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p.2 The Nazi extermination camps The Auschwitz camp was basically a place of extermination. In some camps, the death rate was lowered from 1943 in an effort to conserve the labor force. More than 50 percent of the people interned in Auschwitz died from starvation, exhausting work, diseases, along with executions, tortures, and punishments. In Auschwitz, new transports, mostly of Jews, arrived continuously and kept the camp supplied with laborers; human life never had any great significance. Adolf Hitler initiated the T4 euthanasia program in 1939. Many of the camps employed the T4. It was to kill incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, and elderly people. While it was said to be officially discontinued in 1941, it continued covertly until 1945. Auschwitz handled up to 90,000 prisoners at any one time. Between March 1944 and July 1944 , 434,000 of the remaining 825,000 Hungarian Jews were deported on trains, mostly to Auschwitz, where the great majority of them were murdered immediately. Auschwitz, the largest and most lethal of the camps, used Zyklon-B . Its poison-gas chambers had room for 2,000 at one time, and 12,000 could be gassed and incinerated each day. Jews made up 90 percent of the victims of Auschwitz; other groups were also sent to the camp. Historians estimate that around 1.1 million people, the majority being Jews, perished in Auschwitz during the less than 5 years of its existence. The second most numerous group, comprising approximately 70,000, was the Poles, and the third most numerous, around 21,000, were the Roma and Sinti. Some of the early camps were Dachau, which was established on March 10, 1933, just a few weeks after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor. Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp in Germany. Built at the edge of the town of Dachau, about 12 miles north of Munich, it became the model and training centre for all others. Mauthausen-Gusen was established in April, 1938, shortly after Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. It became one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, located near the Danube River, 12 miles east of Linz, Austria. It was the main camp with nearly 100 subcamps located throughout Austria. Having 190,000 inmates, half died; 38,000 of the dead were Jews. Mauthausen had a gas chamber and gas vans operating from April 1944 to January 1945. Hartheim was opened in 1939. It was a killing center that murdered those with physical and mental disabilities by poison gas and lethal injection as a part of the Nazis ' Aktion T4 of forced euthanasia. The center was located in a castle in northern Austria, near the city of Linz. Chelmnobegan in December 1941,located on the Ner river, in western Poland. It was the first of the many extermination camps, where gassing began on December 8, 1941, employing gas vans whose carbon-monoxide exhaust asphyxiated passengers. The Nazis used gas vans for their mass murders. These vans were hermetically sealed trucks with engine exhaust diverted to the interior compartment. https://brilliantmaps.com/nazi-germanys-concentration-death-camps/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazi_concentration_camps Chelmno acquired a special reputation for its “efficient” bone-crushing machine (Knockenmüle). Belzecbegan in 1940, locatedin the Lublin district of Poland. The number of deaths is up to 600,000 people, most of whom were Jews. The Germans closed the camp in December 1942. When the Belzec extermination camp was shut down in 1943, the Jews held there were shifted to Majdanek. Majdanek was located in Lublin, Poland, opened in October 1942. The Nazis added gas chambers to Majdanek and began killing Jews upon arrival. Majdanek was not an extermination camp, but a prison and a work camp. The Nazis added a large crematorium containing five ovens a year after, having seven gas chambers, two wooden gallows, and some 227 structures. Some 500,000 persons from 28 countries passed through Majdanek, with 360,000 of them dying there. The Nazis also added nearby branch camps, such as Travniki. (When it came time, they were able to erase all traces of the camps. They evacuated Majdanek burning documents, along with several buildings, and the crematoria). Himmler ordered the mass execution to suppress any resistance. In one day on Nov. 3, 1943, 18,400 Jews were shot and left in ditches, the largest single-location massacre of the Holocaust. The Babi Yar Massacre outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 29 and 30, 1941, had mass shootings of civilians, killing 34,000 Jewish men, women, and children in two days by Nazi Einsatzgruppen units, aided by local collaborators. Triblinka was located in Poland, 2.5 miles from the railway station in December 1941. It began as a small forced-labour camp and transformed into one of the main extermination camps. In July 1942, Massive deportations from Warsaw began. Over the next two months, the Nazis deported more than 250,000 Jews from Warsaw in freight cars to their deaths at Treblinka. They also brought Jews from other areas of Poland to the death camp. Between July 1942 and October 1943, about 850,000 people were murdered, including more than 800,000 Jews. Sobibor was built in 1942, in a forest near Lublin, with access to railway lines to facilitate easy transportation. It had stationary gas chambers, disguised as showers, to eliminate victims with carbon monoxide gas. Within a year, its gas chambers killed a total of about 250,000 Jews, who were mainly from Poland and areas of Slovakia, Austria, and the Soviet Union. Of the Jews in Poland in 1940, about 3 million perished in the Holocaust, and 369,000 survived. Bergen-Belsen was located in Saxony in northern Germany and originally intended as an “exchange camp,” where Jewish hostages were held to exchange them for German prisoners of war held overseas. 