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Belzec was a death camp located in South Eastern Poland within the Lublin District. belzec was a concentration camp that was established on November 1st, 1941. Belzec set up a number of labour camps but disbanded in October. Belzec was chosen as a death camp for particular reasons because of railway station that divided into 3 parts these 3 parts were The Administration Section, The Barracks and Storage Section, and The Extermination Section. The construction camp was supervised by an unknown red haired officer known as The Master.The whole point of the camp was for Annihilation.During the Holocaust, many labor and mass murder camps were built. Auschwitz …show more content…
At these murder camps, some used gas to poison the people. It was established in February 1940 and on November 1, 1941, construction began at this death camp. It was opened for only 9 months and is reported that 600,000 people died there. Belzec had to kill 15,000 a day.The Belzec concentration camps were built on the orders of Hitler that were passed down to Heinrich Himmler. One of the first gas chambers that were built was at Belzec. Christian Wirth, built the gas chamber. His building was three rectangular rooms, each about thirteen by twenty-six feet. A 240-horsepower engine from a captured Russian tank was installed in a shed just outside, and exhaust fumes were piped into the chambers.However, this form of gassing, at the beginning, worked very badly. A report from a SS colonial concludes this. In it he says, "[Sergeant] Hackenholt was making great efforts to get the engine running. But it doesn't go up...My stopwatch showed it all, 50 minutes, 70 minutes, and the diesel did not start. The people wait inside the gas chamber. In vain.Six gas chambers could hold about 1,500 people. The exhaust gas was used to kill people.Many people throughout the world live in some of the ugliest, most disgusting conditions on the …show more content…
They were also transported to concentration camps, where people were either killed or put to work.Adolf Hitler was a mass murder.He killed many innocent people just because they were jews.He was the Nazi Leader and one of the most powerful dictators.His attack on Poland caused WWII.The war caused an invasion on Russia and the U.s to enter the war and then he killed himself right before the defeat of germany.Adolf hitler and Himmler got along very well because they both were very tired and angry with jews and they both killed many of them .Himmler was the owner and creator of the concentration camps for the jews and gypsies.Himmler was known as the 2nd most powerful man in the world alongside hitler which was the first.He was left with the responsibility for the Nazi empire.born October 7, 1900, Munich, Germany—died May 23, 1945, Lüneburg, Germany), German National Socialist (Nazi) politician, police administrator, and military commander who became the second most powerful man in the Third Reich.Himmler joined the Nazi party in 1925.These 20,000 camps were used for a range of purposes including,forced labour camps transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps.These people suffered because of their beliefs and religion that's wrong you shouldn't be murdered for what you believe in many innocent jews died because of their religion.that's why concentration camps were made for punishment to the jews and the gypsies,and now there is memorials

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