- Towards the end of the WWII Hitler knew the advancing Allies would soon win the war. Hitler also knew that being so soon after WWI the world would not take kindly to his actions of genocide and hit Germany with harder consequences than that of WWI, so he commanded that all remaining Jews be killed and the camps be destroyed.
After receiving these orders the SS guard began to gas as many Jews that were left in the camps as possible. Many camps accomplished this, but other camps were taken over by Allied troops. The camps that were able to carry out Adolf Hitler's orders gassed the remaining Jews, burned the bodies, and scattered the ashes in the thick woods.
After an infantry of American soldiers successfully won a camp in a long fought battle against Nazi and SS guards, a Lieutenant was walking through the woods and noticed "The dirt wasn't a normal brown, it was gray and as I felt the ground run through my fingers i could see the fragments of human bones."
Byers, Ann. The Holocaust Camps.Springfield:
Enslow publishers.1998.Print.
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