Totalitarianism In Ww2

The traits of totalitarianism were responsible for the atrocities of the WW2 era determined by the threatening of the military towards the Kulaks and sending them to Gulag camps, the persecution of Jews in the concentration and extermination camps, and the control of individual listing who were Jewish in the Nuremburg Laws leading to the atrocity of the Kristallnacht.

The traits of totalitarianism were responsible for the atrocities of the WW2 era because of the terrorism of the military, sending Kulaks to Gulag camps. Military terror is the process of using the military’s seniority to force obedience and to crush the opponents. The goal of this trait is to support the government interests instead of the people’s. Using this trait helps to

Persecution is the act of eliminating a large number of enemies for their ethnic, religious, or political reason to help support the power of the government. Using persecution, Hitler was able to gain the power of support from others to go against the Jews and his other enemies. He had used and created concentration camps and extermination camps to eliminate his enemies. A method the Nazis used to kill the Jews as fast as possible were to put them in gas chambers. Prisoners arrived in a train and were told to take off any clothes and possessions taken. They are then herded and taken into what are called “showers”, when in reality they are gas chambers. Sometimes the Nazis go as far as giving them a towel or soap to avoid an sign of panic ( The Holocaust Lecture, Gas Chambers). They made Jews work as slave laborers who were undernourished and tortured. There were about 15k camps in several countries, but there were 6 major camps that were created to exterminate, located in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. These extermination camps were designed to kill as many Jews as possible (The Holocaust Lecture, Extermination Camps). In the Treblinka extermination camps, the engineers who controlled the rail stations entered the camp backwards so the dead bodies would not be seen. During the transports in Treblinka camps, the Jews were too overwhelmed in the small gas chambers that the Trawniki men had to resort to shooting (The Holocaust Lecture, Extermination camp case study: Treblinka Camp). Later, Treblinka had created a fake train station that were not surrounded by dead bodies and even included a clock, ticket counter, and music playing. Treblinka had also created fake clinics to kill those who were weak and