Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria. Hitler rose to power in German politics as leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, also known as the Nazi Party. Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, serving as the dictator. In 1938, Hitler, along with other European leaders, signed …show more content…
The final solution was a way to eliminate the jews in ways they would never forget. Jews were kicked out of their homes and put into ghettos to live and work in. Hitler issued three types of ghettos: closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. Closed ghettos are ghettos were closed off by walls or by fences often with barbed wire. German authorities forced Jews living in the surrounding areas to move into the closed ghetto. These ghettos were extremely crowded and were under unsanitary conditions. Starvation, severe winter weather, unheated housing, and the absence of medical services led to repeated outbreaks of illnesses and sometimes death. Open ghettos had no walls or fences, but there were restrictions on entering and leaving. Jews who lived in these ghettos were often lucky because they had a better chance of survival in the conditions of these ghettos. Destruction ghettos were tightly sealed off and existed for between two and six weeks before the Germans shot the Jews that were sent to these ghettos. Jews who often tried to escape got put into these …show more content…
One main method that the german soldiers used was the gas chamber method. The gas chamber method was a way to kill large groups of people at one time. The steps of this method were to lure the jews into a room where they thought it was a normal shower room. Once the jews were in the room they were instantly locked in the room and the gas was released. The gas vaporized the room and the jews breathed it in and it burned out the insides of their lungs and caused them to suffocate and die. This method caused a massive death rate of jews and homosexuals at almost 13.4 thousand dead per