Extermination Camp Holocaust
Joao Neto
6B
Kathy Najafi
07/27/2011
Abstract Extermination camp (in German) was the term applied to a group of camps built by Nazi German during World War II with the express purpose of killing the "enemies" of the Nazi regime (Jews, Roma Gypsies, prisoners of Soviet war, as well as Polish and other). All this is part of the Holocaust and called Final Solution of the Jewish question, the plan to (in the words of Nazi) “German lands clean of the Jewish people”. These fields are also known as "death camps". The most common method of execution in these camps was by Zyklon B a gas that was used in the famous gas chambers, although many prisoners were executed by firing squad and other means. The dead bodies were destroyed in crematoria …show more content…
Of the 1.1 million Jews who were deported to Auschwitz, approximately 100,000 Jews left the camp alive. Many of these survivors succumb during the march to the west or during the stay in the spring of 1945 in concentration camps like Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen. Yet, thousands have seen the release, after the war and testified about her ordeal. And some did during the war. The most important report in time of war on the German genocide against the Jews, sponsored by the Refugee Council of War was written by two escapees from Auschwitz, describing the installation of extermination room in some detail. The Gentiles 100,000 survivors of Auschwitz, including the Poles, with 75,000, were the largest group, all testified that they could use the field as a center of Jewish …show more content…
The other reason to support this theory was that, only when the death-row inmates were kept alive for longer, a new society was developed. This was the main reason why this was the only death camp in which approximately 100.000 Jews left the camp alive. Because of this reasons, few ethical theorists or religious thinkers have paid attention to the highly important political fact that this field was in fact a new form of human society.
References
"Auschwitz Death Camp." Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies : University of Minnesota. Web. 27 July 2011. <http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/memorials/auschwitz/>.
"Auschwitz." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Web. 27 July 2011. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189>.
"Auschwitz — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts." History.com — History Made Every Day — American & World History. Web. 27 July 2011. <http://www.history.com/topics/auschwitz>.
"Auschwitz-Birkenau - Home Page - History." Auschwitz-Birkenau - Home Page - Museum. Web. 27 July 2011. <http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/h/>.
6B
Kathy Najafi
07/27/2011
Abstract Extermination camp (in German) was the term applied to a group of camps built by Nazi German during World War II with the express purpose of killing the "enemies" of the Nazi regime (Jews, Roma Gypsies, prisoners of Soviet war, as well as Polish and other). All this is part of the Holocaust and called Final Solution of the Jewish question, the plan to (in the words of Nazi) “German lands clean of the Jewish people”. These fields are also known as "death camps". The most common method of execution in these camps was by Zyklon B a gas that was used in the famous gas chambers, although many prisoners were executed by firing squad and other means. The dead bodies were destroyed in crematoria …show more content…
Of the 1.1 million Jews who were deported to Auschwitz, approximately 100,000 Jews left the camp alive. Many of these survivors succumb during the march to the west or during the stay in the spring of 1945 in concentration camps like Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen. Yet, thousands have seen the release, after the war and testified about her ordeal. And some did during the war. The most important report in time of war on the German genocide against the Jews, sponsored by the Refugee Council of War was written by two escapees from Auschwitz, describing the installation of extermination room in some detail. The Gentiles 100,000 survivors of Auschwitz, including the Poles, with 75,000, were the largest group, all testified that they could use the field as a center of Jewish …show more content…
The other reason to support this theory was that, only when the death-row inmates were kept alive for longer, a new society was developed. This was the main reason why this was the only death camp in which approximately 100.000 Jews left the camp alive. Because of this reasons, few ethical theorists or religious thinkers have paid attention to the highly important political fact that this field was in fact a new form of human society.
References
"Auschwitz Death Camp." Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies : University of Minnesota. Web. 27 July 2011. <http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/memorials/auschwitz/>.
"Auschwitz." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Web. 27 July 2011. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189>.
"Auschwitz — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts." History.com — History Made Every Day — American & World History. Web. 27 July 2011. <http://www.history.com/topics/auschwitz>.
"Auschwitz-Birkenau - Home Page - History." Auschwitz-Birkenau - Home Page - Museum. Web. 27 July 2011. <http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/h/>.