Extermination Camps During World War II
World War II was a very brutal and terrible war led by Adolf Hitler. During this war, Jews were discriminated by Hitler and his followers. Most of these European Jews were eventually sent to concentration camps. The purposes of the concentration camps were to concentrate Jews, to get free slave labor, and to kill them.
First of all, the primary purpose was to concentrate Jews, hence the name. The Jews were concentrated in small areas and most importantly, away from the rest of the population. Anti-semitism, or the hatred of Jews, was not new; its roots go back to the Middle Ages where they were persecuted. Jews have been blamed for many, many epidemic problems like the death of Jesus and the Black Death. During World War II, Jews were blamed …show more content…
The first day that they were sent to camps was the hardest day to survive. They chose the people who could work and killed all the other ones. Most camps just burned all those people in cremations, but there were also specific extermination camps (or death camps or killing centers). These extermination camps were an efficient way of mass murdering Jews. These extermination camps started opening in 1941 when Hitler thought of the Final Solution which was to kill all the Jews. These camps facilitated this idea. Some of the notorious extermination camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Being a Jew at any of these camps would mean certain death. These Jews were killed by poison gas which was a very efficient way to kill many people. The largest gas chambers were in Auschwitz-Birkenau where at their height, they gassed 6,000 Jews each day. The Germans tried to hide these gas chambers, so in Chelmno, there were mobile gas vans. At the end of World War II, they murdered 2.7 million Jews by shooting or poisoned gas. This accounts for approximately 45% of the Jewish deaths in World War II. Before the war, there were 9 million Jews in Europe, and 6 million of them got killed. All in all, these extermination camps efficiently killed 30% of the Jewish population, and Hitler thought they deserved
First of all, the primary purpose was to concentrate Jews, hence the name. The Jews were concentrated in small areas and most importantly, away from the rest of the population. Anti-semitism, or the hatred of Jews, was not new; its roots go back to the Middle Ages where they were persecuted. Jews have been blamed for many, many epidemic problems like the death of Jesus and the Black Death. During World War II, Jews were blamed …show more content…
The first day that they were sent to camps was the hardest day to survive. They chose the people who could work and killed all the other ones. Most camps just burned all those people in cremations, but there were also specific extermination camps (or death camps or killing centers). These extermination camps were an efficient way of mass murdering Jews. These extermination camps started opening in 1941 when Hitler thought of the Final Solution which was to kill all the Jews. These camps facilitated this idea. Some of the notorious extermination camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Being a Jew at any of these camps would mean certain death. These Jews were killed by poison gas which was a very efficient way to kill many people. The largest gas chambers were in Auschwitz-Birkenau where at their height, they gassed 6,000 Jews each day. The Germans tried to hide these gas chambers, so in Chelmno, there were mobile gas vans. At the end of World War II, they murdered 2.7 million Jews by shooting or poisoned gas. This accounts for approximately 45% of the Jewish deaths in World War II. Before the war, there were 9 million Jews in Europe, and 6 million of them got killed. All in all, these extermination camps efficiently killed 30% of the Jewish population, and Hitler thought they deserved