiped out approximately 1,378,000 people combined. This death toll is extremely high compared to smaller camps. These camps were some of the largest concentration/death camps that existed during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a tragic time where millions of people considered undesirable to the Nazis were detained, forced to work in the harshest of conditions, starved to death, or brutally murdered.“The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.” –Stephen Ambrose
In September of 1939 German soldiers defeated Poland in only two weeks. Jews were ordered to register all family members and to move to major cities. More than 10,000 Jews from the country arrived in Krakow daily. They were moved from their homes to the "Ghetto", a walled sixteen square block area, which they were only allowed to leave to go to work.
Happened over the span of about 12 years killing about 6 million people, but had about 17 million victims. Unlike the Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust was against many different groups such as Jews, Homosexuals, Jehovah’s witness, and the disabled(Rosenberg 1). The Nazis were mainly after those who were different from Germans in any way. The holocaust started after World War II, due to the fact that the Anti-Semites blamed Jews for their defeat( History Holocaust 1). Those Jews who stayed in Germany were not safe but those who left did not have to worry about being captured. (History Holocaust 1). Jews who stayed and were captured either had to comply to the wishes of the Nazis or they were either murdered or sent to camps. There were many camps placed all over Germany, and each camp had its own liability. Concentration camps forced people to work with little to no food, and were given 3 hours to sleep but were placed in crowded places. Extermination camps also known as death camps, people were killed in large groups and they were killed at a fast rate( History Holocaust 1). In either camp people were going to end up dying because in Concentration camps they were worked to death, and in Extermination camps it was automatic. Hitler ended up committing suicide and soon after German forces started evacuation death camps, and Soviet Union troops had arrived. These events made it hard for