Germany

Germany

Hitler used his new position to promote his own plans for German expansion and so-called racial purification.
World War I left Germany in a complicated situation that Adolf Hitler could exploit. German leaders had never admitted how badly the war was going in the west. ====Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933. He was not elected by a majority. No more than 40 percent of German voters ever voted for the National Socialist Party. He was appointed by a coalition of German nationalists, conservatives, industrialists, and military men who thought they could control him and use him for their own purposes. They were mistaken. By forcing his rule on the people of Germany, Hitler is controlling aspects of their lives.====



Auschwitz: The largest mass murder in all of humanity. It is a death camp where more people died on that one single spot than the British and the Americans lost militarily in the course of the entire war. It was established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps, all of which deployed incarcerated prisoners at forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. The camps were located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow. The torture used in Auschwitz is an example of total war and Hitler is scapegoating the Jewish population in Germany by holding them in camps.



The SS authorities established three main camps near the Polish city of Oswiecim: Auschwitz I in May 1940; Auschwitz II (also called Auschwitz-Birkenau) in early 1942; and Auschwitz III (also called Auschwitz-Monowitz) in October 1942.



Auschwitz was constructed to serve three purposes: 1) to incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime and the German occupation authorities in Poland for an indefinite period of time; 2) to have available a supply of forced laborers for deployment in SS-owned, construction-related enterprises, and 3) to physically eliminate small, targeted groups of the population whose death was determined by the SS and police authorities to be essential to the security of Nazi Germany.

Auschwitz had a gas chamber and crematorium. At first, SS engineers constructed an "improvised" gas chamber in the basement of the prison block. SS physicians carried out medical experiments in the hospital, Barrack (Block) 10. They conducted pseudoscientific research on infants, twins, and dwarfs, and performed forced sterilizations, castrations, and hypothermia experiments on adults. The best-known of these physicians was SS Captain Dr. Josef Mengele. Between the crematorium and the medical-experiments barrack stood the "Black Wall," where SS guards executed thousands of prisoners. This total control of the Jewish population was Hitler's way of scapegoating them.



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