How were babies killed in concentration camps?

Answer 1

Many Jewish children were murdered in the Holocaust about 1.5 million children under the ages of 12 were murdered in this horrific event. Although the exact amount of babies is unaccounted for. The Germans took no mercy Jewish babies in their eyes had the same value as an old man. So these babies were picked off in places like gas chambers or a mass shooting by German officials.

Answer 2

If they had survived the journey to the camp itself (which they usually didn't), they were killed. There was no use for a child in a concentration camp, let alone an infant.

AnswerSince they had little value as laborers, they were often the first to be annihilated. AnswerBabies could not be used for labor, so they we're gassed on arrival (along with the old, disabled and sick)

They would smash babies heads against walls ... killing them instantly

AnswerThere was a lot of cruel things to be seen at these camps, a Survivor from one of these camps said when someone would have a baby with them the Nazi soldiers would take it, throw it in the air, let it fall to the ground and their dogs would tear it up right in front of them.

Answer 3

The majority did not because they were gassed upon arrival. Babies that were born inside the concentration camps rarely lived longer than 24 hours, because their mothers had no way of feeding them.

However, Eva Clarke was born in Auschwitz and she survived. See related links below.

Answer 4

Not certain, but they may have died from malnutrition, typhus, exhaustion, exposure to the elements, fatal injections if they were ill, beatings, hangings, being worked to death, whom the guards thought were pretty were raped and usually killed. ___ Children under 15 (sometimes 14) were usually gassed on arrival at extermination camps.

Answer 5

Yes. Babies and young children couldn't handle the labor of the camps, and were therefore no use to the Nazis. They were shot or gassed soon after arrival.
Yes of course they did. Usually mothers and their babies were taken into the gas chambers together as it was easier because of the commotion a mother would cause if her baby was taken from her.

In Night by Elie Wiesel the first horrific scene he witnesses on arrival in Auschwitz is a lorry full of corpses of babies being emptied into a furnace.

There is no boundaries to the horrors of the Holocaust.

Answer 6

Under the circumstances, it's likely the baby would die in the mother, but if the birth was successful, there would be no food or water to keep the baby alive for long.

Answer 7

They were of no use to the German Nazis for slave labor therefore they were put in the gas chambers as soon as they got to the camps.

Answer 8

babies were thrown into ovens if not already dead in the gas chambers