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How Is Technology Used In The Holocaust

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Without technology, the Nazis would have never ever been able to even pull off the Holocaust, let alone start the entire war. The Nazis use of technology in transportation, chemical use, which also lead to experimentation, heavily helped them into making the Holocaust a success. Without the usage of either technology, implementing the Holocaust would have been a tougher task. Chemical usage and experimentation has always been an extremely vague subject back during Word War !!. However, I.G. Farben's gas chamber was able to produce deadly Zyklon B Gas that was used in the gasing of Jews in concentration camp of Auschwitz. This brand new technology at the time provided the Nazis with a quick and efficient way to kill off Jews fast, as there …show more content…

Elena, an Italian partisian, had "attempted to stop freight trains loaded with people before they passed Switzerland" (Marks). However, because of the evasiveness of the Nazis in offering cigarettes to the leaders of the small groups of people to gather up these men and women, and the speed of the trains, the Nazis were particually unharmed in getting the victims in the trains to the concentration camps. As several witnesses say in Mark's essay, there were plenty of attempts by the folks in the small towns and villages to try and help the people in the trains escape or slow and stop the trains from advancing, but there was no solution to be able to stop the trains. If the trains had been stopped, the Holocaust would had not have enough people to create devastation at all, and therefore the Holocaust itself would be worthless since there would had been a lack of people participating in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a big factor in the war, and it was made possible with the usage of transportation technology. Without the trains, one of the most important technology implemented by the Nazis, the Holocaust would not have

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