The Holocaust

The Holocaust

The holocuast is mass murder of over 11-17 million people not just including Jews such as ethnic poles, people with disabilities, soviet civilians and soviet prisoners of war from 1939-45. This action was put into motion to remove these people from civil society as Germans thought they went against what the Germans spoke for. This persecution and genocide was achieved in stages across Europe in countries such as Poland, Russia and Czechoslovakia.

Concentration camps were one of the main ways in dealing with the people this was also known as the final solution. Gas containing pesticide would be filled in to chambers, holding as many people as possible including children taken from their mothers. Also slaves would be used for labor until they died of exhaustion or disease. These techniques were only used after shooting people was not very efficient and had cost a lot of money to manufacture the weapons and bullets.

Before being sent to these extermination camps these people were forced to live in ghettos in cramped environments, where little food was available. People caught helping with the starvation would face severe consequences for example death. These actions had caused the country to be known as the "genocide state", a state for only the fittest in all things.

slaughter was systematically conducted in virtually all areas of Nazi-occupied territory in what are now 35 separate European countries. It was at its worst in Central and Eastern Europe, which had more than seven million Jews in 1939. About five million Jews were killed there, including three million in occupied Poland and over one million in the Soviet Union. Hundreds of thousands also died in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Yugoslavia and Greece. The Wannsee Protocol makes clear that the Nazis also intended to carry out their "final solution of the Jewish question" to Britain, and all of the other