Why was the final solution needed>?The Nazis established ghettos in occupied Poland. Polish and western European Jews were deported to these ghettos. During the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, mobile killing squads began killing all the Jewish communities. The methods used, mainly shooting or gas vans, were soon thought as inefficient and as a psychological burden on the killers.
The Nazis decided to use extermination camps to carry out genocide. About three million Jews were gassed in extermination camps. Map of concentration campsThis is a map of Europe. The skull symbol represents the death camps while the nazi symbols represents the concentration camps. The star sybbols are the capital cities.
http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/ss/Camps-Map.htm processDeported to workGerman railroad officials used passenger cars for the deportations. German authorities generally did not give the deportees food or water for the journey, even when they had to wait for days on railroad spurs for other trains to pass. Packed in sealed freight cars and suffering from overcrowding, they endured intense heat during the summer and freezing temperatures during the winter. Aside from a bucket, there was no sanitary facility. The stench of urine and excrement added to the humiliation and suffering of the deportees. Lacking food and water, many of the deportees died before the trains reached their destinations. Armed police guards accompanied the transports; they had orders to shoot anyone who tried to escape. The people who were in these trains are deported to the work camps where they have a chance of survival if they do not die of exhaustion during the labor.
Deported to deathThe Jews were ordered to gather in a specific location, usually close to a train station, and to bring with them only a few possessions. During the Aktion anyone that did not follow the order to gather or could not keep pace with the others was shot. At the train station the Jews were loaded into crowded cattle cars without proper ventilation. The cars were sealed from the outside and the Jews were kept in the cars for days without water or food until they reached their destination. Many perished as a result of the conditions on the train. The people who were in these trains are deported immediately to the gas chambers with no chance of survival.
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