Death during the Holocaust started with apportioning Jews into the ghettos. Many people died in the ghettos from poor living conditions that caused disease or being shot. Others were sent to concentration camps or killing centers. The first killing center was Chelmno, built in 1941, where at least 320,000 people were killed. At Chelmno and many other camps like it, people were immediately gassed in a mobile van if they were not chosen to be placed in a small work group. The largest camp was Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 1.1 million people died. This camp was equipped to kill up to 20,000 people per day. Most people died at the camps in gas chambers. The commandants at the different camps were responsible for constantly torturing the prisoners,
During the Holocaust Hitler used guns but in time he included gas chambers because they were more efficient and had a quicker impact on killing the Jews. The rivers and streams ran red with blood where the shooting had taken place. The living conditions for the Jews, were unbelievable, Germans began transporting Jews and others to the concentration camps and death camps in Poland. The first gassing was on the 17 march 1942, the death of the people inside the chambers occurred just after a few minutes as the result of internal suffocation caused by the gas. In order to ensure that no one remained alive, the gas chamber was not opened until half an hour had elapsed. The concentration camps provided an ideal location for executions, The concentration camps were
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.
February 14, 1940, leaders of the Nazis called for reopening the killing center at Chelmno. The SS and police previously attending in the operation were assembled. The Germans then constructed two reception barracks and two open air ovens. On June 23, 1944, the killing process is resumed with the deportations of Jews from the Lodz ghetto. Innocent people were killed either by shooting or asphyxiation. On July 14, 1944, transportations of Jews to Chelmno are halted and changed to Auschwitz camp instead. In less than a month from June to July 1944, the SS and police killed more than 7,000 Jews at Chelmno. (1941 - 1945 Timeline)
The holocaust was established by hitler to execute even more jews. About 6 million jews lost their lives during the holocaust. German authorities targeted groups that had a different racial inferiority. During world war II the germans went by the “final solution” a policy to murder all jews. The holocaust was a big shock for the jews. This dramatic experience still haunt the streets of germany.
During World War II when the Nazis would conquer a European city, they would force all of the Jews into just one area of the town called a ghetto. This area was guarded and was fenced with barbed wire. The jewish people had access to very little water, food, and medicine. All Jewish people were told they were being relocated to a newer and better place; then would eventually be brought into concentration camps. These camps were like prison. The people there were forced to do hard labor and the weak either were killed or died of starvation. Some of these camps included gas chambers. Large groups of people would be led into these chambers and killed with poisoned gas.
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
The organization began by the Nazis forcing the Jews into ghettos; they were broken down homes, small spaces, and horrible conditions. They also made them wear the Star of David. After that, the Nazis sent the Jews to concentration camps. The duration of the genocide lasted from 1933-1945. One of the major events in the holocaust was in 1937 when Buchenwald Concentration camps opened. The methods used to exterminate the isolated groups were shootings, gas chambers, and death camps. Jews were quickly killed so that the Nazis could bring more groups of Jews into the camps. They were also tortured by starvation and frequent medical poisonings. Six million Jews were murdered during this horrific time. One of the events during the holocaust in which a greater number of people died was in Auschwitz; 1.6 million Jews
The first concentration camp was created in 1933, just a few weeks after Hitler became chancellor. A total of twenty-two were created, and all together included 1,200 affiliated camps. The camps were found all over Germany. At first political opponents of Nazi policy were taken, and later Jews, gypsies, or criminals. Each camp consisted of barracks which were surrounded by barbed wire, watchtowers, and guards. Imprisonment in the camp included inhuman force labor, hunger, disease, mistreatment, and random executions. Prisoners were forced to work twelve hours day, or even more. The sick, old or those who could not keep up were killed by either gas, or injections. Those who could endure
The majority of the people were killed in concentration camps. Over 2,000,000 people were killed at the camp called Auschwitz. Over 1,380,000 people were killed in the camp Majdanek, and over 800,000 people were killed in the camp called Treblinka. Treblinka only had a staff of 150 people. The camp Belzec had 600,000 deaths. Some camps that had a smaller death toll were, Chelmno which had 340,000 deaths. Sobibor had 250,000 deaths. Camps that had “small” death numbers were Mauthausen who had less than 95,000 deaths, Ravensbruck had less than 90,000 deaths, and Bergen- Belsen had 70,000 deaths. Bergen-Belsen was the camp that Anne Frank died at- two weeks after her death, her camp was liberated by British troops. The German concentration camps were first set up in 1933, and the original purpose of them was to keep anyone who was “undesired” or was a political enemy to Nazi Germany. The main purpose of these camps was not to kill people, but many times people would die because of the living conditions, malnutrition, or because they were treated cruelly. Many camps did medical experiments on the detainees, and few of the victims survived these medical experiments. These gruesome experiments would be performed in an unclean room and would be performed without anesthesia. Many times it was common for the victim to die later because of unclean living quarters. Most people think that Germany wouldn’t have been a major threat in
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
The survey asked questions about previous disaster experience and training, how closely connected to the bombing they were, any depression symptoms at the time of the bombing versus those they may have one year later, any increase in alcohol consumption after the bombing, their feelings about the work that they performed, and any problems they may have had coping with what happened.
At first, the Nazis were only killing political opponents like Communists and/or Social Democrats, for which their harshest persecution was used. Many of the first prisoners sent to Dachau (The first official concentration camp opened near Munich in March of 1933) were communists. By July, the concentration camps run by the Germans held around 27,000 people in what they called “protective custody.” The Nazis had huge rallies and acts of symbolism such as burning of books by Jews. During the years of 1933 to 1939, the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were able to leave Germany got out quickly, but many were left behind, and they lived their lives in a constant state of uncertainty and fear. During the fall of 1939, Hitler started the so-called Euthanasia Program. The Euthanasia Program allowed Nazi officials to select around 70,000 German citizens institutionalized for mental illnesses or disabilities. These Germans were to be gassed to death. After prominent German
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
Plato’s Republic as a whole is founded on the idea that there an objective immutable reality and truth, which he calls ‘the good’ (506d), and the soul can realize this principle through proper education. These theories are established most prominently in the allegory of the cave, which both draws upon and unifies the analogies of the sun and the divided line.
The death penalty has been an issue of controversy, causing many states in America to repeal it and call it inhumane. However, the truth is that many citizens are strongly divided on the issue and have strong opinions on whether the death penalty should indeed be kept and reinforced or whether it should just be abolished altogether. When analyzing this issue from a sociological perspective, conflict theory is best used as an argument against the death penalty. This sociological conflict theory is heavily tied in with class conflict a conflict that outlines how socioeconomic factors affect a group of disadvantaged people more so than those that are better off financially. It is because of the disproportionate number of lower class minorities that end up on death row that makes the death penalty an inhumane and cruel way of punishing individuals for crimes that they have committed.