Operation Reinhard Holocaust

Resistance in the mist of WWII and the Holocaust occurred all across Europe and the occupied territories of Nazi Germany. The three groups I’m going to discuss are Zegota, White Rose, and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Each one of these came from three very different areas, but they each resisted Nazi ideology. Each group has their own reason for why they decided to take a stand, whether morally, politically, or religious reasons and while there are differences between the groups many of them have overlapping reasons for their desire to resist.

They were standing soldiers who could be seen patrolling towns and houses, checking to see if there was anyone hiding who was supposed to be in a concentration camp. Like the well known Anne Frank, many Jewish residence would turn to family and friends to hide them, in turn, putting themselves in danger. However, if they were caught hiding illegals by the Orpo, they would be assured deportation to Auschwitz or the death camp of Sobibor. Sobibor was established in 1942 as the second killing center within Operation Reinhard, a plan enacted by the German SS and Police Leader in Lublin to kill the majority of the Polish Jews in the General government. This operation alone is responsible for the murder of approximately 1.7 million Polish Jews deported from Ghettos, or areas created to segregate

In the pre-war years, the Nazi Party wanted to find a solution to the “Jewish question” – meaning what to do with them (“Final Solution” Learning). On July 31, 1941, Heydrich submitted the “draft of the measures he proposed to undertake ‘to implement the desired final solution of the Jewish Question’” (“SS”). In the fall of 1941, the Nazi soldiers implemented the plan and began to effectuate it by experimental gassings in the Auschwitz extermination camp and then moving forth to surrounding camps (“Final Solution” Learning). Between then and 1945, the top SS soldiers continued to give the orders to torture, mass shoot, gas (especially in constructed extermination camps), enforce murderous labor, and other means (“Holocaust”). The ideas, which were thought of by Himmler, Eichmann, and Heydrich, are what allowed for this brutality to cause such a large scale genocide. Despite the eleven million

Autumn of 1941, Heinrich told German General Odilo Globocnik to proceed with the plan to murder all of the Jews in the General government. The plan’s name was Operation Reinhard and it was named after Heydrich. A big part of the plan was the killing centers. The names of the killing centers are Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Their main purpose was the killing of

Each part had a specific task for its prisoners. Buna, the main work camp supplied hundreds of workers for construction jobs as well as factory labor. Buna was the third and final camp that was built. The prisoners worked in the Petro-Chemical Corporation I.G. Farben factory. There they made synthetic rubber and fuel. Before the factory was built, the Nazis had the prisoners clear the land and make it suitable for the factory’s construction. The land prior to the clearing was an open marsh which later lead to many diseases being spread by the prisoners throughout the camp. This lead to very high casualties, especially the cold winter months. The second part of the concentration camp that was built was Birkenau. The intention of the Birkenau concentration camp was to be a prison. In Birkenau, the Nazis held prisoners of war from when they invaded the Soviet Union. Within the prison, the people staying there as prisoners were punished in numerous ways. They were tortured for data on the war, they were selected, if fit, to take part in painful medical experiments by Doctor Josef Mengele. The most infamous part of the Auschwitz compound was the kill camp, Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a repurposed Austro-Hungarian artillery barrack. All the camps had casualties, but Auschwitz main goal was to exterminate its population. Anyone unfit to work was sent to Auschwitz to be killed. These were usually the elderly, young children, and women not fit for working. They were killed in gas chambers designed and built by the Nazis. The chambers would kill by releasing Zyklon B into the air, which then suffocated and killed people in an average time of fifteen minutes. Zyklon B is an insecticide which means it is used to kill insects, but it is so potent that when oxidized it can even kill humans. Then to dispose of the

Operation T-4 was the killing by the Germans of the defenseless, the handicapped and mentally disabled. The Nazis believed that these men and women were a burden to society and exhibited the classification of “Life unworthy of life”, so they therefore began exterminating them from existence. The Nazis viewed them as a waste of time and money and began what would eventually become the largest genocide in history. Operation T-4 originated and obtained its name within a hospital located on #4 Terrian Strasse street, the hospital in which all of the handicapped and disabled patients were being held. To commence the ridding of these “worthless bothers”, the killing began with medical professionals injecting serum into the patient and ultimately

