20 Bone Chilling Facts About Hitler And The Holocaust

By Editorial Staff in Bizarre On 11th October 2015

Nazism was the driving force that set the grounds for the Jewish genocide of modern Europe. Today we know it as the Holocaust. This process of frenzied nationalism was realized through the passage of laws and gradual dis-empowerment with the help of the state. Eventually once the Second World War began this killing took its bloody course. Here are a few unknown facts about the holocaust.

#1 The view of the death camp, Auschwitz

In a cruel attempt to prove the Jews were animals, the poisonous gas was pumped from below the floor in the gas chambers. As air became precious to breathe stronger prisoners would claw their way to the top in an attempt to live.

#2 The electrifying fences and barbed wires at Auschwitz.

This picture shows the crematorium with its chimneys. This was the place where all the bodies were burnt.

#3 For the Jews, this was the gateway to a living hell.

The words on the gate translate to "Work Gives Freedom". This was the phrase that greeted them at the Auschwitz camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Some one million people were murdered in this three camp complex namely, Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz.

#4 Over 1.1 million children died in this massacre.

How could young kids pose a threat to them Nazis you ask? Well they would eventually grow up to produce more Jews. To solve that problem, they were murdered in cattle cars and those that survived were suffocated to death in gas chambers.

#5 Jews transported in container trains.

The Jews were taken to concentration camps via the rail network. They were dumped together into a container without food, water, toilet or ventilation. In one account one such train took 18 days. When the doors were opened, all the people were found dead.

#6 The entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

Auschwitz-Birkenau was one of the largest Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp. It operated 4 gas chambers where 6,000 people were put to death each day by the Nazi regime.

#7 Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Wiemar, Germany in 1945.

This was one of the many camps that were used to "cull" the Jews. In this picture a prisoner stares outside the barbed wire.

#8 The gas chamber at Majdanek, a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, the walls were stained blue by Zyklon B.

Carbon monoxide was originally used in these gas chambers. Later on, the insecticide Zyklon B was developed to kill the inmates. Once they entered the chamber, Zyklon B, a toxic gas was released through vents and the inmates were choked to death. The prisoners screamed for their lives and blood came out of their ears and foam from their mouths.

#9 The ovens at Auschwitz cremated the bodies of those who died in the camp.

The prisoners who were mainly Jews were called Sonderkommando and they were forced to bury corpses or burn them in ovens. This was mainly because the Nazis did not want any eye-witnesses.

#10 People walk past the broken store windows in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, Berlin, Nov 1938.

The nazis destroyed the Jewish-owned businesses on the "Night of Broken Glass" or "Kristallnacht." It occurred throughout Germany and Austria on November 9, 1938 when the Nazis attacked the Jews. They looted, burned and destroyed everything. Over 1,000 synagogues and 7,000 businesses were demolished. Also, the Jewish hospitals, schools, cemeteries, and homes had been attacked. When it was over, 96 Jews were discovered dead and 30,000 were arrested.

#11 Prisoners from Hungary

They arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp, about 50 km west of Krakow, Poland, spring 1945.

#12 This gas chamber was the largest room in Crematorium I at Auschwitz.

The room was originally used as a mortuary, but it was converted into a gas chamber in 1941 where Soviet POWs and Jews were killed.

#13 Survivors at Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

They remained in their barracks after liberation by Allies on April 16, 1945. Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winning author of Night, is on the second bunk from the bottom, seventh from the left.

#14 The interior of one of the dormitory houses at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, 1981.

#15 Emaciated survivors of one of the largest Nazi concentration camps.

Ebensee, Austria, May 7, 1945.

#16 A few of the thousands of wedding rings the Nazis removed from their victims to salvage the gold.

U.S. troops found rings, watches, precious stones, eyeglasses, and gold fillings near the Buchenwald concentration camp. Germany, May 5, 1945.

#17 Jewish couple wearing yellow stars.

In April of 1944, Jews were ordered to wear yellow stars on their clothes.

#18 Battered suitcases sit in a pile in a room at Auschwitz.

The cases, most inscribed with each owner's name, were taken from prisoners upon their arrival at the camps.

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