Context- Ways of killing Masses

The Holocaust was a massive slaughter of humans, the strategies they had for exterminating people were a lot. This strategies were basically composed by, mass shootings, the jews were forced to dig their own graves or simply placed along large mass of graves, and then shot so that they fell into the grave. The gassing trucks in which the jews were forced to enter and then exhaust gas from the engine into the truck. the jews were thus suffocated. One of the most effective killing methods was by forcing Jews into gas chambers, where they were gassed to death using exhaust fumes or Zyklon B. In five of the six extermination camps gas chambers were constructed with the single purpose of killing Jews, gypsies and other ’undesirables’. In the Chelmno extermination camp gassing trucks were used for this horrible enterprise. The procedure of killing the victims in gas chambers was the following: the victims were forced into the gas chamber, the door was closed and either exhaust fumes or Zyklon B-gas was led into the room. In the extermination camps at Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka exhaust fumes were used, while Zyklon B was used in Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Finally, there were the hangings, in which they put the person over a chair for days without any food and then they kicked the chair and hang them.