t; and eventual death for the remnant.” (Final Solution, 6 Nov 2000). Under these terms, Jews from all over Nazi-occupied Europe continued to be concentrated in Eastern European cities where they where forced to work for the Germans in closed ghettos or at labor camps that were close by. Those who were already too young, too old, too weak, or simply not needed for work were sent to newly constructed extermination centers according to planned out times. In Jewish ghettos like in Warsaw and Minsk, overcrowded places showed majored starvation, hard labor, disease, and death. The Nazis gave control of the ghettos to Jewish Councils that ran and governed. The German’s, however maintained overall control by executing Jewish people that resisted or escaped. The extermination centers were located in territory conquered from Poland. Except for small crews that were used as slave laborers in disposing of the corpses (buying their time until their death), all arrivals were immediately gassed. The Germans had had prior experience in their secret “euthanasia” program killing thousands of mentally ill patients by using gas in gas chambers. The largest camp being Auschwitz, which was used both for slave labor and mass extermination by gas. There were a large number of slave laborers that were used and chosen by SS doctors for hideous medical experiments that resulted in painful deaths and permanent disfiguring. All of these individuals were deprived of adequate food, clothing, rest, and human dignity. Once gassed, the corpses were burned in crematoria’s. In Hitler’s final days, the camps were forced to close as the allies moved forward. These survivors were forced to march back to what Germany was holding on to. Many died along the way, and many more once back due to starvation and disease. Estimates of the Jewish dead from all causes range from just over five million to more than six million. The...
