How Did Hitler Use Concentration Camps In Ww2

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In World War 2,Adolf Hitler gave the orders to kill any Jew,Jehovah Witness,Gypsy and that wiped out a lot of the population of people inside Europe.They used many different methods and many different places to kill the many people of Europe, one facility that they were killed and tortured in, these facilities were called Concentration camps. In 1933 Adolf Hitler was brought into power of Nazi Germany and he made WW2 happen.
When Hitler was a young boy his father died.When he was in school he was a bad child and when he got older he was in WW1 and after that he went to prison and he wrote a book about how he felt and what his beliefs were. He also predicted a war and after he got out he fulfilled his prediction.While Hitler was in prison he wrote a book about how he felt about the Jews and what his beliefs were. After he was released from prison he fulfilled his prediction.He became the person that the Germans worshiped and later after he married his wife he killed
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They gassed many people during the whole time period of the Holocaust.They gassed them inside the camp's gas chambers. Most of the concentration camps had gas chambers.They put many people into the chamber as soon as they got off of the cattle cars from their transport from another camp.They put put dozens of people into the gas chambers and it would kill them faster because they would suffocate and die faster.The gas chambers are what killed most of the prisoners at the concentration camps.It was a slow process but they managed to kill 6,000 people a day inside of the gas chambers. And while the camps were going the Jews were constantly being brought to a new camp from the world that was still free and when they were brought in they took their belongings and they went straight to the gas chambers or straight to work and they got very little food and sometimes they got no

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