Internment Camps In The Holocaust

1098 Words5 Pages

The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II in which approximately six million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by Adolf Hitler 's Nazi regime and its collaborators. Some more five million non-jewish people were killed bringing it to about eleven million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories.

From 1933 to 1945, Jews were regularly killed in a genocide, one of the largest in history, and part of a wider aggregate of acts of oppression and murders of different racial and political groups in Europe by the Nazi regime. Every arm of Germany 's bureaucracy was apart of the logistics and the carrying out of the genocide, turning the Third Reich into "a genocidal state". Other victims of …show more content…

Never before had there been places with the express purpose of murdering people en masse. These were established at Auschwitz, Belzec,Chelmno, Jasenovac, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sobibor, and Treblinka. The extermination camps were built to regularly kill millions, primarily by gassing, but also by execution and extreme labor under malnourishing conditions. The idea of mass murdering with the use of stationary buildings built exclusively for that purpose was a result of earlier Nazi experimentation with chemically based toxic gas during the secretive Action T4 euthanasia programme against mental …show more content…

Originally the German government passed laws to exclude Jews from society, most prominently the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. A network of concentration camps was built starting in 1933 and ghettos were built following 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 kill around two million Jews and "partisans", mostly in mass shootings. By the end of 1942, victims were being systematically moved by freight trains to specially built murder camps where, if they survived the journey, most were regularly murdered in gas chambers. The campaign of extermination continued until the end of World War II in Europe in

Open Document