Inhumane

1. Inhumane Blake Rubright http://www.google.com/search?q=the+holocaust&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&tab=wi&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i24l7.140382.144250.0.144360.21.15.0.1.1.2.171.981.11j1.12.0...0.0...1c.1.2LxwJdvB3KE&oq=the+holocaust A pile of dead bodies

2. Auschwitz The largest and most deadly of the Nazi death camps was called Auschwitz. This deadly camp was located in the Polish town of Oswiecim, 37 miles west of Krakow. The thing about Auschwitz is that it was actually three camps. One thing about Auschwitz is that the first gas chamber was erected there. A total of 600 Soviet prisoners of war and 250 other prisoners were gassed. Other than the gassings, there were able-bodied people who passed the first selection were then processed. There were also horrible experiments that were done in Auschwitz. One example was sterilization experiments. Since Auschwitz was so horrible, there were many escapes. If they were caught, they were immediately put to death. Later, there were several postwar trials of Auschwitz staff. Now that you have learned about Auschwitz and the horrible things that were done, hopefully you realize that what happened there was inhumane. “Auschwitz.” The Holocaust.1997. Print.

3. auschwitz http://www.google.com/search?q=the+holocaust&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&tab=wi&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i24l7.140382.144250.0.144360.21.15.0.1.1.2.171.981.11j1.12.0...0.0...1c.1.2LxwJdvB3KE&oq=the+holocaust The Auschwitz camp

4. Death marches These death marches are pretty much explained in the name, they are leading to the prisoners’ death. They were forced against the prisoners of the Holocaust. The death marches were used by the Nazis. The Germans began the marches in 1941. The people in the death marches were herded along highways. There were hundreds of thousands of Soviet Prisoners of War that had to participate in these. Some of the marches went from one camp to another. One incident was thousands of people dying en route from Bessarabia and Bukovina to Transnistria. Also, in 1942, Jews were marched from small ghettos to larger ghettos. Another march was on November 8, when almost 70,000 men, women, and children were marched to the Austrian border. Many did from starvation, cold, and exhaustion. While this was going on, German needed slave labor and more time to complete the “Final Solution”. There was 59 different marches from Nazi concentration camps during the final winter of Nazi rule. In the camps, prisoners were given little or no food or water. There was hardly any time to rest or take care of bodily needs. Many reached the end of their strength and collapsed. Those who paused to rest or fell behind were shot. The things the prisoners had to go through were unthinkable. “Death Marches.” The Holocaust. 1997. Print.

5. Death marches http://www.google.com/search?q=the+holocaust&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&tab=wi&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i24l7.140382.144250.0.144360.21.15.0.1.1.2.171.981.11j1.12.0...0.0...1c.1.2LxwJdvB3KE&oq=the+holocaust An actual death march in progress

6. Gas chambers These so called “showers”, said by the Nazis, were used to murder the Jews. The deadly gas they used in the chambers was call Zyklon-B. Once it was sent out through some sort of box-like structure, it would almost instantaneously kill the people inside. The Zyklon-B would react once oxygen touched it. Mein Kampf has the first Nazi references to gassing the prisoners. In September, 1939, the Nazis ordered that so called “valueless life” should be destroyed. Those people included the chronically ill, the handicapped, and those suffering from mental disorders. The first gas chamber established for this purpose used carbon monoxide as a killing agent. Between December 1939 and August 1941, about 70,000 Germans were killed in five different “euthanasia” centers. One reason for the gas chambers was to make mass murder. They wanted to kill all of European Jewry. So, the Nazis decided that they needed to develop a quicker and more secret means of mass murder. Also, other than just killing the people with the Zyklon-B, experiments with gas were also conducted in Buchenwald. The places these gas chambers were carried out in death camps. Since there was such a vast number of bodies to dispose of, it was very problematic for them. But sadly, they found a way and killed a whole lot of innocent people for no valid reason. The gas chambers and the things that were done in them were cruel and impossible to imagine. “Gas chambers, gas vans, and crematoria.” The Holocaust. 1997. Print.

