The Horrors Of The Holocaust

My report will deal with the ways the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp were executed, and also the medical experiments that took place. Accurate statistics were not kept, but the estimation of deaths that took place at Auschwitz ranged from 1.5 million to 4 million. Jews were the largest number of people who were killed. Poles and Soviet prisoners were also killed.

Nine years after Dachau opened, the crematorium area was located beside the main camp. The old crematorium and the new crematorium was included. There was also a gas chamber, however there isn’t any credible evidence that the gas chamber in Barrack X was used to murder human beings. The gas chambers were actually for something called “selection”. Selection was when all of the Jews at the camp would go to the gas chambers to be evaluated. If a Jew was marked down as not strong enough to do work or too sick then they were sent to the Hartheim "euthanasia" killing center near Linz, Austria. Many Jewish people were killed this way. The crematoria are was also where the SS camp guards would kill prisoners; they would also kill the prisoners at the firing range. Another way that the Jewish People and prisoners were killed at Dachau was when German physicians would do medical experiment on the prisoners “including high-altitude experiments using a decompression chamber, malaria and tuberculosis experiments, hypothermia experiments, and experiments testing new medications. Prisoners were also forced to test methods of making seawater potable and of halting excessive bleeding” ("Dachau"). During this process there were hundreds of prisoners left dead, or with permanent disabilities. During World War II all of the Jews were forced to do work “Prisoners were forced to do this work, starting with the

Auschwitz was one of the most infamous and largest concentration camp known during World War II. It was located in the southwestern part of Poland commanded by Rudolf Höss. Auschwitz was first opened on June 14, 1940, much later than most of the other camps. It was in Auschwitz that the lives of so many were taken by methods of the gas chamber, crematoriums, and even from starvation and disease. These methods took "several hundreds and sometimes more than a thousand" lives a day. The majority of the lives killed were those of Jews although Gypsies, Yugoslavs, Poles, and many others of different ethnic backgrounds as well. The things most known about Auschwitz are the process people went through when entering the camp and

To Kill a Mockingbird is a witty and well-written account of the realities of a “tired old town” (4) where there was “nothing to buy and nothing to buy it with” (4). Purposefully, it comes across not merely an innocently portrayed, yet eye-opening, story of a young girl start to grasp the inequalities of her society. Rather, it is accompanied by recollection of the unfortunate pillars of hate of the places Harper Lee matured in. We now perceive this account as an ‘archaic” and “ancient” recount of some historically frowned upon mindsets in an enthralling atmosphere upon which we pin historical quantities of prejudice, racism and most of all, bigotry. The unfortunate reality is that we look at history in a vacuum and ignore the occurrences of our own times. So although we, like Scout’s teachers teaching about the horrible acts of the Holocaust while being outspokenly racist, are able to analyze social inequalities in other places in time or the world yet refuse to open our eyes to the same prejudice, racism and bigotry today. To instance, when reading To Kill a Mockingbird , we often frown upon citizens for judging “folks” based on their family name and race, although, everyday, some member of our current society, such as police officers and employers, do the same thing and no one bats an eye. Alternatively, the issue which we definitely desperately desire to avoid, racism, is explicitly tackled in To Kill a Mockingbird to the point of viral awareness of the problem in

When the corpses were deprived of valuables, they were incinerated in pits, on pyres or in large crematoriums. Crematorium II, the biggest in Auschwitz, was capable of incinerating over 1,400 bodies a day. Altogether, the four crematoria could incinerate 4,416 people a day, and over 1,600,000 individuals were cremated per year.

