Nazi Occupation (fugitive Pieces)
The twentieth century is characterized by many great technological discoveries. In many ways, these past hundred years have been good to humanity. Unfortunately, it is also the bloodiest period that mankind has ever known. For more than 30 years, most of the world population was at war. Each nation fighting for their own reasons, the two World Wars were truly the most complicated and horrifying situation human beings ever put themselves into. Separated by twenty years, many historians would argue that the War never stopped, that what we describe as two distinct conflicts was in fact one long ongoing battle. The most sinister interpretation of the beginning of the First World War is that the Germans were in fact planning this conflict since December 1912, where a meeting was held by the Kaiser. Many historians believe that they then decided to go to war eighteen months after. The most realistic fact about the commencement of the war is the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28 1914. Bounded by a treaty, the Austria-Hungarian could not so easily blame the Germans and decided to take action against Serbia who was also suspect in the murder. From there, it all crumbled down: Germany declared
war to Russia, to France and to Belgium. The latter is quite interesting because the Germans were merely trying to obtain a free passage through the Belgian territory. On the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the Armistice was signed to stop the conflict. The final treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28th 1919 and concerned the territorial boundaries of Germany, its military matters and the fixing of the desolation caused by the battles. The Nazis used concentration camps as the basis for their discrimination and mass murder. In fact, several different kinds of camps were enumerated: concentration camps, forced labour camps, extermination camps, transit camps and prisoner-of-war camps. The purpose of these places was to imprison or even methodically kill several million of human beings. One of the most famous death camps is situated in Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau. The calculated number of victims that fell behind these walls is estimated around four million Jews and war prisoners. The Nazis used different techniques to annihilate these people. "Raul Hilberg states: TESTA sold Zyklon in different concentrations. Invoices presented to municipal or industrial clients for fumigation of buildings were printed with columns headed C, D, E, and F, each denoting a category of potency and price. As explained in a letter to Osland, strength E was required for the eradication of specially resistant vermin, such as cockroaches, or for gassings in wooden barracks. The "normal" preparation D was used to exterminate lice, mice, or rats in large, well-built structures containing furniture. Human organisms in gas chambers were killed with Zyklon B" (http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/chemistry/#iii). The composition of the gas used to mass murder such a large amount of people is Zyklon B, hydrogen cyanide and a chemical agent, diatomite. The hydrogen cyanide, HCN, works by linking enzymes important to the cellular respiration, making the cells unabl
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