7. Gas chambers http://www.google.com/search?q=gas+chambers&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&tab=wi&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i24l7.140382.144250.0.144360.21.15.0.1.1.2.171.981.11j1.12.0...0.0...1c.1.2LxwJdvB3KE&oq=gas+chambers One of the gas chambers

8. Medical experiments by the ss doctors These experiments were performed on only some of the prisoners. Now if you were wondering why these doctors would do experiments on other humans, it is because these people were either sadistic or very unfeeling. The doctors thought of their subjects no more than laboratory animals. One experiment was cutting chunks of flesh from fresh corpses and used to grow bacteria in labs. Other experiments were designed to support Nazi theories of racial superiority. In some cases people were shot and then their heads were cut off. One cruel experiment was when they tried to find a way to make brown eyes into blue by injecting them with various pigments. Another reason these people were crazy is that they had a collection of human eyes pinned to a board. There are way more experiments that were done and everyone must know what the Jews and the other prisoners during the Holocaust had to go through. It was just plainly disgusting and horrible. Lace, William. The Death Camps. San Diego, California: Lucent Books Inc.,1998. Print

9. Medical experiments by the ss doctors http://www.google.com/search?q=medical+experiments+of+the+ss+doctors&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&tab=wi&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i24l7.140382.144250.0.144360.21.15.0.1.1.2.171.981.11j1.12.0...0.0...1c.1.2LxwJdvB3KE&oq=medical+experiments+of+the+ss+doctors A doctor conducting a medical experiment on one of his subjects.

10. Star of David Jews were forced to wear the Star of David, or the Jewish Badge, to identify them as Jews in Nazi Germany and in Nazi-occupied countries. By making them wear this, they were trying to make it a means of shaming and humiliating the Jews. Also, they wanted to differentiate them from the community. Later, on December 1, 1939, Jews over the age of 12 living in the General-Government were to wear a white band at least four inches (10 centimeters in width), with a blue Star of David inscribed on it. It enabled the Germans to recognize and harass Jews on sight. Also, it was designed to create a gulf between the Jews and the rest of the population. Jews were still required to wear the badges even when they were separated from the general population by confinement in ghettos. The reaction by the Jews from this situation varied from country to country. A wave of suicides followed the introduction of the Jewish badge in Germany before this had fully began. Also, in western Europe many Jews defied orders and did not wear the yellow badges. What the Germans made the Jews go through was horrifying. “Badge, Jewish.” Learning About The Holocaust. 2001. Print.

11. Star of david http://www.google.com/search?q=star+of+david&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&tab=wi&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i24l7.140382.144250.0.144360.21.15.0.1.1.2.171.981.11j1.12.0...0.0...1c.1.2LxwJdvB3KE&oq=star+of+david The Star of David

12. The Nuremburg trials These trials were held at Nuremburg, Germany. The Nuremburg Trials occurred because there were criminals who committed brutal crimes against humanity. During the trials, the IMT (International Military Tribunal), was jointly established by the U.S., Great Britain, the Soviet Russia, and France. 22 major Nazi war criminals were brought before the IMT. The IMT consisted of eight judges. The judges were two each, U.S., Soviet Russia, Great Britain, and France. These trials were also the first time that leaders of a country were tried by an international court system. The Americans were strongly in favor of the trial. In the end, the IMT’s judgment emphasized the fate of the Jews as the most clear-cut and extreme example of Nazi inhumanity. No other trial in history has covered so much detail. It’s centered them was always the guilt in bringing WWII and the terrible crimes that this led to. These trials only stopped and punished some of the criminals. There were still much more out there committing more inhumane acts against innocent people. The prisoners had gone through so much struggle and innocent people. The prisoners had gone through so much struggle and pain. It was horrible, just horrible. Rice, Earle. The Nuremburg Trials. San Diego: Lucent Books, Inc., 1997. Print. “Nuremburg Trials.” The Holocaust. 1997. Print.

13. The nuremburg trials http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Nuremburt+trials&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&tab=wi&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i24l7.140382.144250.0.144360.21.15.0.1.1.2.171.981.11j1.12.0...0.0...1c.1.2LxwJdvB3KE&oq=The+Nuremburt+trials During the Nuremburg Trials