Adolph Hitler came to power because he shared with the German people the dream he had of a militarily dominant Germany which would be admired by all Europeans countries. However Hitler’s dream also included the genocide of all Jews, Gypsies, and other racial minority groups which he deemed to be inferior to the Aryan race. Hitler used the Jews as an scapegoat by blaming them for the strained economic and political conditions which lead Germany to go to war as a result Jewish people were discriminated against the most. Hitler even had Jews wear the Star of David to isolate them from everyone else and make them an easier target for the Nazi police. In attempts to hide the truth about what really occurred inside the concentration camps, the Nazi
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First it started with the law for the protection of German blood and German honor and one of those laws prohibited the marriages between Jews and citizens of Germany or kindred blood. Then more laws like a second decree implementing the law concerning the change of family name of august 17, 1938 and police decree concerning the marking of Jews of September 1, 1941. These new laws made it easier to identify and capture Jewish people living in Germany in order to send them to concentration camps. At the time, Hitler was thinking of different ways to get rid of the Jewish population in Germany. In the book Hitlers Death Camp by Konnilyn Feig it was said …show more content…
At Auschwitz I, the SS first tested Zyklon B as a device of mass murder. The accomplishment of these experiments led to the adoption of Zyklon B for all the gas chambers at the Auschwitz complex. In The Scroll of Auschwitz by Ber Mark it was said that “the majority of the Jewish victims net their death at Birkenau, which included the gas chambers and four incinerators in which the bodies of gas chambers “processed.” 1,500 Jewish men, woman and children including some of the Sosnowiec deportees.” Another thing that was getting rid of Jews and gypsies rapidly was starvation. Hunger in Auschwitz was universal and unescapable as most of the prisoners barely got enough food to eat while others received no food at all. In the book Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum it said that
“theoretically, each prisoner was entitled to a daily ration of 350 grams of bread, half of a liter of ersatz coffee for breakfast, and one liter of turnip and potato soup for lunch. Also, four times a week each prisoner was to receive a soup ration of 20 grams of meat, but in practice meat rarely reached the bowls from which the prisoners ate. The official daily value of food for prisoners employed in light work stood at 1700 calories and for prisoners doing strenuous work 2150
First it started with the law for the protection of German blood and German honor and one of those laws prohibited the marriages between Jews and citizens of Germany or kindred blood. Then more laws like a second decree implementing the law concerning the change of family name of august 17, 1938 and police decree concerning the marking of Jews of September 1, 1941. These new laws made it easier to identify and capture Jewish people living in Germany in order to send them to concentration camps. At the time, Hitler was thinking of different ways to get rid of the Jewish population in Germany. In the book Hitlers Death Camp by Konnilyn Feig it was said …show more content…
At Auschwitz I, the SS first tested Zyklon B as a device of mass murder. The accomplishment of these experiments led to the adoption of Zyklon B for all the gas chambers at the Auschwitz complex. In The Scroll of Auschwitz by Ber Mark it was said that “the majority of the Jewish victims net their death at Birkenau, which included the gas chambers and four incinerators in which the bodies of gas chambers “processed.” 1,500 Jewish men, woman and children including some of the Sosnowiec deportees.” Another thing that was getting rid of Jews and gypsies rapidly was starvation. Hunger in Auschwitz was universal and unescapable as most of the prisoners barely got enough food to eat while others received no food at all. In the book Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum it said that
“theoretically, each prisoner was entitled to a daily ration of 350 grams of bread, half of a liter of ersatz coffee for breakfast, and one liter of turnip and potato soup for lunch. Also, four times a week each prisoner was to receive a soup ration of 20 grams of meat, but in practice meat rarely reached the bowls from which the prisoners ate. The official daily value of food for prisoners employed in light work stood at 1700 calories and for prisoners doing strenuous work 2150