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They did horrible things. I can't believe a human being could be so cruel. They did things like sewing different body parts onto other people, operations without anesthetic, and taking out internal organs such as liver and intestines. Firing squads were used to gun down many people at a time and then dumped the people into heaps. Some were told they were being taken to a shower and it was actually a gas chamber. The soap in these 'showers' were made out of Jewish bodies. (fat). Many starved to death and some were used as guinea pigs for medical testing, especially twins. For their meals (if they were lucky) they would get 1 cup of dirty water a day with a slice of bread. Methods of execution included more than gassing and shooting; Jews were killed in a variety of ways. The camp guards "became notorious for their cruelty, trying to outdo each other in devising fiendish methods of killing their victims". One man froze to death because he was forced to stay in an ice hole until he died. Another victim was hung upside down, completely naked, for three hours until he was killed by the camp guards who used "sticks to force sand down his throat". Source:

www . holocaustchronicle. org [Edit: breaks added as links are not permitted and prevent posting]

Pg 396 & 351 Many Jews were forced to stand in the blazing sun for hours on end, no sitting, water or rest. Strong men were taken away for work om farms. Pretty girls were forced to become unspeakable things. [Edit - generally, unpaid prostitutes for the guards.]

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I am afraid human beings can be that cruel, and the Nazis were by no means the first or last in that regard. Stalin's regime in Russian, Chairman Mao's in China, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and so-called ISIS now, all plumb the same depths of inhumanity. What sets the Nazis apart perhaps, is not the appalling death toll of about 6 000 000 (Stalin killed even more) but the carefully-planned industrial approach and scale of their methods, with the gas chambers becoming their preferred extermination technique, rather than shootings.

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