The third part the contributed with the holocaust was the concentration camps. As Jews arrived to these camps, many of them thought that they would finally rest in that place that they were promise but they did not have an idea of what would happen there. They were aligned in two groups men and women, in this way the SS officers (men that were in charge of the concentration camps) would decide who would be the ones that will stay in the camps and the ones that would die right away. The SS officers made their decisions by choosing from all the people that were 18 or older, were in top physical, had experience in doing something like cook, repair anything, and even music. Now that the SS officers knew who were the chosen ones to die or to run the camp separated the Jews to their next destinations.
The Jews that were chose to die were lead to a far away place where nobody will hear them screaming for mercy. When the Jews arrived this place, the SS officers asked them or forced them to get naked; they told the Jews that they were just having a health check. Some of them Jews believed the SS officers, but they were always some that knew what was going to happen to them when they entered the big chamber. Those people that knew almost always tried to make a run to escape this horrible time, but it also lead to their death because if they were not shoot down then they were chase by dogs. After all the people entered the chamber, the SS officers shut down the doors and they let a poisonous gas take over the entire chamber. When the horrifying scene was over the SS officer sucked poisonous gas from the chamber to pick up the bodies of the Jews that died in this action. The bodies were taken to a place where they would be burnt where the same Jews worked placing the bodies in the crematory chamber.
As for the second group of Jews, they were lead to the camps where most of the Jews called Death Camps. They called it Death camps because they had to work to survive, and if they did a mistake or insulted one of the SS officer they could get killed. Many of the Jews that worked there were always afraid of doing something that would upset the SS officers. “A prisoner of one camp was begging for the life of his father when he heard that he was coming to his camp. The prisoner begged for his father to be accepted at the camp, but there was a problem his father was too old to be accepted and the SS officers didn't want him because of this. The prisoner instead begged to give his father his last meal before he died, the prisoner's wished came true” (January 53). This was a small example of how Jews had to deal in the camps. Every week or two weeks a health check out happened in the camps to make sure who were the ones in top conditions and who were ready to die. The prisoners ran naked through out the entire camp, the SS officers did this to check their physical conditions, after this doctors checked the prisoners to make sure they were not sick or had some kind of problem with their body. If the doctors found something bad on a prisoner, they would write down the prisoner's number and send the prisoner to the gas chamber.
Many prisoner tried to break out, but the camps was so secure for those people that wanted to break in or out. In some of the camps, the prisoners were tired of how they were treated and they boycotted against the Nazis. In most of the camps, the majority of the prisoners died fighting against the Nazis but there were always some people that survive these confronts. The survivors of this fight always joined armies that fought Germany in World War II.
The fourth and last contribution that creates a genocide is different opinion about racial discrimination. A genocide that happened that include racial discrimination was the genocide in Cambodia. Khmer Rouge wanted to make a new Cambodia by kicking out all the people who were not born there. Khmer Rouge chose the people by judging on the religion. He first did not want any Vietnamese in Cambodia, so he told all the Vietnamese to get out of the country before it was too late. He also banned all kind of language in the country, and it was only legal to talk in any language just for him. After this he decided to ban all the Chinese from Cambodia as well. For those people that did not leave the country, they were punish to do something against their religion, for example “A little group of Muslim were forced to eat pork something against their religion (Nasso 78). This punishment was also follow by killing the people, and their bodies were thrown in a river.