50,000 inmates died there, which included Roma Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and gays. After June 1941, it included the German invasion of the Soviet Union for world conquest. Nearly 20,000 were Soviet prisoners of war . They died by Overcrowding, lack of food, poor sanitary conditions, and disease outbreaks of typhus, tuberculosis, and typhoid etc. Buchenwaldwas located inWeimar, Germany, and was built in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps. It housed Jews, Poles, Slavs, and Roma. After Kristallnacht , the German SS sent nearly 10,000 Jews. The camp had the capacity to hold 8,000 prisoners and had 2,400 transfers from the sub-camps, including those from Bad Sulza, Sachsenburg, and Lichtenburg. They had a railway station and a crematorium, of course, to make more room. Women were also brought to Buchenwald from Ravensbrück in 1941 to be forced into sexual slavery at the camp's brothel. Ravensbrück, located 50 miles north of Berlin, was a camp for women, opened in 1939 with a capacity for 6,000. Between May 1939 and June 1944, 43,000 women were brought there; that number doubled after women were evacuated from Auschwitz in January 1945. The camp, which had 34 satellite divisions, became a slave-labor center, where, among other tasks, women made electrical parts for the V-1 and V-2 rockets. Cruel medical experiments were also practiced there. Gas chambers and crematorium were added to the camp toward the end of the war. The SS often shot prisoners and either buried them or brought them into the crematorium to remove the evidence. Many of the smaller facilities, such as Sonnenstein, were used as Euthanasia Clinics that had killed thousands of Men, women, and children. All of these camps had some degree of Nazi imprisonment, persecution, and murder. The Hadamar killing centre was part of the Nazi involuntary euthanasia program known as Aktion T4. It was a facility for mass sterilizations and mass murder of “undesirable” members of German society, which included those with physical and mental disabilities (those they labeled as such). 15,000 German citizens were transported to the hospital and murdered there, most by gas chambers and the rest by lethal injection and starvation. The facility was located in Hadamar, near Limburg in Hessen, and was operational from 1939 until the German surrender in 1945. It is reported that the Nazis established at least 42,000 to 44,000 camps that started in 1933. There were 23 main concentration camps, six of which were famous, located in Poland. Fewer than 10 camps were in Germany, mainly on the outskirts. These included ghettos between 1933 and 1945, where they used the people as slaves until they wanted to rid them of living. The total number is estimated to be 980 concentration camps designated explicitly for extermination, along with 1,000 POW camps; 500 brothels, etc. Not all the Jewish people who were brought to these camps were put in the gas chambers. Some were starved, some were worked to death, some died from disease, besides being gassed; it was all intentional death. Charts & Statistics of the Kupferberg Holocaust CenterDo the Math Some say the number of people killed could rise in the millions, while others say it should be diminished to 5.1 million.Understand that if there were only 100,000 killed per month, murdered within only 6 major camps, this would be 1.2 million a year. Which is approximately 16,600 a month in each camp, (minimally, over 500 a day). In 4 years, it would equal 4.8 million in these camps only. These are moderate estimates, as there were far more than 6 camps. And much more activity in their murderous assault throughout Europe. Many never made it to the camp. Some who were shot on the spot are not counted as death camp casualties. We know that 70 million people were killed during the war, so it is reasonable to think those who were targeted would have high numbers. There is no way to soften any of this. Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was upfront about his plans, but so many did not take his words seriously. Hitler backed up his words with his actions, leading an army that was aggressive in capturing and eliminating his enemies. The Nazis knew what they were doing, but they did not tell the world so that they could go unchallenged. But the world eventually found out! This led to at least 70 million people or more being killed in World War 2. Why are there still people who deny that those who were specifically targeted would not amount to 6 million, with so much proof, is baffling! