Auschwitz Day || Documentary amazing
The Wannsee Conference was held January 20, 1942 in Berlin to coordinate the implementation of the final solution proposed at Wannsee, the SS estimated that the final solution that was already underway would ultimately involve 11 million European Jews; Nazi planners envisioned the inclusion of Jews living in neutral countries or unoccupied such as Ireland, Sweden, Turkey and Great Britain.
The European rail network played a crucial role in the implementation of the Final Solution Jews of Germany and Europe occupied by the Germans were deported by rail to extermination centers in occupied Poland the Germans were trying to hide their murderous intentions, referring to the relocation of deportations to the east the victims said they were taken to labor camps, but in reality, from 1942, deportation for most Jews meant transit to the extermination camps.
Deportations this scale required the coordination of many agencies of government departments and the German state, including the Main Office of Reich Security RSHA, the Ministry of Transport, and the Foreign Office RSHA coordinated and directed the deportations; the Department of Transport has organized train schedules; and the Foreign Office negotiated with German-allied states about handing their Jews.
The Germans used both freight cars and passenger deportations They did not provide the deportees with food or water, even if the transport had to wait days on railroad spurs for other trains to pass those deported in wagons sealed goods suffered from the intense heat of summer, freezing in winter temperatures and the smell of urine and excrement in addition to a bucket, he n ' there was no provision for the health needs without food or water, many deportees died before the trains reached their destinations armed guards shot anyone trying to escape Between fall 1941 and fall 1944, millions people were transported by rail to the extermination camps and other sites by killing occupied Poland and the occupied Soviet Union.
DIMENSIONS OF RAILROAD CAR IN EXPOSED US. MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST
There were many different types of cars used for deportations, varying in size and weight The rail car on display in the permanent exhibition of the museum is one type used.
To give an idea of how the cars vary in size, we have provided the dimensions of the passenger car on the screen and the size of average freight car used for deportations in Hungary is not certain the passenger car on display in the permanent exhibition of the Museum was used for the deportation of human beings, but it is typical of the type of wagon used in the deportations of the German Reich.
Total length of 31 feet 6 inches 9 6 meters; interior space for 26 remote foot-2 8 meters.
Total height 14 feet 4 to 3 meters from the bottom of the wheel at the highest point of the car; interior space for deported ceiling curves downwardly from the means 7 feet 4 inch 2 2 meters from the center; 7-foot-2 1 meters on the sides.
Total width 13 feet 2 inches 4 meters including the roof; inner space for 8 remote feet 10 inch 2 7 meters.
DIMENSIONS OF CARGO BY opportunity to EVICTION IN HUNGARY.
Source for the dimensions of the Hungarian rail car Randolph L Braham, Genocide Politics The Holocaust in Hungary, Volume 1 New York The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, 1994, p 686.
The museum provides the railway dimensions of the car because of its importance as a historical artifact, however, please refer to the guidance of teachers of the Museum of hazard information to simulate the basis of a overall physical dimensions of the experience of deportation during the Holocaust for discussion of the dangers of the simulations in the classroom and role plays about the Holocaust, please see the guideline on methodological choice in the related links below.
The German Railways and the Holocaust, German Holocaust remote interior, Deported feet inches.