History.com Staff. "AUSCHWITZ." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 22 Sept. 2016.
The article, “AUSCHWITZ” shared many horrific acts the Nazis made that occurred during the Holocaust in World War ll. This article stated that Jewish people were perceived as the enemies and that more than one million of them died at Auschwitz. Hitler, who was the chancellor of Germany at that time, believed that there needed to be a “final solution”. The article shared that the final solution was to exterminate every Jew, artist, educator, Gypsy, communist, mentally/physically handicapped, homosexual person there was, or anyone who seemed unfit in his eyes. The nazis at Auschwitz examined the Jews as they arrived to the camp to see if they were …show more content…
It was also the largest camp during the Holocaust and located in Oshwiecim in Galacia. The article states that it was established by order of Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler on April 27, 1940. Mass murders became a daily routine with trains dropping prisoners off everyday and sending most straight to the gas chamber. The gas chambers help a glass called Zyklon-B and more than 90% of people that died from it was Jews. On July 8, 1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 148 trains. That was the largest amount of prisoners deported at one time during WW2. Many children who went to the camp died right away and others sent straight to work. A man named Mangele had a fascination with twins. He experimented on the and tried changing their eye color and even switching out the twins limbs and organs. Sometimes the children didn't even get anesthesia. Many “camp doctors” tested on children and prisoners and one woman by the name of Herta Oberhauser rubbed glass and saw dust into the wounds of the patients to hear them scream. She was sentence to prison for 20 years and later got out and became a family doctor. The article mentions that at the ending of the war, there wasn't enough room for the children in the trains and the Nazis did not want to come back to get them so they threw them into ovens and let them burn to …show more content…
Hundred of thousands of Polish and Jewish people were held as prisoners and slaughtered in gas chambers. In July 1944, 400,000 Hungarian Jewish people were sent to Poland and ended up at Auschwitz and many were killed on the spot. Many of the prisoners were tricked and were told that they were going to be changed in Poland for prisoners of war. They were told to write home saying that everything was fine and tell about their cheerful experience. Many prisoners also were also said to have been committing crimes that they weren't and were being punished and sent away, but were actually innocent. About 6,000 people each day died in the gas chamber and one day the polish prisoners got fed up and attacked and killed 6 of the Germans. The Germans came back and killed 200 of them. When the Red Army showed up, they came to find only a few thousand remained at Auschwitz while the others escaped leaving the weak and the remains of the burnt down buildings. Capturing Auschwitz came to the Red Army in advanced on three fronts such as the East to the north, in western Poland as well as Silesia in eastern
The article, “AUSCHWITZ” shared many horrific acts the Nazis made that occurred during the Holocaust in World War ll. This article stated that Jewish people were perceived as the enemies and that more than one million of them died at Auschwitz. Hitler, who was the chancellor of Germany at that time, believed that there needed to be a “final solution”. The article shared that the final solution was to exterminate every Jew, artist, educator, Gypsy, communist, mentally/physically handicapped, homosexual person there was, or anyone who seemed unfit in his eyes. The nazis at Auschwitz examined the Jews as they arrived to the camp to see if they were …show more content…
It was also the largest camp during the Holocaust and located in Oshwiecim in Galacia. The article states that it was established by order of Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler on April 27, 1940. Mass murders became a daily routine with trains dropping prisoners off everyday and sending most straight to the gas chamber. The gas chambers help a glass called Zyklon-B and more than 90% of people that died from it was Jews. On July 8, 1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 148 trains. That was the largest amount of prisoners deported at one time during WW2. Many children who went to the camp died right away and others sent straight to work. A man named Mangele had a fascination with twins. He experimented on the and tried changing their eye color and even switching out the twins limbs and organs. Sometimes the children didn't even get anesthesia. Many “camp doctors” tested on children and prisoners and one woman by the name of Herta Oberhauser rubbed glass and saw dust into the wounds of the patients to hear them scream. She was sentence to prison for 20 years and later got out and became a family doctor. The article mentions that at the ending of the war, there wasn't enough room for the children in the trains and the Nazis did not want to come back to get them so they threw them into ovens and let them burn to …show more content…
Hundred of thousands of Polish and Jewish people were held as prisoners and slaughtered in gas chambers. In July 1944, 400,000 Hungarian Jewish people were sent to Poland and ended up at Auschwitz and many were killed on the spot. Many of the prisoners were tricked and were told that they were going to be changed in Poland for prisoners of war. They were told to write home saying that everything was fine and tell about their cheerful experience. Many prisoners also were also said to have been committing crimes that they weren't and were being punished and sent away, but were actually innocent. About 6,000 people each day died in the gas chamber and one day the polish prisoners got fed up and attacked and killed 6 of the Germans. The Germans came back and killed 200 of them. When the Red Army showed up, they came to find only a few thousand remained at Auschwitz while the others escaped leaving the weak and the remains of the burnt down buildings. Capturing Auschwitz came to the Red Army in advanced on three fronts such as the East to the north, in western Poland as well as Silesia in eastern