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Extermination is committing mass murder.
Extermination is committing mass murder.
"Selection"
"Selection"
In 1943, Jewish prisoners were forced onto trains and taken to death camps. Upon arrival, 80% of them (mostly children and those too weak to work) were sent to gas chambers disguised as showers.
A doctor assesses and old man for selection. The man does not know he is about to be sent to his death.
Women and children awaiting the selection process
The "selected" people were told they were being sent to large communal showers, but that was a lie. They were stripped naked, crowded into large shower rooms, and the lights turned off. Then, instead of water coming from the spouts above, poison gas such as Zyklon-B was pumped into the sealed room. Panicked children and elderly prisoners clawed at the walls and screamed for help, but they suffocated to death painfully. Then the room was vented, opened, and the bodies were dragged out of the room and burned in ovens.
Bodies were then burned to efficiently and secretly dispose of evidence.
The room above is one of the gas chambers used in a death camp
Up to 9,000 people could be gassed and cremated in one day at a death camp.
In total, 6 million Jews and 11 million others, including Catholics, disabled individuals, and Soviet prisoners of war were murdered in this genocide.
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