The Final Solution was a huge plan by the losing Nazis in WWII. on July 31, 1941 The Final solution was put into effect, starting a chain of events that would eventually kill a total of 6 million Jews. Killing centers were formed and the killing was to continue until the eventual defeat of Germany on May 7th, 1945.
By 1940 The Nazis established over 360 ghettos in Poland, the Soviet Union, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary. All ghettos had absolutely horrible conditions. There was very few food and water, people started auctioning off anything that they owned, even their clothes for a small piece of bread. The streets of the ghettos looked like an absolute war zone, with starving skeleton-like people walking around awaiting death while dead bodies were lying on the ground being avoided by almost everyone. In order to hopefully hold order in ghettos, a group was formed called the “Judenrat”, which represented the Jewish peoples. “In every ghetto, members of the Judenrat convinced themselves that there was a path to survival if they could only find it” (The Jewish Councils, 328). But …show more content…
“Members of every Judenrat had to decide who in their community would be resettled in the east” (Emptying the ghettos, 331). There were many concentration camps, some were; Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz, and Chelmno. There they used the human spirit and the will to survive to their advantage through intense labor. The Nazis even built a model concentration camp to show any visitors their intentions. They invited the Danish Red Cross, The Danish foreign minister, and the International Red Cross to inspect the camp. “This time, the Nazis were prepared. Before the visitors arrived, they ordered the prisoners pave streets, repair housing, build a playground, and even plant twelve hundred rosebushes” (The Model Concentration Camp, 342). On December 8th, 1941 the very first killing center began
By 1940 The Nazis established over 360 ghettos in Poland, the Soviet Union, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary. All ghettos had absolutely horrible conditions. There was very few food and water, people started auctioning off anything that they owned, even their clothes for a small piece of bread. The streets of the ghettos looked like an absolute war zone, with starving skeleton-like people walking around awaiting death while dead bodies were lying on the ground being avoided by almost everyone. In order to hopefully hold order in ghettos, a group was formed called the “Judenrat”, which represented the Jewish peoples. “In every ghetto, members of the Judenrat convinced themselves that there was a path to survival if they could only find it” (The Jewish Councils, 328). But …show more content…
“Members of every Judenrat had to decide who in their community would be resettled in the east” (Emptying the ghettos, 331). There were many concentration camps, some were; Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz, and Chelmno. There they used the human spirit and the will to survive to their advantage through intense labor. The Nazis even built a model concentration camp to show any visitors their intentions. They invited the Danish Red Cross, The Danish foreign minister, and the International Red Cross to inspect the camp. “This time, the Nazis were prepared. Before the visitors arrived, they ordered the prisoners pave streets, repair housing, build a playground, and even plant twelve hundred rosebushes” (The Model Concentration Camp, 342). On December 8th, 1941 the very first killing center began