Brown,+Marcus

Marcus' Page http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/holocaust.html http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/tp/holocaustpictures.htm http://www.deathcamps.info/Leyson/faq.htm http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001286.html In reading through these passages I've come to the conclusion that the Holocaust was a very bad time if you were a Jew or gay or just not German because they would kill you for being different. some more concentration camps and thier links, Extermination camps included [|Belzec], [|Majdanek], [|Sobibor], [|Treblinka], and [|Auschwitz-Birkenau]. http://www.deathcamps.org/belzec/belzec.html http://www.deathcamps.org/lublin/majdanek.html http://www.deathcamps.org/sobibor/sobibor.html http://www.deathcamps.org/treblinka/ http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/auschwitz-birkenau.htm

I mainly stuck to the website http://www.deathcamps.org because i found that the website had great information, and was listed at the top few on the google search which is put in order of usefullness and popularity. i learned alot about the deathcamps from this website, like how in belzec three existing wooden gas chambers were totally inadequate to deal with the number of potential victims. New chambers with larger capacities were necessary. The old wooden gassing hut was dismantled, and in a central location a larger, more solid structure was erected. The second gas chambers were located behind a copse of trees. Due to Belzec's high elevation, this copse shielded the gas chamber building from observers outside the camp area.

The Holocaust is the name given to the murder of millions of Jews, Gypsies etc. by the Nazis during WWII. During the Holocaust, factories of death, such as at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Chelmno and Treblinka, were built to ensure that the mass murders were carried out. Hitler had made it perfectly clear in "Mein Kampf" what he thought of the so-called "untermenschen" (the sub-humans) but to most people, these were the thoughts of a madman and not ones to be taken seriously. However, during "Krystalnacht" in 1938 the Nazis had shown their desire to persecute the Jews and in the war Hitler had the opportunity to carry out his plan to rid Nazi-occupied Europe of all undesirables (from his point of view) and he concentrated his efforts in Eastern Europe. After the attack on Russia, murder squads from the SS moved behind the army and systematically wiped out towns and villages containing Russian people (the same people who had welcomed the German Army into Russia as liberators against the Russian leader Stalin). However, the process was slow and the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, was concerned that the men doing the evil deed were becoming demoralised shooting innocent civilians and he looked for another solution. The lead to the **Final Solution** decided at the infamous Wannsee Conference in 1942 when it was ordered that all Jews in Europe be killed in extermination camps. With due speed, German industrialists were required to design and produce ovens and gas chambers that would enable the mass murders to be carried out quickly and cleanly without involving German personnel too much. The most infamous camps were at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. Here Jews, Eastern Europeans (many of whom were also Jewish), gypsies and the physically and mentally handicapped were brought and murdered. For many years there has been an accepted figure for the number of Jews murdered - six million. As a result of recently found evidence, this figure is now being upgraded and some historians have put the figure as high as 7 to 8 million. To this day mass graves are still found in Russia of Jews murdered by the Einsatzgruppen (SS) and so the final figure may never be truly known. The gypsy community claims that 50% of all gypsies in Europe (21,000 out of 23,000 at Auschwitz, for example) were murdered while the number of handicapped people murdered is not really known. As the war came to a close the Nazis destroyed many of the records they held but the survivors of the extermination camps have given us an accurate portrayal of what ‘life’ was like in these hell-holes. The death camps were seen as factories which had to make profits such as extracting the gold teeth from the victims and selling it and the camp commanders exchanged ideas on how to make their camps more efficient and therefore more profitable.

** Deaths of Jews in the Holocaust ** I personally couldn't beleive how many Jew died at this time, being killed strictly because of their religion and how one the germans' enemy's were getting close to finding out the truth, they tried to eliminate ALL the Jew/evidence which was a massacre. It's amazing that the moment the war was over, the Jews were not to be killed, as if they were worthless to kill now, [] bibliography: wikipedia.org & alot of bits and peices from various sites ( but im at home so i cant look at history sorry )
 * **Poland** || **3,000,000** || **90% of all Jews there** ||
 * **Germany** || **210,000** || **90% of all Jews there** ||
 * **Czech.** || **155,000** || **86% of all Jews there** ||
 * **Holland** || **105,000** || **75% of al Jews there** ||
 * **Hungary** || **450,000** || **70% of all Jews there** ||
 * **Ukraine** || **900,000** || **60% of all Jews there** ||
 * **Roumania** || **300,000** || **50% of all Jews there** ||
 * **Russia** || **107,000** || **11% of all Jews there** ||