By: Dyllan CookKassandra Espinola

Reuben SesmaRachel ZozoyaNatalie Korems

The S.S. Selection is a group that the Nazis and Adolf Hitler created to protect them. They were in charge of the dirty work. They killed most of the people who died during the Holocaust.

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The fundamental principle of selection was what Himmler called Blood and Elite. The SS was to be the living embodiment of the Nazi doctrine of the superiority of Nordic blood, and of the Nazi conception of a master race.

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Adolf Hitler controlled the SS Selection. The organization was made to concept a master race and protect him. The race was light skinned, blue eyes, and blonde hair. They could not be Jewish.

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Adolf Hitler thought he could make a perfect race by killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people. They would put the people in concentration camps and starve them to death.

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Concentration camps by definition are a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined . The Nazis kept all prisoners in these camps as they waited to be killed. Some of the ways the Germans killed them were by poisonous gas and testing medical experiments on the people. Some of the experiments that the Germans tested on their prisoners were diseases and the cures for them.

The Auschwitz concentration camp complex in Germany, was the largest Nazi killing center. SS officers stationed in Auschwitz enjoyed social functions and formal ceremonies. Like nothing bad was happening there.

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They would trick the Jews into the concentration camps. The SS would tell them they were going to a room to shower, but really they were headed to a gas chamber where deadly carbon monoxide fumes were fed in from a diesel engine.

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Jews took matters into their own hands and violently resisted the Nazis. A group of 750 Jews armed with smuggled-in weapons battled over 2000 SS soldiers. Because of this Nazis decided to burn down the entire ghetto.

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The Jews jumped out of the burning buildings in fear of being burned alive. With their bones broken, they still tried to crawl into buildings which had not yet been set on fire. Some Jews ran back into burning buildings to die rather than being caught by the SS.

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Allied forces defeated and occupied Germany. They liberated the camps one by one from July 1944 onwards. For most it was too late. http://blog.becomingjewish.org/wp-

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http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/nca/nca-02/nca-02-15-criminality-05-04.html

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/holocaust.htm

http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/voices/testimonies/ghettos/nazisarrive/selection.html