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Adolf Hitler's Extermination Camps During World War II

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Hitler’s Extermination Camps World War II was a terrible time for everyone. Adolf Hitler, from Germany, gathered his warriors and started terrorizing the rest of the world. There were two sides in the war; the Axis powers and the Allies. The three main Axis powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan while the three main Allies were the U.S., Britain, and France. People were being tortured a lot during this war. One of the worst punishments was the extermination camps. People were usually sent to extermination camps if they were hiding Jews of if they did anything else disrespectful to the Germans. When they arrived at these camps, they were assigned to a barracks. The barracks were only supposed to fit three or four people, but the leaders crammed eight or nine people in there. There were three mattresses stacked like bunk-beds. All of the mattresses tended to have fleas or lice on them. The leaders of the camp only gave each barracks a few blankets so, the people would have …show more content…

Both sides had an enormous amount of deaths. I will now talk about the woman side. When they were extremely bad in the eyes of the Germans, they were taken to a private place to be killed by an assortment of various procedures, including being shot to death. Most of the ones who did the usual things were taken into a gas chamber. The people were accompanied by guards to the chambers, where they had to get completely undressed. Mothers hid their small infants under the pile of clothes, but the guards tried to convince everyone that nothing bad was going to happen at all. Once, a mother screamed and a guard immediately escorted her outside to execute her. When all of the women were undressed, the guards sent them into the stalls and quickly left the room to avoid breathing in the toxins. The gas that was used was primarily carbon monoxide. The most deaths probably happened as a result of the gas chambers as so many people were sent

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