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__**The Holocaust**__ [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []

__Paragraph__ The Holocaust was an absolutely horrible occurrence in the late 30's and 40's. Nazi Germany's goal was to create a thousand year Reich of an elite society. They began an ethnic cleansing of Jewish peoples, Gypsies, homosexuals, the disabled, and any who opposed the Nazi regime. They imprisoned Jews in ghettos. These ghettos were a preliminary step in the annihilation of the Jewish peoples. Nazis had segregated Jews far before this time, and some were already living in ghettos. The ghettos served as a transition point for the death camps, where some were sent to their doom. The Nazis undertook the task of liquidating the ghettos and deporting all Jews to the camps. This was a massive project that went from 1942 to 1944.

Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of innocent people were murdered. Six death camps were constructed in Poland; Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibór, Lublin, and Chelmo. While the camps were still under construction, the Nazis used temporary "gas vans", in which victims would climb into the back of it, be locked in, and be asphyxiated by carbon monoxide gas. These vans were used until Chelmo was completed, and was under use in late 1941.