http://www.rossel.net/Holocaust08.htm
Summary: SS men called Einsatzgruppen would dig huge graves in forests, then line Jews up and shoot them. They were given lethal injections with what was called euthanasia, or "mercy-killing" until Zyklon B gas was made. Jewish police were known as "kapos" and they shot anyone in the camps who disobeyed. Many people committed suicide, liking throwing themselves into electric wres. If anyone escaped, everyone in their 'group' was instantly killed.
Quotes: In the late nineteenth century, the British historian Lord Acton observed, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
The sanitary conditions were indescribable. There was one bathroom, always out of order, for a hut of four hundred people. ... From time to time we would get what they called "soup." Then they almost cut off the food supply altogether. ... Dead people lay outside on the paths of the camp. ... Women fought in the gutter for scraps of food garbage. [Testimony given at the Eichmann trial]
A shooting competition was begun between [two Nazi officers]. They would shoot out of their windows at the people marching back and forth loaded with stones, aiming at the tip of a nose or a finger. The injured people were "no good" any more and they would finish them off with a shot. [Testimony given at the Eichmann trial]
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