Reasons Why the Nazis send Jews to the concentration camps and not just kill them on the spot
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Reasons Why the Nazis send Jews to the concentration camps and not just kill them on the spot
I know a lot of Jews were shot and killed in their homes and on the streets but there is also a large majority of them that got sent to the camps. Why go through all that trouble if they were going to be killed anyways? I know Nazis used the Jews as a slave labour force too but did they also pull women and children into slavery too? Because if they didn’t, then I don’t see why the Nazis wouldn’t have just shot them outright.
Feel like I need to declare that I’m not a holocaust denier nor a Neo-Nazi, just genuinely curious why the Nazis chose to commit genocide the way they did.
Two reasons
First, maintaining cooperation. They gradually moved the Jews out of their homes to concentration camps and the Jews complied. If they just started shooting them the Jews would flee or fight back.
Second, because it was too hard on the people doing the killing. The Germans had mobile death squads at the start of the war. When they seized land in Eastern Europe they would have villages line up beside the train tracks and then shoot them all with machine guns from the trains.
Massacring civilians like that in cold blood caused severe trauma to the German troops involved. So they needed to find a way of doing it that had less impact on the soldiers.
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