The Holocaust was one of the most horrible and dreaded events in history. Millions of Jews were killed, leaving many families devastated and hopeless. With the goal of racial purity, Adolf Hitler- along with many other Germans believed the Jews caused the defeat of their country, and led the Nazis to the elimination of Jews. For this reason, “Even in the early 21st century, the legacy of the Holocaust endures…as many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day” (The Holocaust). Later, Hitler organized concentration camps, where mass transports of Jews from ghettoes were brought and typically killed also. However, the fortunate Jews that were not killed still had many restrictions on their

Out of the six million that were killed no bodies were autopsied to see if the gassings had actually occurred. The claimed gas chambers used zyklon b as the gas to kill the jews. Zyklon B is used for a pesticide on many crops around the world at that time. It was claimed that the zyklon was dumped into large buildings that the jews thought were showers. It was inserted through holes in the roof called chimneys. Dr. Franciszek Pipe admitted that at crematory building one or Krema one that the chimneys were put into the ceilings after the war so that it would look like more evidence to support the large hoax that the multiple so called victims pulled off. (Is the Holocaust a Hoax) If one building was faked after the war then more than one must be fake if the germans did it to one then they could have easily done it to many more. If multiple gas chambers and crematories were just for looks then the actual death tolls would be nothing near what the believers are

My understanding of the inhumane event of the Holocaust was deeply strengthened for the past few days from reading Maus (Art Spiegelman) and Night (Elie Wiesel). I soon after quickly grasp how Adolf Hitler’s plan of genociding more than six million Jews off the planet was America’s worst history. Many German soldiers were following orders of removing all Jews, but their tactics of killing them were dreadful. Germans soldiers were able to cremate the victim, murder them, Jews died from harsh conditions, eventually growing weak, or even a bullet to the head of Jews ranging from all ages. During this event, Jews were held up in largely overcrowded concentration camps; such as Buna in the novel Night.

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

Print. “Gassing Operations.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005220. Accessed on 16 Feb. 2018. Uwe, Adam.

“The best estimates of the number of victims at the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, including the killing center at Auschwitz-Birkenau, between 1940 and 1945 are: Jews (1,095,000 deported to Auschwitz, of whom 960,000 died); Poles (147,000 deported, of whom 74,000 died); Roma (23,000 deported, of whom 21,000 died); Soviet prisoners of war (15,000 deported and died); and other nationalities (25,000 deported, of whom 12,000 died)” (“The Auschwitz concentration camp complex”). Also, of the 1.1 and 1.5 million people who died in Auschwitz, 90% were Jews. Overall, lots of people died at the Auschwitz concentration camp complex

In addition, each extermination camp contained crematoriums, where thousands of “naked corpses would be dragged across the floor to the ovens” (Muller 14). Another similarity found in the structures, are the crematoriums containing ovens with a depression “roughly 20 to 25 centimeters deep and 1 metre wide” heading straight to the ovens (Muller 14). Based on the measurements found in the structure, the corpses would have been easily transported from the chambers into crematorium ovens. Evidence hints that the Nazis were not concerned with their expenses because they created similar structures throughout Poland. The surviving structure in Auschwitz is evidence that the Nazis did in fact create gas chambers to vanish all Jews.

The genocide carried out in Germany against the Jews included the setting of gas chambers and extermination camps. The Jews who occupied the country were rounded up and sent to the camps for slave labour strength testing; those who were classified as “unfit” were sent directly to the gas chambers. In addition to this type of mass killing, because the gas chambers were unable to fit all the “unfit” Jews, the remainder were sent to extermination camps; large enough to exterminate a maximum of 28,000 people per day at just one of many camps.

It can be argued that Auschwitz worked more as a work camp instead of a euthanization camp but due to the malnourishment of those within the camp and the death of most of the prisoners who were in the camp Auschwitz is more appropriately seen as a combination of both the holding and euthanization process (Kessler, 2007). Some historians may argue that Auschwitz and concentration camps like it were organized like a jail as that served its primary purpose. While this claim is true to the extent of basic organization the T4 program’s disjointed site locations most likely served as a proving grounds for the most effective techniques leading the government to construction of both sites in the same location as the most effective used in tandem with

The never ending bus trip took three days because the Nazi soldiers kept stopping to gather up other people just like me but soon enough our bus was beyond crowded. While on the bus nobody spoke, the only noises you could here were the little children crying because they were separated from their families just as I had been. When we reached our destination, the concentration camp looked exactly like people have speculated it to look like; The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens, were standing there before my eyes. Once we exited the cramped bus, we were led to a room where our hair was cut, we were showered, handed stripped pajamas with wooden shoes, and branded with a number upon our