Able bodied Jews were usually used as slave labour. This meant that they were worked to death on insufficient food.
Those considered unfit for work (the old, the young, pregnant women) were gassed; the others were forced to do heavy manual labour on inadequate food. The young (under 14), the old and others considered unable to do hard manual work were gassed, then cremated. Those considered fit for work had to work.
They were killed Nazis would kill anyone who doesnt fit the nazi aryan race such as Jews Polish, POWs etc.
I hope this was asked in jest (even though it is not terribly funny) as this particular question, and questions in general about "how many Jews can fit in a small space", are quite offensive to many Jews who see it as an attempt at Holocaust math. (e.g. trying to prove that Holocaust couldn't happen because too few Jews could fit in a space or devaluing Jewish lives by counting them in degrading situations.) Strictly speaking, Jews are of average European height, weight, and girth so the count should be the same between Jews and Europeans trying to fit in the same model of car.
Short answer: Anyone and everyone who did not 'fit in'. Long answer: jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, political prisioners, anyone who the Germans didn't like.
The people in the camps (Jews, gypsies, political prisoner, etc) was just selected a people in random in a certain group such as if the wanted to execute Jews, they get an amount of jews. _______________________ They would have to fit the Nazi criteria of being Jewish.
The Holocaust fits in to mob mentality because all of the Nazis that did horrible things to the Jews probably would not have done that on their own. They felt that it was acceptable because the 'next guy' was doing it too.
On arrival at Auschwitz the Jews were sorted into two groups. Those who were 'selected' (chosen) as fit for work were used as slave laborers. The rest were gassed as soon as practical. Kids under 15 (sometimes 14), visibly pregnant women and the elderly were gassed as unfit for work. This was standard procedure. Those considered fit for work were registered and tattooed with a number and then sent to forced labour sections of the camp, where they had to do heavy manual labour on grossly insufficient food. Most women, children, and elderly people were told they were going to the "showers" to be cleansed of lice, but, they were gassed and cremated as soon as possible. Healthy adult men and women healthy were worked until they were unable to do any more back breaking slave labor, then they were gassed and cremated, and replaced by new slave labor. A small number of Jews were used for "medical experiments".
It wasn't only the Jews. It was anyone who didn't fit into Hitler's idea of a ideal person. Others killed were the Gypsys, handicapped, and political prisoners. About 5 million non-Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
The Final Solution is considered the core of the Holocaust because it illustrates the lowest tactic used by Hitler: incriminate Jews in the eyes of the German people and then respond by eliminating the problem. Other parts of the Holocaust like Action T4 (against disabilities) were just extra political tools. Homosexuals, Communists, retards, and race defilers were not persecuted on the scale that the Jews were.
They were mainly Jewish people, gypsies, lesbian/gay people, black people, or any undesirables that didn't fit Hitler's "perfect race" that were executed during the holocaust. If you go to your local library there will probably be a lot of books and information regarding this topic.
The number of prisoners placed in each Barrack varied by camp, so there isn't an exact answer but it was usually a few hundred.
In brief, six million of them were killed. There was a lot of suffering and degradation involved.In the Holocaust the Jews were subjected to genocide. About 6 million Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis and some of their Axis allies.They were deprived of the possibility of earning a living and were made dependent on Nazi 'good will' for all their needs.They were herded into overcrowded ghettos, with grossly inadequate food and usually no medication.They were transported by rail in cattle trucks to forced labour and extermination camps.In the camps, those fit for work were - for the most part - worked to death on insufficient food; the rest were gassed as soon as practical after arrival.In many parts of the Soviet Union they were rounded up and shot by the Nazis and collaborators.______The Jews were transported to concentration camps like cattle. They lost all humanity because: they were beaten, raped/molested, were fed rations, and had to do endless labor. 6 million Jews were killed and about 1.3 million survived. SS officers were always German and treated Jews like vermin.