Jennifer Carlson Mr. Neuburger Eng.

Comp 101-104 5 April 2013 Research Paper The Death Camps The Holocaust remains one of the most horrific displays of persecution and murder in our history. In 1933, when Hitler comes into power, the German Government begins removing the rights of Jewish people to remain citizens. This marks the beginning of an attempt to drive Jews out of Germany. However, over the next eleven years, over twelve million innocent Jews and people from other ethnic backgrounds are brutally murdered. Most people know of the Holocaust but cannot fathom how the Nazis systematically murdered so many people in such a short amount of time. There exists many layers to the Holocaust, but one of the major breakthroughs allowing the Nazis to murder so many was the development of extermination centers or death camps. There are many extermination camps, with Auschwitz being the largest.