The Nazis were proud of the efficiency of their death camps.

by Rabbi Eliahu Ellis & Rabbi Shmuel Silinsky

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Sentenced To Death

Jews Being Sent To The Gas Chambers
photo courtesy of Yad Vashem

 

Those who were selected for "death" went to the barracks. They were told they were going for "de-lousing." They entered big chambers. Hoess, the Commandant of Auschwitz, was a model of efficiency. He developed chambers that could "process" 2,000 people at a time. At one point, Auschwitz was killing 20,000 people a day.

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Burning Corpses

Burning Corpses of Hungarian Jews In Large Pits
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The gas would usually kill within five minutes. Afterwards, they would take out the bodies, check for gold, and then the corpses would go to the crematoria.

Those ovens were going day and night. The doors literally melted off the hinges.

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The Ovens

Ovens Used For Burning Corpses
photo courtesy of Yad Vashem

With perfect efficiency, everything was used. Everything was saved – even the hair for stuffing coats and mattresses, and the ashes for fertilizer.

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Mothers And Children

Mothers Comforting Children Prior To Gassing
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NOTE: The Jews always had to pay for everything. If someone’s father or brother was carted away to the camps, he would get a postcard informing him that he died of a heart attack, and if he would kindly send 3-1/2 Marks, they would send his ashes.

Published: Wednesday, December 31, 1969

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Visitor Comments: 5

  • (5) Axel , March 2, 2009

    Oh my...

    I can't even imagine how they managed to kill so many innocent people. espesialy in one day. 20,000?! Thats sick.

  • (4) Jack , February 24, 2008

    This is just sick and cruel and discusting

  • (3) zach , January 28, 2008

    Time machine

    WOW!

    I have had enough about hearing this! On top of my life goal of making millions and donating over half of it to charities, i now have a new goal!

    Im gunna build a time machine...go back to the 1930's save the Jews and kill off the nazi's...

    Did i mention...

    I hope that nazi's BURN IN HELL!!!

  • (2) Rebecca Leannne , March 20, 2007

    hurtful, scarce, horrid, illeagal, and cruel

    The Holocaust, was such an awful time in life. People were murdered, and beaten.People would stand in line, excited, thinking they will soon go home, but throught the things they dont know, they will walk into a room, and be murdered. Just by reading the book, i cry. To realize how sad, and horrible, those times were, to be seperated from family, and dieing a painful death. And yet here I stand today, unknowing how they felt, and not being murdered as they were, I feel as if I have been blessed, to be alive, and pray for those who lost there's.
    Rebecca Leanne

  • (1) Anonymous , March 26, 2002

    be more specific

    Write more about certain camps, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Mauthausen. You concentrate on all the informatin, you should be more specific

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