Nazi Extermination Camps
Will Radko
Mr. Sasser
Acc. English 8
3 February 2015
Nazi Extermination Camps
During the Holocaust, a grand total of eleven million people, about half of the total population in Texas as of 2014, were robbed of their lives because of Nazi extermination and concentration camps (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). Around half of the total people killed were Jews, and the rest were a combination of Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and/or disabled men, woman, and children (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). Although the term “concentration camp” is used as a generic term for all Nazi camps, there were many different types, the worst kind being Nazi extermination camps.
Many horrible atrocities transpired in Nazi camps during WWII, but the most horrible of all that occurred were the extermination camps (more commonly called death camps), which had a sole purpose of exterminating anyone the Nazis deemed “undesirable”, whether they be Jews, homosexuals, or political adversaries (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). These types of camps did not even exist until June 22, 1941, when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, around when mass murder of the Jews began (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). Before the existence of extermination camps, Jews, and other undesirable people, were just gunned down in the middle of the streets – right in front of the public. This caused many problems, such as distrust towards the Nazi campaign (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). In order to solve this “problem”, the Nazis devised a strategy to rid the world of Jews without anyone even knowing, thus began the creation of extermination camps. At first, extermination camps just had soldiers who would gun down the prisoners once they got there, but eventually, this process became too much of a hassle, therefore the Nazis sought after new, stress free methods to exterminate the Jews (“Extermination Camps.” – Key). One autumn, on September 3, 1941,
Mr. Sasser
Acc. English 8
3 February 2015
Nazi Extermination Camps
During the Holocaust, a grand total of eleven million people, about half of the total population in Texas as of 2014, were robbed of their lives because of Nazi extermination and concentration camps (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). Around half of the total people killed were Jews, and the rest were a combination of Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and/or disabled men, woman, and children (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). Although the term “concentration camp” is used as a generic term for all Nazi camps, there were many different types, the worst kind being Nazi extermination camps.
Many horrible atrocities transpired in Nazi camps during WWII, but the most horrible of all that occurred were the extermination camps (more commonly called death camps), which had a sole purpose of exterminating anyone the Nazis deemed “undesirable”, whether they be Jews, homosexuals, or political adversaries (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). These types of camps did not even exist until June 22, 1941, when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, around when mass murder of the Jews began (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). Before the existence of extermination camps, Jews, and other undesirable people, were just gunned down in the middle of the streets – right in front of the public. This caused many problems, such as distrust towards the Nazi campaign (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). In order to solve this “problem”, the Nazis devised a strategy to rid the world of Jews without anyone even knowing, thus began the creation of extermination camps. At first, extermination camps just had soldiers who would gun down the prisoners once they got there, but eventually, this process became too much of a hassle, therefore the Nazis sought after new, stress free methods to exterminate the Jews (“Extermination Camps.” – Key). One autumn, on September 3, 1941,