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chamber https://holocaustcentrenorth.org.uk/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-first-nazi-gas-chambers/ How the exterminations went- https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/auschwitz-and-shoah/the-extermination-procedure-in-the-gas-chambers/?ref=forward-kentucky A well done article from the holocaust encyclopedia https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gassing-operations Even Al Jazeera agrees with this number and adds that the Nazis established more than 44,000 camps that served a range of purposes across Germany and its occupied territories from 1939 to 1945. “Auschwitz was like hell on Earth,” Stojka said. “The smell of burning flesh was constant, and it became part of our lives – part of our breath.” Hitler's extermination expert, Rudolf Hoess, wrote in Commandant of Auschwitz : “When a strong wind was blowing, the stench of burning flesh was carried for many miles and caused the whole neighborhood to talk about the burning of the Jews.” He notes, of still another camp, that whenever a bus with victims drove past, even the German children chortled in the street: “There comes the murder box again!” (A Woman rides the Beast, Dave Hunt) Recent political developments in Eastern Europe have drawn back the iron curtain of secrecy that for 40 years concealed knowledge of Nazi concentration camps. One result has been that newly available documents from the Soviet Union listing thousands of names of victims of the Holocaust have reignited the historical controversy over an accurate estimate of the total number of Jews killed in the Holocaust. They are still uncovering records that were left. In West Germany, the Red Cross recently completed a month-long project of putting on microfilm 46 bound volumes from Auschwitz called “Sterbebuch,” or “death books,” which contain detailed data of about 70,000 prisoners who perished in the Polish death camp. A full page in the death books was devoted to each victim listed, complete with an SS doctor’s certification of the cause of death and the exact hour and minute of expiration. This does not sound like a record of those put to death but died from other circumstances. The massacre by Hitler and the Nazi regime had so outraged the world that afterwards an international tribunal had been assembled in Nuremberg to try those responsible for these unspeakable racist “war crimes.” Some say you can’t trust the stories from the survivors because they are Jews, they are partisan. Well, where else would one get the truth from except the first-hand witnesses who were there and survived? Are you going to trust the stories from soldiers who were in charge of the death camps? Or the Jews that they forced into being part of their killings? You certainly cannot trust those who are prejudiced against the Jews; those who were part of Germany's government were partisan and will soften what they did to save their own skin? Survivors of the Jewish holocaust were close to the events that were described to the world. That very fact puts them in the best position to know what happened. They were there, and it happened to them. How I Survived Four Different Concentration Camps. https://www.jewishgen.org/forgottencamps/general/listeeng.html http://www.nazi-germany-third-reich-covers.com/ListOfNaziConcentrationCamps.pdf how did they arrive at the numbers in the holocaust - Red Cross documents do not undermine official Holocaust death toll – Full Fact s 200,000 Holocaust survivors are living today. The genocide of millions of Jews by the Nazis is the most-documented extermination of humanity in human history . Although no document lists all the names of all the Jewish victims, there is enough conclusive evidence that about six million Jews were murdered, regardless of the naysayers' many videos. Jerusalem built Yad Vashem (Holocaust Museum) to keep before the world's conscience a reminder of what took place. The saying ‘never again’ refers to the millions of Jews killed by Hitler. Yad Vashem has compiled 5 million names of Jews murdered in the Holocaust. History will forever condemn the slaughtering of millions at the hands of the Nazi regime. However, not all; some applaud their inhuman acts, showing that they have no humanity left in them. Many consciences are seared ignoring what had already taken place, and some want to see it happen again. Except this time, it will be far more extensive and far worse, as this is now a global situation, not just from a single country. Too many are willing to allow or make this happen all over again. Being promoted by those whose religion is spread throughout the world. The Shoah, meaning 'the catastrophe'(in Hebrew) However, this time, the majority of Jews are not willing to let this happen again. Anti-Jewish harassment is found in 94 countries.2024- Number of violent anti-Semitic attacks in selected countries. The United Kingdom was the country where the highest number of anti-Semitic violent attacks occurred, followed by Germany. There were 8,873 antisemitic incidents across the United States in 2023, a 140% bump from the 3,698 incidents in 2022. Increasing each year. The saying, no Zionism, means no country for the Jews. This continued assault on the Jewish people and on their homeland is spoken of in the bible in specific ways. From a Biblical perspective, if the Jews are not in their homeland, prophecy cannot be fulfilled. This is the primary spiritual influence from God’s enemy on people who have no idea what they are saying or why. If they can’t be eliminated, they should be taken from their land. In the Holocaust, there were Gentiles who helped to hide the Jews from being exterminated; this will be repeated on a massive worldwide scale in the future. Jesus speaks of those who unknowingly helped his people in Matthew 25:40, “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren(the Jewish people, and those who believe), ye have done it unto me.” This will be especially true of how they treat God's people, his physical brethren, during the coming Tribulation which Jesus commends them for when He returns.
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