The holocaust
The
Holocaust was a systematically killing that was responsible for
approximately six million Jews who were killed by the Nazi regime.
From 1941 to 1945, Jews were targeted and methodically murdered in killing. One of the largest in history, and part of a combined acts of cruelty and killings of various ethnic and political groups in Europe by the Nazis. Non-Jewish victims of broader Nazi crimes included Gypsies, Poles, communists, homosexuals, and the mentally and physically disabled. In total, approximately 11 million people were killed, including approximately one million Jewish children.
The persecutions and killings were carried out in stages. Initially the German government passed laws to exclude Jews from civil society’. A network of concentration camps were established starting in 1933 and ghettos were established after the outbreak of World War II in 1939. In 1941, as Germany conquered new territory in Eastern Europe, specialized paramilitary units called “Einsatzgruppen” were used to murder around two million Jews and "members", often in mass shootings. By the end of 1942, victims were being regularly transported by freight trains to specially built extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, most were killed in gas chambers. The use of camps equipped with gas chambers for the purpose of systematic mass extermination of people was a distinctive feature of the Holocaust in history.
Extermination through labor was a policy of systematic extermination – camp inmates would literally be worked to death, then they would be gassed or shot.
Ghettos were intended to be temporary until the Jews were deported. But deportation never occurred. Instead, the ghettos' inhabitants were sent to extermination camps.
During this period, the concentration camps were also sites of shocking and corrupt medical experiments conducted on prisoners against their will and often ended with deadly results. For example, in Dachau, German scientists experimented on prisoners to determine the length of time German air force personnel might survive under reduced air pressure or in frozen water. In Sachsenhausen, various experiments were directed on prisoners to find vaccines for deadly and contagious diseases. At Auschwitz III, the SS doctor Josef Mengele engaged experiments on twins to seek ways of increasing the German population by breeding families that would produce twins. These experiments were based for the most part on false science and fantasies.
Updated May 12, 2015
From 1941 to 1945, Jews were targeted and methodically murdered in killing. One of the largest in history, and part of a combined acts of cruelty and killings of various ethnic and political groups in Europe by the Nazis. Non-Jewish victims of broader Nazi crimes included Gypsies, Poles, communists, homosexuals, and the mentally and physically disabled. In total, approximately 11 million people were killed, including approximately one million Jewish children.
The persecutions and killings were carried out in stages. Initially the German government passed laws to exclude Jews from civil society’. A network of concentration camps were established starting in 1933 and ghettos were established after the outbreak of World War II in 1939. In 1941, as Germany conquered new territory in Eastern Europe, specialized paramilitary units called “Einsatzgruppen” were used to murder around two million Jews and "members", often in mass shootings. By the end of 1942, victims were being regularly transported by freight trains to specially built extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, most were killed in gas chambers. The use of camps equipped with gas chambers for the purpose of systematic mass extermination of people was a distinctive feature of the Holocaust in history.
Extermination through labor was a policy of systematic extermination – camp inmates would literally be worked to death, then they would be gassed or shot.
Ghettos were intended to be temporary until the Jews were deported. But deportation never occurred. Instead, the ghettos' inhabitants were sent to extermination camps.
During this period, the concentration camps were also sites of shocking and corrupt medical experiments conducted on prisoners against their will and often ended with deadly results. For example, in Dachau, German scientists experimented on prisoners to determine the length of time German air force personnel might survive under reduced air pressure or in frozen water. In Sachsenhausen, various experiments were directed on prisoners to find vaccines for deadly and contagious diseases. At Auschwitz III, the SS doctor Josef Mengele engaged experiments on twins to seek ways of increasing the German population by breeding families that would produce twins. These experiments were based for the most part on false science and fantasies.
Updated May 12, 2015
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