y and holdings, while the Jews watched in horror (Bachrach 24). The Chicago Tribune headlines blared the "Systematic destruction of Jewish property, looting, arson, and wholesale arrest of Jews without official charges swept Germany today" (Altshuler 98). Violence against the Jewish community got worse. Nazi violence against the world community also increased.The Nazi invasion of Poland and Russia set the stage for the beginning of mobile killing squads. As the military gained control over the various regions, the mobile killing squads were formed with the express purpose of killing all Jews. These squads ordered their helpless victims to march to large open fields and ravines where massive murders were conducted. Massive graves became the resting spot for the persecuted Jews (Ayer 9).The raging fire had turned into an inferno. The killing did not end with the mobile squads; for Hitler could not destroy the "immoral" victims fast enough to suit his needs. He needed a faster and more economical means to destroy large numbers of individuals. To achieve this goal, Hitler and his band of followers expressed a plan, applied trained personnel, constructed a killing machine, and employed insincere language to cover up the criminal character of destruction. The plan was called the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"(Altshuler 72).Perfected by the Nazi Regime, the "Solution" focused initially on the elderly, handicapped, and incurably ill. Shooting victims had become expensive, and bullets needed to be reserved for the war effort elsewhere. Carbon monoxide gas was put into large chambers made to execute massive numbers of peoples. Even children were quickly chosen for these first "gas" chambers as they represented the next generation of Jews. Over time, a less expensive poison/toxin --Zyklon B-- was used in the concentration camps to quicken the massive murders.The inferno was raging in a destructive rage. Healthy individuals were maintained...
