The largest genocide in history that killed approximately eleven million human beings who were either homosexuals,Jews, gypsies, communists or socialists. The Holocaust was the works of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime, the catastrophic event occurred from January 30 1933 to May 8 1945. The ethnic group who was targeted a significant amount throughout the Holocaust was the Jewish people. Adolf Hitler made it out as if the Jews were horrible, horrific people who were greedy and criminals.
Hitler was an extremely well spoken man and was able to convince and manipulate the nation of Germany, his charisma skills were outstanding. The genocide happened in stages, first the Nuremberg Law excluded Jewish people from civil society, in 1933 concentration …show more content…
It was built and operated by the Third Reich in Poland. It consisted of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz III Monowitz. Polish political prisoners were held in Auschwitz I they arrived in May 1940. September 1941 the first extermination of prisoners took place in Auschwitz II Birkenau which became a major site the Nazi “Final solution of the Jewish question”. Jews were delivered to the camp’s gas chambers via train from 1942 to 1944, they were coming from all over German occupied Europe.
Auschwitz I was located administratively in Germany after Poland was annexed by Nazi Germany. SS - Oberführer Arpad Wigand suggested it to be a concentration camp for Polish prisoners. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski had been searching for a site in the Silesia region to hold prisoners because the local prison were filled to capacity. The site already had sixteen dilapidated one story building since it had once served as an Austrian and also Polish Army barracks. Head of the SS approved the site in April 1940 to use the facility to imprison political prisoners. German prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp were the first to arrive at the camp in May 1940, intended to act as functionaries within the prison …show more content…
Summer 1942, medical experiments commenced without the consent on 86 women, 74 were Polish. Two experiments the Polish women had to experience. One was to test the efficacy of sulfonamide drugs and the second was studying bones, muscle, and nerve regeneration and the possibility of transplanting bones from one to another human. These experiments left women with physical damage and 5 dead. Around 120 - 140 Gypsy women were sterilized at camp in January 1945, all had been deceived into signing the consent having been if they consent they would be
Hitler was an extremely well spoken man and was able to convince and manipulate the nation of Germany, his charisma skills were outstanding. The genocide happened in stages, first the Nuremberg Law excluded Jewish people from civil society, in 1933 concentration …show more content…
It was built and operated by the Third Reich in Poland. It consisted of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz III Monowitz. Polish political prisoners were held in Auschwitz I they arrived in May 1940. September 1941 the first extermination of prisoners took place in Auschwitz II Birkenau which became a major site the Nazi “Final solution of the Jewish question”. Jews were delivered to the camp’s gas chambers via train from 1942 to 1944, they were coming from all over German occupied Europe.
Auschwitz I was located administratively in Germany after Poland was annexed by Nazi Germany. SS - Oberführer Arpad Wigand suggested it to be a concentration camp for Polish prisoners. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski had been searching for a site in the Silesia region to hold prisoners because the local prison were filled to capacity. The site already had sixteen dilapidated one story building since it had once served as an Austrian and also Polish Army barracks. Head of the SS approved the site in April 1940 to use the facility to imprison political prisoners. German prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp were the first to arrive at the camp in May 1940, intended to act as functionaries within the prison …show more content…
Summer 1942, medical experiments commenced without the consent on 86 women, 74 were Polish. Two experiments the Polish women had to experience. One was to test the efficacy of sulfonamide drugs and the second was studying bones, muscle, and nerve regeneration and the possibility of transplanting bones from one to another human. These experiments left women with physical damage and 5 dead. Around 120 - 140 Gypsy women were sterilized at camp in January 1945, all had been deceived into signing the consent having been if they consent they would be