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War Crimes

War crimes have been around for 100’s of years but I think the worst war crime was committed by the Nazi’s; this was during World War II. This was when Germany blamed the Jews for everything bad that had happens to Germany.

Hitler came to power by saying to the German people that it was the Jews and communists that is why they were defeated in World War I. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Thousands of Jews were arrested and taken to concentration camps where they worked as slave labourers or were shot and buried in mass graves. This went on for 3 years until the Nazi party held the Wannse Conference in January 1942. This is where they decided on the final solution, the extermination of all Jews. Giant depths camps that where mainly based in Poland were built to carry out the task of extermination of all Jews. Some of these giant death camps where Auschwitz, Treblinka and Belzec. The Jews where sill treated the same as the concentration camps but in the death camps there were gas chambers that were often disguised as showers. Jews were herded into the showers (a.k.a gas chambers) and killed. Then their bodies were taken away to be burned in big furnaces. The scale of the murder of approximately 8.5 million Jews living in Germany controlled Europe around six million were killed. Because six million Jews were killed this is why I think the worst war crime was committed by the Nazi’s.

When the Allies founded the first death camps and concentration camps they were shocked that the Nazi’s could be so crill. The Allies decided that the Nazi’s who committed this war crime would have to be punished. The bad thing about Germany was that after the war Germany made a law that if a x-German soldier said they were forced to do something bad like killing millions of Jews the charges got dropped and then they could go home but with a lot of the Germans said they were forced to do it so a lot of it was blamed on Hitler. With this law lots of Germans were getting away with it. I fined this law to be stupid because if a German soldier signed up for the army they had a chose to do that. If they were told to kill Jews they did it because in Hitler’s speech he blamed the Jews and the communits for losing World War I. So the German people believed this too so they didn’t kill Jews because they were told too. They kill Jews because they disliked them.

This war crime was the worst one, because of the gas chambers because how would you feel if you where taking from your house to be shot, beaten or to have to walk 100s of miles to a concentration camp or a death camp where you would be a slave or gassed to death. Can you imagine actually walking 100s of miles to a death camp or concentration camp where you would eventually die. Just emagen that been hared in to a room told to take off there clothes because they where going to have a shower so you are walking in to a dark gloomy room the door is locked behind you and there is about a 100 people in there with you and then a hole opens up and a German is poring something in to the shower then you start to coughed and coughed like your coughing up your lungs now your coughing up blood and then there’s nothing just internal darkens. That wouldn’t be a nice way to die I think. This is anther reason I think this was the worst war crime. I gather this information from www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/nuremberg.htm

Because of this information I think the worst war crime was committed by the Nazi’s because they gased and shot Jews and buried in mass graves this is why I think the Nazi’s committed the worst war crime.