Comments on: What was one major event during the Auschwitz time? http://desdelaxarxa.net/event/what-was-one-major-event-during-the-auschwitz-time Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:50:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tonya http://desdelaxarxa.net/event/what-was-one-major-event-during-the-auschwitz-time/comment-page-1#comment-6989 Tonya Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:16:59 +0000 http://desdelaxarxa.net/event/what-was-one-major-event-during-the-auschwitz-time#comment-6989 You should research the Wannsee Conference, which was a meeting presided over by Himmler's chief deputy Reinhard Heydrich. The meeting convened on January 20, 1942 and was attended by fifteen high-powered Nazi and government leaders. At this meeting, the government leaders were told in no uncertain terms that the Nazis had reached a solution to the "Jewish question." Their plan was to exterminate the Jews through mass gassings in extermination camps throughout Poland. Heydrich also informed these same leaders that they would be expected to assist with the mass relocation of Jews from areas of German-occupied Europe to the extermination camps--information to which NOT ONE of the leaders objected. The mobile death units had been active already throughout eastern Europe, rounding up Jews and conducting mass shootings, but the process was proving to be too slow and taxing on the SS men; therefore, experiments had been carried out at Auschwitz in September of 1941 with a gas called Zyclon B, which could be used to kill a large number of people in a very short amount of time. Then, in January of 1942, the same month of the Wannsee Conference, Auschwitz began its mass extermination practices, which were to continue and escalate until the end of the war. The Wannsee Conference is the only known meeting in the modern world during which high-powered, educated, government officials met upon, discussed, and decided on the murder of an entire race of people. If you get a chance, there is an excellent movie called "Conspiracy," which stars Kenneth Branaugh as Heydrich. It is a dramatization of the minutes of the meeting, a copy of which was found in one of the attendee's files after the war. It's VERY interesting. The luncheon (yes, the meeting was held over lunch) was only about an hour and a half long....an hour and a half!!....to convince fifteen intelligent men to murder millions of people! It's shocking, really! Hope this helped! Happy Holidays!<br><b>References : </b><br> You should research the Wannsee Conference, which was a meeting presided over by Himmler’s chief deputy Reinhard Heydrich. The meeting convened on January 20, 1942 and was attended by fifteen high-powered Nazi and government leaders. At this meeting, the government leaders were told in no uncertain terms that the Nazis had reached a solution to the "Jewish question." Their plan was to exterminate the Jews through mass gassings in extermination camps throughout Poland. Heydrich also informed these same leaders that they would be expected to assist with the mass relocation of Jews from areas of German-occupied Europe to the extermination camps–information to which NOT ONE of the leaders objected. The mobile death units had been active already throughout eastern Europe, rounding up Jews and conducting mass shootings, but the process was proving to be too slow and taxing on the SS men; therefore, experiments had been carried out at Auschwitz in September of 1941 with a gas called Zyclon B, which could be used to kill a large number of people in a very short amount of time. Then, in January of 1942, the same month of the Wannsee Conference, Auschwitz began its mass extermination practices, which were to continue and escalate until the end of the war.
The Wannsee Conference is the only known meeting in the modern world during which high-powered, educated, government officials met upon, discussed, and decided on the murder of an entire race of people.
If you get a chance, there is an excellent movie called "Conspiracy," which stars Kenneth Branaugh as Heydrich. It is a dramatization of the minutes of the meeting, a copy of which was found in one of the attendee’s files after the war. It’s VERY interesting. The luncheon (yes, the meeting was held over lunch) was only about an hour and a half long….an hour and a half!!….to convince fifteen intelligent men to murder millions of people! It’s shocking, really! Hope this helped! Happy Holidays!
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]]> By: Peter http://desdelaxarxa.net/event/what-was-one-major-event-during-the-auschwitz-time/comment-page-1#comment-6988 Peter Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:45:59 +0000 http://desdelaxarxa.net/event/what-was-one-major-event-during-the-auschwitz-time#comment-6988 How about WWII? It's got everything: bloodshed, explosions, atomic bombs, Nazis, warfare, even a guy named Tojo. In regards to the paragraph: I will not do your work for you. Try the wikipedia page. I studied WWII in class for four months you cannot simply expect it to be summed up in a paragraph.<br><b>References : </b><br>International Baccalaureate Higher Level History How about WWII? It’s got everything: bloodshed, explosions, atomic bombs, Nazis, warfare, even a guy named Tojo.

In regards to the paragraph: I will not do your work for you. Try the wikipedia page. I studied WWII in class for four months you cannot simply expect it to be summed up in a paragraph.
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]]> By: Morgan M http://desdelaxarxa.net/event/what-was-one-major-event-during-the-auschwitz-time/comment-page-1#comment-6987 Morgan M Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:16:59 +0000 http://desdelaxarxa.net/event/what-was-one-major-event-during-the-auschwitz-time#comment-6987 I'd say the systematic slaughter of the Jews was pretty defining.<br><b>References : </b><br> I’d say the systematic slaughter of the Jews was pretty defining.
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