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The Holocaust
Belzec
had carbon dioxide gas chambers
which
600,000 Jews were killed. Aushwitz
was the
largest death camp, it used fast acting
hydrogen
cyanide for the gassings. Some of the prisoners were used for medical
experiments, mostly sterilizations. Only Jews and Roma Gypsies were
gassed routinely, several hundred thousand other Aushwitz inmates died
from lack of food, sickness, or shooting. To erase the traces of
destruction, large crematories were constructed so that the bodies of the
gassed could be burned. When the war ended, millions of Jews, Slavs,
Roma,
Jehovah's Witnesses,
Communists, and others targeted by the Nazis had died in the Holocaust.
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