The Pros And Cons Of Denying 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.

Auschwitz was one of the largest and first concentration camp during WW2 and next to Auschwitz were two other death camps that were named Auschwitz ll and lll. At Auschwitz, there was a total of 8 gas chambers and 4 of them can hold up to 2,000 prisoners (Mostly Jews) at a time. There were 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust and it estimated that 6 million Jews were killed and one in six was killed at Auschwitz.

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

During the Nazi Holocaust, multiple working and death camps were created to hold the captured Jews. While the Jews lived in this camp, they were tortured, mistreated, worked to death and eventually were put to death by either execution by firearm or were put into a death camp which exterminated the Jews using poison gas. The Nazi Party had developed many death camps in the central european area including the 6 death camps of Poland; Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Majdanek.

Hitler and the Nazis tortured the Jews using concentration camps in many ways. In the concentration camps, Jews had to do many things they had forced labor and many other things. They used Jews for whatever construction they wanted. “Forced labor, from as early as 1934, concentration camp commandants used Jews as forced laborer for ss-commissioned construction” (Holocaust encyclopedia). Some Jews were in higher places and some in lower places. “Jews with a higher social status within the camp, were often rewarded with more desirable work assignments such as administrative position indoors” (ushmn). Those Jews who were lower had more demanding tasks. “Those lower on the social ladder had more demanding tasks. “Those lower on the social ladder had more physically demanding tasks such as factory work, mining, and construction.” (ushmn) “ Mainly some Jews suffered of physical exhaustion and meager reactions.

Many mass killings have surprisingly or unsurprisingly have occurred in human history, but not many think just how long ago they have occurred and some happened closer when put into prospective. The Holocaust was a systematic persecution and murder of six million Jews during World War II committed by the Nazi regime. It is one of the most tragic moments in history and yet, claims that something so tragic had never occurred. Holocaust denial is the denial that the events of the Holocaust had never been committed for reasoning that ranges from anti-semitic views to claims of it being nothing but propaganda spread by the Allies to give the Axis a damaged reputation. Holocaust denial is often being described as “new anti-semitism” by some scholars due to the fact that it “ recycles many of the elements of pre-1945 anti-semitism in a post-World War II context,” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Origins of Holocaust Denial). Regardless of

Genocide is best described as “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.” A major part of the Holocaust genocide is denial. Holocaust denial is present in the United States, Europe, and Canada. These people, known as “revisionists” try to deny the extermination of six million Jews during World War II. The revisionists claim that there are no documents to prove the holocaust actually existed (Holocaust Denial n. pag). “The Holocaust, like evolution, is robustly supported and generally accepted by all but a fringe minority, but it must nevertheless be continually tested, regularly revised, and constantly improved” (Shermer n. pag). The attempt to refute the genocide against the Jews has been a very widespread anti-semitic indoctrination using the arguments of extermination, testimonies, and the Nuremberg trials.

Victims of the Nazi army were forced from their homes and transported by train to concentration camps. A well-known concentration camp by the name of Auschwitz became the extermination center to over one million Jewish citizens. Victims experienced a magnitude of horrors inside the walls of Auschwitz. Every single day, Jewish prisoners faced a grisly life, having to

On January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed the German chancellor. This was the beginning of the most tragic and horrifying mass murder the world has ever known. Adolf Hitler was a man who despised Jews and blamed them for everything that had gone wrong in Germany. He wanted to annihilate every living Jew in Germany through a plan that he called “The Final Solution.” To fulfill his master plan, he appointed German SS officers to round up mass amounts of Jews and ship them off to death camps. In 1940s, the Nazis opened Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was the largest concentration camp ever established by the Germans. This camp played a very crucial role in the elimination of Jews and had the largest (estimated) death rate of 1.1 million during the Holocaust. Auschwitz was divided in three major camps: Auschwitz I, which was the main camp, Auschwitz II, which was using as an extermination camp and Auschwitz III, also known as Monowitz, where prisoners were sent to do hard labor. It was a complex of camps, including a concentration, extermination, and forced-labor camp.

Adolf Hitler was the mastermind behind wanting to kill all of the Jews. Later on, Hitler even persecuted people outside of the Jewish religion. There was forced labor, or you would be sentenced to death. If you were a child, a pregnant woman, or a senior, you would be put to death right away. A Nazi, Josef Mengele, performed many experiments on people. To study the human eye color, he injected serum into the eyeballs of dozens of children, causing them excruciating pain. He also injected chloroform into the heart of twins, to determine if both siblings would die at the same time and in the same manner. There were also subdivision camps called Auschwitz ll and Auschwitz lll. Altogether, the camps held

There were many concentration camps throughout Germany during the Holocaust. The largest and most known camp was Auschwitz. Auschwitz executed 1.1 million Jews, Roma, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war. Other concentration camps include Clemo, Sobibor, Belzec, and Treblinka. A famously known Jewish girl, Anne Frank, perished at the camp Bergan a few weeks before liberation from disease

According to thegaurdian, “Over one million Jews were deported to the camp, of this at least 960,000 were killed. Other victims included approximately 74,000 Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war and at least 10,000 from other nationalities. More people died at Auschwitz than any other death camp in history. The Soviet troops who discovered Auschwitz came across grisly evidence of the horror. They discovered about 7.000 starving prisoners, millions of items of clothing that once belonged to men, women and children, along with 6,350 kg (13999.35 lbs) of human hair. Also discovered were one hundred thousand pairs of shoes, twelve thousand kitchen utensils, three thousand eight hundred suitcases and three hundred fifty striped camp garments. Also discovered were one hundred thousand pairs of shoes, twelve thousand kitchen utensils, three thousand eight hundred suitcases and three hundred fifty striped camp garments. Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) had the largest prisoner population and had the first chamber using lethal Zyklon B gas. In the Auschwitz camps more than Jews died, other nationalities fell victim as well.They performed medical experimentation on Jewish and Roma prisoners, including castration, sterilization and testing how they were affected by contagious diseases,” (“Auschwitz: a short history of the largest mass murder site in human history”). In most concentration camps,

Deborah E. Lipstadt’s book “Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory” is a journey into the history of the Holocaust denial movement. She explains in excessive detail that as time continues to go on, people have concluded that the Holocaust did not exist or that it was extremely exaggerated. Lipstadt is an Associate Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. She was a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; also in 1994 was appointed by Bill Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, where she served 2 terms “Third Annual Bamberger Memorial Lecture with Deborah E. Lipstadt (November 22,2005) “. With many accomplishments under her belt, Lipstadt writes with no

In June, 1940, the Auschwitz Concentration Camp opened; this camp would later be the home and death place of hundreds of thousands of prisoners. Jews, Poles, and Gypsies made up the large majority of prisoners in the camp. Life in Auschwitz included living in undesirable conditions, and being kept on a very strict schedule day in, day out.

Auschwitz is a death camp. Most of the people who arrive here die within four hours of arrival. In the total of four million, around ninety percent died from extermination by gas chambers and torture. Only around five hundred thousand died die to diseases and starvation. Bad treatment, pseudo-scientific experiments, gas chambers and wagons, and crematory ovens were all used