Later on in the year the next step had taken place. There was mass murders in eastern Europe as special killing squads moved in and mass murdered thousands of Jews, as well as Gypsies, women and children. This was just the start of the plan for the Nazis to kill all the Jewish. After these mass murders the first death camp began in Poland. They gasses Jews and Gypsies.
This carried on but got worse because even more Jews were being deported to ghettos and death camps. By the end of 1942 at least 150,000 Jews had been deported to ghettos or death camps.
In eastern Europe there had been quite a few death camps made, a death camp called Auschwitz was probably the main one. The deportation of German Jews to this camp began. Trains from Slovakia, France, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg and Norway also took Jews to the Auschwitz death camp.
Hitler’s plan was to take all Jewish people to the death camps in eastern Europe and kill them all. In 1943 any remaining Jews that were still living in Germany and Austria lost all legal rights and were forced to surrender to the Nazi secret police.
Now that Hitler had thought he got most of European Jews rounded up in Concentration and death camps he ordered the Nazis to murder them. To kill the Jews the put them in gas chambers and gas vans. They told the Jews that they were going for showers but once the Jews were locked in these chambers they were gases to death. They also got the Jews to line up and be shot at by the Nazis until they were dead. All of this was horrible and was a bad way to die, but I think worst of all was when the Nazis would do medical experiments on the Jews, disabled and Gypsies. The medical experiments involved doing awful stuff to them, they would also die a painful death through it.
The Jewish slave labourers who remained alive were ordered to dig up tens of thousands of graves and burn all the dead bodies to hide the evidence of the Nazi crimes. Most of the death camps were closed and burned down to hide the evidence of the mass murders apart from the Auschwitz death camp and a few others.
Germany invaded Italy, Greece and Hungary and deported all the Jews to the Auschwitz death camp. The plan was to gas all the Jews but this plan was ruined when the Soviet Amy pushed all the German army out of eastern Europe. The Nazis had to destroy all the gas chambers at Auschwitz to hide the evidence.
The Nazis had to resolute to another plan. They forced the remaining inmates of the camps to march towards Germany. This was called a death march. Thousands of Jews died during the journey.
In 1945 the death marches from camps in eastern Europe continued with many more thousand Jews dieing. During this year the death marches were stopped because the Soviet, British and American armies fought their way to Berlin.
The very few survivors from these camps were liberated and released to go.
Hitler committed suicide on the 30th April and Germany surrendered on the 8th March. All action and murders of Jews had been stopped. The Nazis had been stopped. This was all good for the Jewish and Gypsies but they will never forget the horror they had to go through during the death camps. Six million Jews and 200,000 Gypsies had been murdered during the rule Germany and the Nazi’s.
