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by wickedwillie on January 18th, 2004

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How many people were killed in the Nazi concentration camps?

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  • by stryder on March 2nd, 2006

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    There are a number of estimates of the number of victims of the holocaust. Most of the sources agree that it was more than 6 million people.

    Every method that can be imagined was utilized at one point in time or another. Firing squads were used, but the SS felt that the costs of bullets was too high to be efficient. They tried poison gases, including Zyklon-B, which is a very effective lethal gas. Inmates were also used as test subjects for Nazi doctors who would toss people into freezing water to see how they reacted to cold. They really didn't care whether they lived or died, they just needed the test subject.

    There were horrible tests performed on many of the inmates. If you want to get a sense of some of the methods used, go to the web site for the National Holocaust Museum in Washington. I haven't been there, but I did get to tour several of the death camps when I lived in Europe as a kid, so I don't need a museum to show me how bad they were. I was able to meet many of the survivors, and the stories are beyond belief.

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