extermination

Examples of extermination in the following topics:

• The Holocaust

  • The use of extermination camps (also called "death camps") equipped with gas chambers for the systematic mass extermination of peoples was an unprecedented feature of the Holocaust.
  • Others were sent immediately to the extermination plants.
  • Children of tender years were invariably exterminated, since by reason of their youth they were unable to work.
  • Very frequently women would hide their children under the clothes but of course when we found them we would send the children in to be exterminated.
  • We were required to carry out these exterminations in secrecy but of course the foul and nauseating stench from the continuous burning of bodies permeated the entire area and all of the people living in the surrounding communities knew that exterminations were going on at Auschwitz.

• Introduction to the Four Functions of Governmen

  • For most people the general undesirability of private-involuntary associations (robber-victim, air polluter-victim) and of compound-involuntary ones (the Nazi extermination campaign against Jews, military conscription, arbitrary economic regulations) is implicit in the examples we have adduced.

• The Holocaust

  • Holocaust scholars draw a distinction between extermination camps and concentration camps.
  • Instead, the ghettos' inhabitants were sent to extermination camps.
  • The use of extermination camps (also called "death camps") equipped with gas chambers for the systematic mass extermination of peoples was an unprecedented feature of the Holocaust.
  • A distinctive feature of Nazi genocide was also the extensive use of human subjects in "medical" experiments carried in both extermination and concentration camps.
  • Some extermination and concentration camps were liberated by Allied powers in their final march through Europe on the way to defeat Nazi Germany.

• Genocide

  • Extermination:"It is 'extermination' to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human".

• The Indian Response

  • These prophecies predicted the extermination of the European Americans.

• Justification of Government

  • During a transition period, the "dictatorship of the proletariat", the bourgeoisie is gradually "liquidated", an ambiguous term which might mean anything from physical extermination of its members to their absorption into the ranks of the proletariat.

• Clarifying Ambiguous Words

  • Perhaps the only thing we can be sure about is that there is room for legitimate disagreement here as to the best possible strategies for exterminating racism.

• The Third Intermediate Period

  • With the Saite kings exterminated, Camybes assumed the formal title of Pharaoh.

• The Fall of the Han and the Three Kingdoms Period

  • He Jin wanted to exterminate the Ten Attendants, a group of influential eunuch officials.

• Obedience

  • The Holocaust resulted in the extermination of millions of Jews, Gypsies, and communists; it has prompted us to take a closer look at the roots of obedience—in part, so that tragedies such as this may never happen again.