There are many aspects to the Holocoust. When people think holocoust they automatically think Adolof Hitler and gas chambers. Now, a lot of people imagine the big cement room with spouts sticking out over head. This is one of many forms. I'm going to talk about three major things: the versions of gas chambers, who was gassed, and the whole process in general. .
On September 1, 1939, 61 years agao, Germans invaded Poland, beginning WWII. This invasion presented the opportunity for persecution of Jews. The vast majority of Polands population was Jewish. This being so, Jews became the Nazi's special target. As the years went on the extermination process went from slave labor to Endolosung, which translates to " The Final Solution." You may be wondering, what's the "Final Soloution?" Well the "Final Soltion" was the German's last attempt to wipe out all Jews. The Germans wanted to increase the capacity at which they were killing Jews. So their main objective was to find a way to speed up the extermination process. That's where Gas Chambers come in; they were the "Final Solution." .
The official plan for gas chambers came into play in 1941. By that summer, gas chambers were in full effect.The form of a gas chamber changed over the yeaers. They went from vans, to basements and eventually bigger and more effcient building. The newer buildings made gassing masses of people bossible. The older models could only hold about 600, unlike the newer models that could accommodate 4,000 people. .
The older models of gas chambers didn't exactly make a clean killing. For instance, when using the vans they would place the people inside along with a tube connected to the exhaust pipe. Other forms were basements. They were a bit mroe clean than vans.The germans also noticed that they were able to kill a lot more at one time. So being obsessed with getting rid of as much as possible in very little time they began looking for bigger and better basement.
