How Did Hitler Kill Jews During Ww2

Imagine being torn away from your family, and being told you were guaranteed to die. Unfortunately, that was exactly what happened to millions of jews during WWII. WWII was one of the worst times in all of the worlds history. It featured some of the worlds biggest problems, racism and dictatorship. This horrific event was started by a german man named Adolf Hitler, and then continued by his “followers” the nazis. The main idea that brought Hitler to power was his pure hatred for the Jews. He blamed them for Germany's loss in the first world war and many other things in his past. The Nazis started producing things called concentration camps. They were essentially a place to hold all the jews they captured until they could kill them.

There was a couple different kinds of concentration camps. Some had the soul purpose to eliminate Jews. Others forced Jews to do hard labor. Neither gave anyone a chance to survive. Often times POW camps, (Prisoners Of War) and concentrations camps would intertwine and all of the captured people would be put in one small camp. The chances of surviving any of these camps were very, very small. Out of the 9.5 …show more content…
It is believed that the Nazis killed roughly 11 million people. Not including Jews, there was also homosexuals, people with mental or physical disabilities, and a whole lists of other enemies the Nazis had. (The Holocaust's Forgotten Victims, Huffpost) The Nazis were so focused on killing their enemies, they created gas chambers. Gas chambers were a room that the Nazis filled with people, once the door closed, the would let a poisonous gas into the room and kill everyone. Gas chambers made the killing much more efficient, and less personal for the Nazis. Roughly 6,000 people were killed in gas chambers per day. (Holocaust encyclopedia,United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) The first gas chamber was called Chelmno, it was operational in late