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ovens which would cremate the dead bodies. At every concentration camp, most healthy Jews were forced to work in manual labor until they grew weak, leading to their death in the gas chambers. Aside from death at the concentration camps, Nazi officers also executed Jews on sight, which was primarily seen in the German invasion of Russia in 1941. Nazi officers forced Russian Jews to dig their own graves before being shot and left in their graves. Historians estimate that about six million Jewish people were killed through the “Final Solution.”6
The cumulative radicalization of the Nazi regime became blatantly obvious with the decision Hitler took in 1941, to exterminate all the Jews in Europe. As chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler began restricting the political participation of Jews in Germany, prohibiting them from marrying proven ethnic Germans, and banning Jews from using the new German flag and its colors. During this time, the Nazi regime began planning and experimentation with different methods of extermination by gas. The Nazi’s plan of mass genocide began in 1942. At its highest point, ten thousand Jewish prisoners were killed per day at Auschwitz in 1944. Approximately, more than five million Jews were killed due to a state-sponsored genocide.7
6 Greg Bradsher, “
of Jews,”
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National Archives.
The Nuremberg Law Archives Receives Original Nazi Documents That ‘Legalized’ Persecution
www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2010/winter/nuremberg.html
John Merriman and Jay Winter, "Holocaust." Charles Scribner's Sons.
link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3447000448/GPS?u=gullacad&sid=GPS&xid=92ae3be2.
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