Mobile Killing Units Research Paper

Introduction The screech of tires, the voices calling and the knock at the door, brought fear into each member of the Jewish community,during the Holocaust. Mobile Killing Units are small groups of SS men of the Nazi Party, that were responsible for killing people of the Jewish faith from 1941-1943. “During this time, more than 6,000,000 jewish people were killed,”(projetaladin.org). “With almost having 1.4 million of those people being killed by the Mobile Killing Units,”(US Holocaust Memorial Museum). Considered mercy killings, people also were killed that were not jewish, like people with disabilities and those not considered of the Aryan Race. When the Mobile Killing Units were created, most people were not aware they even existed, …show more content…
The “Gas Van” caused up to ⅓ of all of the Mobile Killing Units deaths, which in turn proved it causimg significant change during the Holocaust. “For the nazis, shooting so many people became hard for them so they invented the Gas Van,”(Stille 37). “The SS men would herd the jews on a truck and gas them,”(Stille 38). After the “Gas Van” started to become less and less effective they discontinued the use of it. So, then after this, the Germans just went back to shooting large groups of people or taking them to concentration …show more content…
In total they killed over 1.4 million people with most being jewish. Then, there was a weapon called the “Gas Van” invented so the SS soldiers could easily reach areas within a city. Ultimately, when the Mobile Killing Units were coming to an end, a new, more horrible execution tool was created , the Death Camps. When the Mobile Killing Units began much of the jewish population were not known to them. Until the day the first jew heard the screech of the tires, the yelling and the knock at their