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Germany began to use the Final Solution
when Heydrich Himmler ordered that no person of Jewish decent could remain in
one of the camps in Germany, they must be exterminated by a certain
date. Himmler also said If this can’t
be done they are to be sent to ghettos in the other countries. When Germany finally invaded and conquered
the Soviet Union on June 22,1941. A new stage in the Holocaust began. |
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After the Germans conquered the Soviet
Union they were confident of victory.
The Nazis developed a special killing force made up of SS units and
police. They were to kill any Jews they could find in the occupied Soviet
Union territory. The special killing
force took the Jewish town by surprise by acting swiftly. |
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When the Nazis conquer a town. The order the victims to take off their
clothes then march through terrain to were they were to be murdered by guns
and then to be dumped into a single mass grave. |
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Near Kiev at Babi Yar 34000 Jews were
killed in two days. The people who
killed the most of the people killed because training and propaganda hardened
them. They were to vision the victims
as enemies. Some SS had to get drunk
to do their actions, killing. |
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In the concentration camps they used
Zyklon B to kill Jews. The Germans
only used it as punishment at first.
The Germans later used it just to killing Jews. The Zyklon they used was produced at a
firm called Degesch.
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The Nazis established six extermination
camps in Polish territory: Chelmno, Belzec,
Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Final Solution mainly consisted of:
gassing, shooting, random acts of terror, disease, and starvation. Those acts killed about six million Jews,
about two-thirds of Germany’s Jewery.
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Russell Minnis 7th Social Studies Rossville Jr. High Holocaust Project Spring 2003 |