Achieving The Final Solution
At the height of the deportations, up to 12,000 people were gassed and incinerated each day at Auschwitz (Remember.org,2015). Gas chambers were a dreadful part of Holocaust history. Mainly because of their role in the killing of Jews. Gas chambers were built to kill, so they were the most common method for mass murdering the Jews (Projetaladin.org). To kill the Jews, most German extermination camps used Zyklon B to gas the Jews. Gas chambers were a depressing part of the Holocaust because, so many camps utilized them to kill Jews in inhumane ways, and Germans killed innocent people to come up with methods of mass murder.
While in concentration/extermination camps Jews were treated harshly. Then, Jews were killed in gas chambers by being told they would get to clean themselves. As victims were “unloaded” from cattle cars, they were told they had to be disinfected in showers (Holocaust Encyclopedia, 2016). However, these showers were not showers, they were gas chambers. Jews died quite quickly in gas chambers. It took three to fifteen minutes to kill the people in the …show more content…
About six million Jews died in the Holocaust. However, the Germans did not achieve the “Final Solution.” It is very surprising that they didn’t though. With the use of gas chambers alone, so many Jews died. At the height of the deportations, up to 6,000 people could be gassed daily in Auschwitz (Holocaust Encyclopedia,2016). That is a lot of people to die per day. Especially since so many camps had gas chambers. Mainly because gassing was not costly (Holocaust Encyclopedia,2016). Or at least some other method of mass murdering the Jews. Zyklon B did not help either. In just three to fifteen minutes, however many people the Germans crammed into the gas chambers, suffocated and died (Remember.org,2015). Gas chambers played an extensive part in the death of Jews during the
At the height of the deportations, up to 12,000 people were gassed and incinerated each day at Auschwitz (Remember.org,2015). Gas chambers were a dreadful part of Holocaust history. Mainly because of their role in the killing of Jews. Gas chambers were built to kill, so they were the most common method for mass murdering the Jews (Projetaladin.org). To kill the Jews, most German extermination camps used Zyklon B to gas the Jews. Gas chambers were a depressing part of the Holocaust because, so many camps utilized them to kill Jews in inhumane ways, and Germans killed innocent people to come up with methods of mass murder.
While in concentration/extermination camps Jews were treated harshly. Then, Jews were killed in gas chambers by being told they would get to clean themselves. As victims were “unloaded” from cattle cars, they were told they had to be disinfected in showers (Holocaust Encyclopedia, 2016). However, these showers were not showers, they were gas chambers. Jews died quite quickly in gas chambers. It took three to fifteen minutes to kill the people in the …show more content…
About six million Jews died in the Holocaust. However, the Germans did not achieve the “Final Solution.” It is very surprising that they didn’t though. With the use of gas chambers alone, so many Jews died. At the height of the deportations, up to 6,000 people could be gassed daily in Auschwitz (Holocaust Encyclopedia,2016). That is a lot of people to die per day. Especially since so many camps had gas chambers. Mainly because gassing was not costly (Holocaust Encyclopedia,2016). Or at least some other method of mass murdering the Jews. Zyklon B did not help either. In just three to fifteen minutes, however many people the Germans crammed into the gas chambers, suffocated and died (Remember.org,2015). Gas chambers played an extensive part in the death of Jews during the