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Concentration and Death Camps

no reasoning behind this madness. The Nazis had no intentions of gaining anything from these experiments. Their only purpose for this was to destroy and annihilate the Jews in the most inhumane and unbelievable ways. Words cannot describe what happened inside the barbed wire fences of these camps.Killing mass amounts of people was Hitlers way of showing his power. He thought the Jews were his problem, so he decided to get rid of them. He was set off by Kristallnacht, the night of the broken glass. This was the night when Synagogues were burned down, and 7,500 shops were ransacked and destroyed by the Nazis, but yet Hitler blamed the Jews for this chaotic evening. He made them pay for the damage by sending them to concentration camps(Ellis 782). It was said that Hitler, decided to rid Europe of a whole people by simply having them shot to death.(Meltzer 105). Once again, there are many questions with no answers. Hitler killed millions of Jews during the Holocaust, but yet he had no apparent reasons for his absurd and unimaginable actions. He must have had a hatred inside of him that drove him to the point where he found it necessary to exterminate the Jews, but there is no point like that in any human. He was simply mentally disturbed.Three Nazi leaders under Hitler made very important decisions. These men were, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, and Hermann Goering. They came up with a final solution. Their plan was to get rid of all the Jews by concentrating them in a small and confined area. These were developed, and eventually they worked very successfully for the Nazis(Meltzer 77). Himmler was the head of the SS. He called on all modern technology equipment to be installed in concentration camps. This equipment consisted of gas chambers and crematoria. He deported full Polish Ghettos, and Jews from all over Europe and sent them to the east(Findley 246). On the other side, there were no specific revolt groups ...

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