Under the Nazi Regime, Jews were forced into ghettos on a mass level, and then sent on to concentration camps. Many never made it into the camps, because they were killed upon arrival. Those who were chosen to live became slaves. Trapped with barbed wire fences and guard towers were the Jews who slaved 12 hours every day wearing nothing but rags. Death lurked around every corner, whether it take the form of a bullet, random execution, starvation, illness, or SS brutality. The sick and the old were often gassed or murdered by lethal injection. If one was to look at a photograph of the life of the Jews within the concentration camp that person would see skeletons wearing skin infected by Typhus. Those who had disabilities were almost always immediately killed, unless the SS saw them as candidates for experimentation at the hands of Dr. Josef Mengele. Men and women both were often beaten to serve as examples to scare obedience into the captives. At least 500,000 are estimated to have died in the concentration camps due to disease, hunger, or labor. Within the extermination camps, the Nazis’ ‘Final Solution to the Jewish Question’ resulted in Jewish inmates being marched into gas chambers where they were exposed to Zyklon B. 3 million men and women were murdered, and their corpses reduced to
Under the Nazi Regime, Jews were forced into ghettos on a mass level, and then sent on to concentration camps. Many never made it into the camps, because they were killed upon arrival. Those who were chosen to live became slaves. Trapped with barbed wire fences and guard towers were the Jews who slaved 12 hours every day wearing nothing but rags. Death lurked around every corner, whether it take the form of a bullet, random execution, starvation, illness, or SS brutality. The sick and the old were often gassed or murdered by lethal injection. If one was to look at a photograph of the life of the Jews within the concentration camp that person would see skeletons wearing skin infected by Typhus. Those who had disabilities were almost always immediately killed, unless the SS saw them as candidates for experimentation at the hands of Dr. Josef Mengele. Men and women both were often beaten to serve as examples to scare obedience into the captives. At least 500,000 are estimated to have died in the concentration camps due to disease, hunger, or labor. Within the extermination camps, the Nazis’ ‘Final Solution to the Jewish Question’ resulted in Jewish inmates being marched into gas chambers where they were exposed to Zyklon B. 3 million men and women were murdered, and their corpses reduced to