Nazis Killing Methods

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The crime of destroying, or committing conspiracy to destroy, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group is known as Genocide. Almost all Jewish people in the world were put to an end by a man named Adolf Hitler and the help of his Nazi army. During world war 2, the Nazis implemented various strategies to exterminate the Jews of Europe. The first method they used was mass shooting. The Jews that were captured or arrested by the Nazis were forced to dig their own graves and then were shot so that they would fall into the grave. This method was not the quickest way to exterminate them since between the periods of April 1942 and November 1943, only 24,000 Jews were killed in an extermination camp called 'Majdanek'. A need for new mass murder technique was expressed by Hans Frank( governor of the General Government) who noted that this many people could not be simply shot. 1.5 million Jews were shot to death in the most brutal way by Nazis. …show more content…
He later explored other ways of killing that were less stressful for the Nazis.The gas van was one of them. Jews were forced into an airtight sealed truck and the exhaust gas from the trucks engine was lead into the truck resulting into the Jews being suffocated. This method was used to make the Nazis killing operations more effective (than by using the mass shootings). These gas vans were developed and run under supervision of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office) and were used to kill about 500,000 people. The gas van had 2 main disadvantages: It was slow meaning that the victims took twenty minutes to die and it was noisy due to the drivers being able to hear the victims screams which they found disturbing and

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