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German Death Camps

German Death Camps. When the Killing Started. The genocide (killing) of the Jews did not officially start until after the Wannsee Conference , where the plans for the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" were decided. The meeting was led by Reinhard von Heydrich.

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German Death Camps

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  1. German Death Camps

  2. When the Killing Started • The genocide (killing) of the Jews did not officially start until after the Wannsee Conference, where the plans for the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" were decided. The meeting was led by Reinhard von Heydrich. • The Wannee Conference: On January, 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS, began the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to organize the Final Solution in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million persons. • The exact date of Hitler's order to exterminate the Jews is unknown, but on July 31, 1941, the order was given to begin the process.

  3. What is a Death Camp? How Many? Where? • A death camp is a concentration camp with special apparatus especially designed for mass murder. Six such camps existed: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Tremblinka. All were located in Poland. • Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing center where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed. After an experimental gassing, on September 1941, 850 malnourished and ill prisoners were killed. Mass murder became a daily routine. By the middle of 1942, mass gassing of Jews began at Auschwitz, where extermination was done on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning.

  4. Reinhard Heydrich • Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) was second in importance to Heinrich Himmler in the Nazi SSorganization. Nicknamed "The Blond Beast" by the Nazis, and "Hangman Heydrich" by others, Heydrich was driven by greed and for power. He was a cold, calculating manipulator without human compassion who was the leading planner of Hitler's Final Solution in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate (kill) the entire Jewish population of Europe.

  5. Auschwitz Throughout the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust. The German forces occupying Poland during the Second World War established a concentration camp on the outskirts of the town of Osweicim in 1940. Over the next few years it was expanded into three main camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Auschwitz III-Monowitz and more than forty subcamps.

  6. Treblinka • The first railway of victims arrived at the Treblinka camp on June 22, 1942, and from that time there was a constant stream of fresh arrivals. • In front of the entrance to the gas-chambers there were usually several people standing by with dogs, who drove the victims in. The victims were driven into the gas-chambers with their hands up, so that as many might be squeezed in as possible, and small children were piled on top. • The actual gassing in the chambers lasted about 15 minutes. After the state of the victims had been observed through a special small window, the doors on the outside of the building were opened, and the corpses, being so closely packed inside, fell out of their own weight on to the ground. Instantly the workers removed them, and prepared the place for the next batch.

  7. Belzec • The Belzec death camp was located in the southeastern part of the Lublin District, near Belzec. In early 1940, the Germans set up a number of labor camps in the Belzec district, housing workers building the "Otto-Line", a series of building on the border with the Soviet Union. These Jewish labor camps were disbanded in October 1940. It was rebuilt in connection with Aktion Reinhard, specifically for the murder of Jews.

  8. Bibliography • http://www.auschwitz.dk/Treblinka.htm • http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=auschwitz+iii&ei=utf-8&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=22&ni=21 • http://www.auschwitz-birkenau.org/ • http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/treblinka.html • www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/belzec.html • www.krakow-info.com/auschwit.htm

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