How did the Germans plan to eradicate the Jews of Europe?

Answer 1

In what ways did the Nazis try to eliminate all Jews in Europe in the years from 1941 onwards? The years following 1941 were full of terror and hurt for the German Jews. They were killed in many ways such as being hung, shot, gassed and were even used for medical experiments. Jews were imprisoned in Ghettos. They were meant to imprison them and not to kill them, but make easy labour from them. Because they were worked so hard the Ghettos became a known killer of German Jews around 1941.The Jews living there lived in poor conditions with no electricity or food. They had barely any clothes and were freezing cold and lived most of the time in darkness. The Ghettos were ideal for what the Nazis needed the Jews for as they were all in one place and the Nazis didn't have to go looking for them when they decided they wanted to kill them. The Nazis made sure that the Jews living in the Ghettos felt it was so bad condition wise that they would do anything they could to leave and then leave the area to avoid being Jews in the Ghettos were worked hard at things such as digging snow, building roads, working in factories and building railway lines which later lead to the concentration and death camps. At first the most common way for Nazis to kill Jews was to shoot them. The way in which they were shot ranged from being randomly shot in the streets to being gathered in a pit with 200-300 more Jews and shot at until they died. When the Nazis decided to start their hate campaign against the Jews many of them tried hiding under floorboards and similar places so Nazis did things such as shoot the ceilings from the rooms below to try and kill them. This wasted lots of bullets so the Nazis resulted in lining Jews up and shooting the one in the front and allowing the bullet to kill the others in the line-up. It is said that 6 million Jews were killed in one of these ways, for the only reason of them being Jewish. Millions of bullets were used to try and solve the issue of there being too many Jews in Germany whilst Hitler had his reign. The easiest way to kill them was to take a gun and just shoot them, it was quick and easy and most of the time painless. This seemed like the best idea on how to get rid of Jews but as the war progressed the bullets were needed out at battle so the Nazis had to think of a new way to kill them. The Nazis thought it be best if they started to gas the Jews in order to save bullets and it was easier and could kill more of them at one time. The ways in which they killed them was to send them to gas chambers in which they were stripped of all their belongings and clothes and their hair cut. After this they were told they should go into a room of showers to be de-loused. Then, when the room went dark and all the doors were locked and there was no possible way of them escaping instead of water coming from the showers a gas called Zyklon-B would come out and they would all die of gas poisoning. Another way that they were gassed is that they would be rounded up and put into specially designed lorries that didn't allow gas to leave it and a pipe from the exhaust was put into the lorry so they would all fall into a sleep and never wake up. This was probably one of the best ways the Nazis killed Jews as it was painless for them and they didn't feel as scared as to what would be happening to them. hope that answers your question....

Answer 2

As Germany defeated the countries of Europe, the Jews were rounded up, sent to death camps and exterminated. Death camps used gas chambers, firing squads, starvation, beatings and any method that they found convenient. After the Jews were killed, the Germans often used remaining Jews to load the bodies into the furnaces. Toward the end, they became so desperate to hide what they had done, they dug large trenches, lined up the Jews and shot them with machine gunes, pushing the bodies into the trenches. It still remains one of the worst attrocities of human history.

Answer 3

Hitler planned to eliminate Jews by bringing them to death camps to be shot, put in gas chambers, or to die by catching a disease.