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Killing Centers and The United States

Killing Centers and The United States. Nick Foland. Background. Place where prisoners were sent to die Most efficient way for mass murder Murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews Killed by poison gas or shot 5 definite killing centers; 1 is controversial Re-landscaped to disguise the mass murder.

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Killing Centers and The United States

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  1. Killing Centers and The United States Nick Foland

  2. Background • Place where prisoners were sent to die • Most efficient way for mass murder • Murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews • Killed by poison gas or shot • 5 definite killing centers; 1 is controversial • Re-landscaped to disguise the mass murder

  3. How Hitler did it • Deported prisoners from concentration camps and ghettos to death camps • Said they were being re-located for labor • Given Work permits and told to bring tools • Gave them food on the train • They had no idea

  4. The Camps • Treblinka, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Belzec • These were strictly death camps • Maidanek and Auschwitz were also death camps, had work camps attached to them

  5. Auschwitz-Birkenau • The largest death Camp • Killed up to 6,000 prisoners daily • Gas chamber could hold 2,000 • Told to remove clothing for bath • Workers removed bodies from chamber to crematoria after removing all gold teeth

  6. The United States Role • Did not do much for rescuing prisoners • Hard to get behind enemy lines • “The United States failed to act decisively to rescue victims of the Holocaust.”-ushmm.org • Ruled out using military personnel for rescue missions • Said that the best relief would be a swift end to the war

  7. Bombing Requests • World Jewish Congress and the U.S. government's War Refugee Board made requests to bomb Auschwitz • Requests were denied • Yet they bombed I.G. Farben less than five miles away from Auschwitz • Said it would have hindered killing operations and shown that we care about their fate

  8. Works Cited • http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/dmeier/Holocaust/killing.html • http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005145 • http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2009/04/auschwitz-birkenau.html

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