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Millions and millions of jewish and of all racis were murderer just because they didn't fit the perfect German image.
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The nazis HATED the jewish people becuase they didn't believe i what they believed in
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Around 64 million people died in WW2. It was one of the most deaths in a war in history.
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The Germans had at least 600,000n deaths
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The reason for the treblinka rebellion so that they could live and not be gassed to death.
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Treblinka was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was located in a forest north-east of Warsaw, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of the Treblinka train station in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship.
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Treblinka was built in between April- july, they started to using in july of 1942 and stop using in october of 1943, they also had 6 gas chambers
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The British fought back the nazits by attacking Mannheim, Germany
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The United States could not join the war until 1941 becuase they were in war with Japan
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The german army surrendered and ended the war
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Both of Willenberg’s sisters, Ita and Tamara, perished in the camp. Willenberg realised that they had been killed when he saw a pile of their clothes outside the death chamber.
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Single Allied bombing operations over Hamburg and Dresden in July 1943 and February 1945 killed 40,000 and 25,000 civilians, respectively. Hundreds of thousands more were made refugees.
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Estimated 300 inmates who escaped from Treblinka the day, about 100 survived the massive manhunt.
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Treblinka was second only to Auschwitz in the number of Jews who were killed by the Nazis: between 700,000 and 900,000, compared to an estimated 1.1 million to 1.5 million at Auschwitz.
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Once the chamber doors were sealed, an engine installed outside the building pumped carbon monoxide into the gas chambers, killing those inside.
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About 870,000 people died in the gas chambers at Treblinka - more than anywhere else except Auschwitz.
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One of the 17,000 symbolic stones represents the city of Kielce in central Poland, where 42 Jews were killed by a mob of Polish citizens in a pogrom, long after the Nazi occupation had ended. Today Kielce is a modern industrial city with a population of 210,000, located between Warsaw and Krakow.
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Treblinka's commandant, Franz Stangl, was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1970 following his trial in the west German city of Duesseldorf.
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"Since my visit to Treblinka in 1998, I have learned that some tour guides now tell visitors that the number of 17,000 stones in the symbolic cemetery represents the highest number of Jews that were gassed in a single day when the camp was in operation"
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Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Nazi Germany's Treblinka death camp in Poland, has died in Israel aged 93.
