It's for a school essay. I know that gas chambers were used most of the time, but what else were used to kill the Jews?
2007-04-20 06:24:54 · 10 answers · asked by Captain Galactic 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Did you know that gas chambers were developed because Eichmann didn't want the SS soldiers to undergo the trauma of direct killings?
Here are some ways they Jews and other groups like gypsies and Polish people.
Gas chambers disguised as large group showers using the poison gas Zyklon-B (4 million deaths in death camps overall)
Mobile gas-vans (Carbon monoxide poisoning) (2 million deaths)
Firing squads
Direct shooting
Starvation
Disease
Medical experimentation
Extreme work
Exposure to elements
Shooting people next to mass graves so they would fall in.
Gathering people into a group so they could shoot them one after the other.
Poisoning.
2007-04-20 07:06:13 · answer #1 · answered by Behaviorist 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Holocaust Executions
2016-11-16 16:31:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
William Shirer covers it pretty well in his Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich. At first they were shot and buried in mass graves. This was hard on the solders and to labor intensive. Then the played around with a few other techniques such as vans with the exhaust feed into the rear where there victims were carried. Lastly they developed the gas chambers and crematoriums.
It's all there in the book in horrible detail.
2007-04-20 06:43:38 · answer #3 · answered by Herodotus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The gas chambers and execution squads were only a part of the planned genocide of not only the Jews, but gypsies, Russian POWs, and even infirm German citizens. Forced marches, forced labor, starvation, and deplorable conditions in the camps which lead to disease all contributed. For an excellent overview and analysis of the subject, check the link below.
2007-04-20 06:39:03 · answer #4 · answered by PJ 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Was your teacher in the right mind ? Six million Jews for no good reason and some other people too.
2007-04-20 06:55:38 · answer #5 · answered by sparkles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hanging, firing squads, including machine gun firing squads, and burning to death in ovens. BABI YAR by Anatoly Kusnetsov is an excellent book on the holocaust written by one who escaped from a concentration camp AND, believe it or not, a firing squad where hundreds were shot to death by machine guns. Riveting story.
Chow!!
2007-04-20 07:54:02 · answer #6 · answered by No one 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only method I don't see already listed is one I think I remember from Elie Wiezel's "Night" was where victims were marched into large fire pits.
2007-04-20 06:59:23 · answer #7 · answered by jordanmclonghorn 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You may wish to check out the educational and instructive Yahoo! group:Remember_The_Holocaust@yahoogroups.com
2007-04-21 07:49:27 · answer #8 · answered by Lejeune42 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firing squads.
Ukrainian concentration camp quards with big sabers.
Hunger.
2007-04-20 06:29:46 · answer #9 · answered by gospodar_74 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Starvation ; weapons ; and ghoulish "medical" experiments .
2007-04-20 06:50:20 · answer #10 · answered by missmayzie 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