Jews were rounded up and told they were to be relocated
They were taken to the woods and were shot one by one and their bodies were buried in mass graves. Again, Jews were rounded up and told they were to be relocated in vans The vans were equipped so that the van’s exhaust was piped back into the van, thus killing them. Nazi leaders decided to drastically speed up the Final Solution

There were two different types of camps:
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
EXTERMINATION CAMPS

Jews from all over occupied Europe were to be brought here.
In the next phase of the "final solution" Nazis separated out the young, the old, and the ill and sent them to their deaths. The gas chamber was used in the extermination camps such as Auschwitz. Those who could work obtained only a temporary reprieve. The Nazis would force large groups of prisoners into small cement rooms and drop canisters of Zyklon B, or prussic acid, in its crystal form through small holes in the roof. These gas chambers were sometimes disguised as showers or bathing houses. Specially selected Jews known as the sonderkommando were used to to remove the gold fillings and hair of people before they are cremated. The Sonderkommando Jews were also forced to feed the dead bodies into the crematorium …show more content…
Mengele arrived in Auschwitz in May of 1943 He was an SS Doctor who had power of life/death. He performed medical experiments on Jewish children

MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS:
Sterilization of men and women
Endurance of pain to high and low temperatures and pressure
Experiments on twins to increase number of multiple births to Aryan women
Injections of phenol to kill patients
Dr. Mengele attempted to sew children together to make Siamese twins

Largest single massacre of Holocaust: Reinhard Massacre
March 1942-November 1943 named after Reinhard