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Why were Jews living in the Ghettos?
By Mary Fried

The Nazis created the Ghettos to as a provisional measure to separate, segregate and gain control over the Jews.This was so the leadership of the Nazi’s in Berlin argued over what they could do to eliminate the Jewish people. In Berlin’s Ghetto, the Nazis used it to keep the Jews in close proximity while Nazis figured out how to eliminate them. The Nazis used one bullet for each person they killed in the Ghettos. The dead where put in huge graves located nearby the Ghettos. Some Jews were transported, often by train, to places where they were murdered.The police authorities and German Schutzstaffel Squadron transported a small amount of Jews from ghettos to concentration camps or forced-labor camps.The final solution, which started in 1941, was a plan to murder all the European Jews. They would do this by shooting ghetto residents in mass graves located nearby the town Ghetto, deported them(usually by train) to [|killing centers] where the Nazis would kill them.

During the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the annihilation and the segregation of the Jews was in stages. In 1933, after the Nazi party accumulated to power in Germany. Anti- Jewish legislations, economic boycotts, the violence of Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass"), and the violence of the pogrom were produced due to racism. All of these practices were used to isolate Jews from society and to drive them out of Germany. In September 1939, the German invasion of Poland(the beginning of World War II began. Anti- Jewish policies continued to build up so eventually, most Jews were imprisoned (Ghettos) and murdered for European Jewry. In June of 1941, Nazis of the Soviet Union SS, police authorities, and mobile killing units started to have massive killing plans that they executed. These were aimed at entire Jewish communities. During autumn of 1941, the SS and the police began using mobile gas vans. These trucks, which were paneled, with the exaust pipe reconstructed the pump’s poisonous carbon monoxide gas in small spaces, killing people locked inside. This was another method they used to eliminate Jewry.

During 1941 in autumn, Heinrich Himmler, the SS chief, assigned German General Odilo Globocnik with the realization of a systematic plan that was to kill the Jews of Generalgouvernement. Globocnik was the leader for the Lublin District. [|Operation Reinhard] was code name given to this plan, which was named after Heydrich. Hydrich was assassinated by Czech partisans of May 1942. Three killing centers were established in Poland as part of Operation Reinhard. They were called Belzec Sobibor, and [|Treblinka]. They were used for the purpose of mass murder and nothing other than that. The Majdenek camp was used every once in a while as a killing site for the Jews that lived in the Generalgouvernement. The Majdanek had gas chambers, which the SS murdered tens of thousands of Jews with. They were forced laborers too weak for work. 152,00 people, mostly Jews, were killed by the SS and police. This included a few Roma, which were Gypsies, in gas vans at the [|Chelmno] killing area. This was about thirty miles northwest of the Lodz concentration camp. In the spring of 1942, Himmler officially made [|**Auschwitz II**] (Auschwitz-Birkenau) as a killing facility. One million Jews from different European countries were murdered by the SS authorities at Aushcitz- Birkenau. 2, 700,000 Jews in the killing centers were murdered by German SS and police by asphyxiation by poisonous gas or shooting. In the “Final Solution” called for murder of all European Jews. This was done by shooting, gassing and by other means. Six million Jewish men, women and children were killed during the Holocaust. This was two thirds of the Jews living in Europe.

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