How were people killed in the Auschwitz death camp?

Answer 1

Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing centre where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning ...

9 out of 10 were Jews. In addition, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, and prisoners of all nationalities died in the gas chambers. Between May 14 and July 8,1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 148 trains. This was probably the largest single mass deportation during the Holocaust.

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp facility, was located nearby the provincial Polish town of Oshwiecim in Galacia, and was established by order of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler on 27 April 1940. Private diaries of Goebbels and Himmler unearthed from the secret Soviet archives show that Adolf Hitler personally ordered the mass extermination of the Jews during a meeting of Nazi German regional governors in the chancellery. As Goebbels wrote "With regards to the Jewish question, the Fuhrer decided to make a clean sweep ..."

Answer 2

They were killed initially by Carbon Monoxide from engine exhausts, then as a trial explosives were used, but due to the inefficiency they moved onto gassing with Zyklon B gas pellets. Before the war Zyklon B was used to kill rodents in factories.

Answer 3

They were hung, shot, put in gas chambers, baked in ovens and starved to death.

It was horrible what they did to these poor innocent Jews. In gas chambers they were told that they were to be given showers....but instead of water coming out of the spouts gas came out and it took about 10-20 minutes for them to die. They also did labor until they died and some scientists did different "projects" on them to test their results. Usually the "patients" died a painful death.

Answer 4

Gas chambers.

Firing Squads.

Death marches.

Crematoriums.

Lack of food (Hunger).

Answer 5

they were killed by the barbered wires when they were trying to escape.

Answer 6

The majority of prisoners held at Auschwitz were killed in the various gas chambers though many died from starvation, forced labor, disease, shooting squads, and heinous medical experiments.