Holocaust in Numbers
The holocaust was the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their allies. This death count only accounts for the Jewish people. On top of this 6 million deaths are the countless other executions of:
Soviet prisoners of war 3,000,000
Polish Catholics 3,000,000
Serbians 700,000
Roma(Gypsies), Sinti, and Lalleri 250,000
Germans (political, religious, and Resistance) 80,000
Germans (handicapped) 70,000
Homosexuals 12,000
Jehovah’s Witnesses 2500
Soviet prisoners of war 3,000,000
Polish Catholics 3,000,000
Serbians 700,000
Roma(Gypsies), Sinti, and Lalleri 250,000
Germans (political, religious, and Resistance) 80,000
Germans (handicapped) 70,000
Homosexuals 12,000
Jehovah’s Witnesses 2500
Methods of Killing
Mass Shootings- the jewish civilians would be captured or arrested, then forced to dig their own graves, or placed along large massgraves. Then they would be shot into these holes. The German Einsatzgruppen who was their "death squad" were the ones who would be responsible for the mass shootings of the civilians, and accounted for the murders of 1.5 million jews in the occupied parts of the soviet union.
Gasing trucks- the Jews were forced into a sealed truck, and then exhaust gas from
the engine was led into the truck. this would make them suffocate.
Extermination camps- at these camps they would have gas chambers where the victims were forced into the gas chamber, the door was closed and exhaust fumes were led into the room. Gas chambers were constructed at Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz I, and other camps. A gas chamber was constructed later at Dachau, but it was never used. At least 3 million Jews were killed in the extermination camps that had been constructed with the single purpose of killing Jews as effectively, quickly and secretly as possible.
Gasing trucks- the Jews were forced into a sealed truck, and then exhaust gas from
the engine was led into the truck. this would make them suffocate.
Extermination camps- at these camps they would have gas chambers where the victims were forced into the gas chamber, the door was closed and exhaust fumes were led into the room. Gas chambers were constructed at Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz I, and other camps. A gas chamber was constructed later at Dachau, but it was never used. At least 3 million Jews were killed in the extermination camps that had been constructed with the single purpose of killing Jews as effectively, quickly and secretly as possible.
More Camps
This photo shows where the camps were and
how the Nazis transported the Jews from the
Ghettos to their extermination/concentration
camps. Almost all of the extermination camps where located in Poland due to the high population of Jewish people. Having the extermination camps in Poland made it easier and more efficient for the Germans to exterminate the Jewish race instead of transporting them all the way back to Germany.
how the Nazis transported the Jews from the
Ghettos to their extermination/concentration
camps. Almost all of the extermination camps where located in Poland due to the high population of Jewish people. Having the extermination camps in Poland made it easier and more efficient for the Germans to exterminate the Jewish race instead of transporting them all the way back to Germany.
The first concentration camps were made right after Adolf Hitler came into power. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939 unleashing WW2, Germany had already made 6 concentration to hold and kill there prisoners. These camps were:
Dachau (founded 1933, also the first internment camp made in Germany).
Sachsenhausen (1936)
Buchenwald (1937)
Flossenbürg in northeastern Bavaria near the 1937 Czech border (1938)
Mauthausen, near Linz, Austria (1938)
Ravensbrück, the women's camp, established in Brandenburg Province, southeast of Berlin (1939)
As Germany conquered much of Europe in the years 1939–1941, the Germans established a number of new concentration camps to incarcerate increased numbers of political prisoners, resistance groups, and groups deemed racially inferior, such as Jews and Roma (Gypsies). Among these new camps were:
Gusen (1939)
Neuengamme (1940)
Gross-Rosen (1940)
Auschwitz (1940, was also the largest extermination camp during the Holocaust and had the greatest death count estimated at 1.1Million)
Natzweiler (1940)
Stutthof (1942)
Majdanek (February 1943)
Dachau (founded 1933, also the first internment camp made in Germany).
Sachsenhausen (1936)
Buchenwald (1937)
Flossenbürg in northeastern Bavaria near the 1937 Czech border (1938)
Mauthausen, near Linz, Austria (1938)
Ravensbrück, the women's camp, established in Brandenburg Province, southeast of Berlin (1939)
As Germany conquered much of Europe in the years 1939–1941, the Germans established a number of new concentration camps to incarcerate increased numbers of political prisoners, resistance groups, and groups deemed racially inferior, such as Jews and Roma (Gypsies). Among these new camps were:
Gusen (1939)
Neuengamme (1940)
Gross-Rosen (1940)
Auschwitz (1940, was also the largest extermination camp during the Holocaust and had the greatest death count estimated at 1.1Million)
Natzweiler (1940)
Stutthof (1942)
Majdanek (February 1943)