Killing Centers Research Paper

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Have you ever heard of death camps? Death camps was another word for killing centers. Killing centers were places used to kill the Jews by using gas chambers. There were six killing centers in all. Chelmno, the first killing center. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek/Lublin, and Auschwitz-Birkenau; the biggest killing center. Killing centers are known as “Extermination Camps” , “Death camps” , or “Death factories.” The killing centers were places where the Germans murder the Jews of Poland. They usually kill them by using Zyklon B, Carbon Monoxide, or by shooting. In the killing center, men were separated from the women and children. The Nazis will scan through and decide if you are healthy enough for forced labor. Except the handicapped,…show more content…
The ones that were selected will have to go to the gas chambers. They told them to take a shower and locked them inside and pumped out the poison gas. People usually die within a few minutes after the poison gas was out. “German SS and police murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting” (“Killing Centers”). Killing operations began at the Chelmno killing center, the first killing center, located at the Reich province Wartheland during December 1941. Later on they opened Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Majdanek in order to murder the Jews at Poland. The SS and the police established the first killing center to annihilate, to destroy, the Jewish population. It was the first place where poison gas was used for mass murder to kill the Jews. The Jews walking around feeling hopeless as they entered the gassing room. At Chelmno, a place called the reception area where the police and the higher SS kill people in trucks. Inside the truck, there were exhaust pipes to pump the carbon monoxide gas into the truck. The bodies were then driven into a nearby forest. “The Germans killed at least 152,000 people at Chelmno

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