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Holocaust is wholesale destruction.
Holocaust was the name given to the mass
persecution and murder of non-aryan races
by the Nazis during WORLD_WAR_II.
The Nazis believed that they were an
Aryan race - the perfect race. Any
'undersireables' should be destroyed
according to the Nazis. Undersireables
included: Jews, Slavs, Gypsies and
political dissidents. An estimated six-
million Jews died during the Holocaust
along with millions of people from other
races.
There were many things leading up to the
Holocaust. These included the boycott of
Jewish shops, public humiliation of Jews,
the extradition of the Jews into the
Ghettos - such as Warsaw. The Nazis
turned the whole 'aryan' German race
against non-aryan races such as the Jews.
The Nazi Party included Adolf Hitler and
there are many theories into the reason
why Hitler disliked the Jews. These are
described in Adolf Hitlers auto-
biography 'Mein Kampf'.
After the Ghettos were the camps set-up
by the Nazis. There were many camps in
the areas occupied by Germany at that
time. There were major camps which had
smaller camps situated around it. All
camps were situated on rail-routes so
that easy transportation of prisoners
could be implemented. The most
infamous of all the 'death-camps' was
Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the biggest
camp and the most gruesome.
When prisoners entered the camp by train
they had a medical check by two doctors
who segregted them into those who they
thought could work and those that
couldn't. If they could work they were
made to help the German war effort.
If they couldn't work - which included
women and children, they were killed in
the purpose built gas chambers.
The gas chambers were designed for the
job of mass-murder. The prisoners were
made to take off all their clothes and
go into what they were told were
showers - where they would be de-lowsed.
After they entered they sealed the
room shut and then an officer would
empty a tin of capsules into the room
through a little iron door in the roof.
After he emptied the capsules in he
shut the door and the capsules would
give of cyanide gas. After a few minutes
some soldiers would go into the room.
When they opened the doors a blue-haze
would be in the air and they found that
the bodies would be in a pryamid going
up to the iron door in the roof. Each
person trying to get out of the room.
After they were gassed, German soldiers
took glasses, gold teeth, wigs or
other valuables from the people that had
died so that they could be used for the
war effort.
In the camps, many people committed
suicide. Many tried to escape but failed,
they would have been killed by the guards
surrounding the camp or while climbing
the massive electric fences.
Subject by: Graham Hamilton.