licy of murder began to operate with no restrictions. The armies in Russia were followed by an "extermination squad" who shot hundreds of thousands of people, the majority being Jewish. The Nazis had already setup thousands of concentration camps to imprison anyone who imposed them. These now began to operate as factories of death. Auschwitz was the biggest of these death camps, a city of barricks where hundreds of thousands of people starved to death amid indescribable brutality. At it's center stood gas chambers and creamatoria design to take train loads of human beings, gas them and burn them. The Jews were seperated into two groups upon arrival at the concentration camps. Those who would go to the slow death of the slave camp, and those who were sent directly to the gas chamber. It is estimated that 1.6 million were killed in Auschwitz, under the order of Hitler. 3 Although only Jews were intended for systematic murder, many others died. Such as, millions of Russian prisoners of war, homosexuals, the mentally and physically disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses, communists, Gypsies, political and religious protesters, large numbers of Greeks, Yukoslavs, and resistent fighters from other Euorpean countries, and many others. Few Jews escaped. Some went into hiding and others went into the Soviet Union ahead of the German armies. By 1945 the Holocaust of the death camps had consumed more than 6 million Jews. This is an example of Hitler's greed. He felt that everyone had to be like him for he was, "the perfect man." Everyone that was different than Hitler threatened his rein of power and authority, so he felt getting rid of everyone else would help keep him the Fhrer. He knew that people of the Nazi party worshipped him for he had great ideas that he put in well written speeches, for he was self centered. Jews feel that someone could restart what Hitler had began. There are German's today that still have a growing hatred for Je...