At Treblinka, the death was omnipresent. The camp was created in 1941 as one of the featured sites for Operation Reinhard, the German and Poland’s plan to murder more than 2 million Jews. The camp consisted of two locations; the first was a forced labor sight titled Treblinka I, the second was an extermination site called Treblinka II. In Treblinka II prisoners were lead to gas

Camp Dachau from 1933 - 1945 The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying times in the history of our world, so there’s a lot to talk about on the topic. I chose to discuss Dachau, and what happened when it was a concentration camp. All that happened with one goal in mind, to murder all Jews and all other people that weren't "pure. " You'll hear from survivors, learn about what happened at the camp, and how it affected the world.

Inmates resembled skeletons and were so weak they were unable to move. The smell of burning bodies was ever present and piles of corpses were scattered around the camp. However, you could be “saved” from the crematoria to be used as test subjects to cruel experimentation and used as lab rats for any experiment the scientists wanted to conduct. Later in the war, extermination camps were built. These were specialized for the mass murder of Jews using Zyklon B to ensure a painful, long, and torturous death. The bodies would then be thrown into the fire and all clothes, teeth, and shoes would be sent to pursue the German war front. At max efficiency, 20,000 people would be killed in the gas chambers a day. As the red Army approached near to liberate the Jews in concentration and extermination camps, SS officers sent prisoners on a death march across hundreds of miles, where they ran with no food or water, no matter the weather, until they reached the closest camp. SS officers proceeded to blow up the camps to hide the genocide from the

I chose the concentration camp Treblinka, it was established in November of 1941. With the support of the SS and Police Leader for District Warsaw in “Generalgouvernement”, SS and police authorities established a forced-labor camp for Jews (Treblinka). Later on it became Treblinka I. In addition to it being a labor camp, it also served as a “Labor Education Camp” for non-Jewish Poles, who the Germans believed to have violated labor discipline. Jewish and Polish prisoners were put into separate compounds of the camp, and deployed at forced labor. The killing center known as Treblinka II was completed in July of 1942, about a mile from the Treblinka I, and a rail spur was added that led from Treblinka I to Treblinka II. The Treblinka camp

The history of gas chambers is one of horror and shock. It’s no surprise that Nazis were always searching for more efficient means of eliminating the Jewish population. The organized many

To start off with, many Jews were killed at Treblinka Extermination camp. Apart from Auschwitz, Treblinka murdered the highest amount of jews out of all of the camps (Treblinka extermination camp). An estimate says between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews were killed there (Treblinka extermination camp). Train cars were brought to Treblinka around twenty cars at a time (Treblinka). From there, the Jews were taken out and to the gas chambers. This camp was responsible for many

By 1939, he was given complete control over the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). This final group he 'd gained power over, involving the SD, Criminal Police and Gestapo was the group responsible for the unthinkable amount of deaths in Europe. While leader of this organization, he 'd now been attending important Nazi conferences. While at a conference on January, 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich declared the final solution to the Jewish question The usage of Zyklon-B had then been decided for the extermination of Jews at death camps after being deported to the east. The first camp that this methode began at was Auschwitz, where three million had been killed, most from gas chambers.

In early autumn of 1941, Heinrich Himmler, the Reich leader of the SS and chief of German police, instructs SS General Odilo Globocnik to carry out the mass extermination of the Jewish population in the General Government. The General Government area was the German-occupied Poland not directly annexed into Germany. Himmler’s plan became known as Operation Reinhard and it consisted of the construction of three mass killing camps – Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. Belzec became the first extermination camp to become operational during World War II.

On October 14, prisoners killed 11 guards and set the whole camp on fire. Around 300 prisoners escaped, but lots were killed during the manhunt. Only 50 Jews survived at the end of the war. At Auschwitz prisoners of the Sonderkommando the special squad whose job it was to burn the bodies of the murdered victims, learned that there were plans to kill them. On October 7, 1944 a group of them rose up, killing 3 guards and blowing up the crematorium. Hundreds of prisoners escaped, but most were found and killed.Four young women were hung in front of remaining inmates because accused of supplying the dynamite. One of them, 23-year- old Roza Robota, shouted as the trapdoor opened “Be strong, have courage”.