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Death Camps

The Nazis believed that Jews as Non-Aryans (Aryan is an identification of race that cannot be defined scientifically) were of inferior stock and needed to be eliminated. Nearly six million were killed, including babies and young children. This mass murder was unprecedented in human history.

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They were established because the existing methods that were established for dealing with the Jews were not working. Germany lacked the resources to feed both the army and the Jews and with uncreasing numbers of prisoners they needed a better method of reducing the numbers.

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