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             "Death seemed to guard all exits." This motto defined the fate of the millions of Europeans between 1941 and 1945. As the Nazi Germany gained control of one country after another in World War 2, the killing of Jews, Gypsies, Slaves, Poles, Homosexuals, and more began. The Nazi's built concentration camps to enforce unspeakable treatment and murder upon the Europeans.
             As World War 2 began, Hitler ordered to kill institutionalized, handicapped patients that were labeled incurable. They were taken to institutions in Germany and Austria where gas chambers were used to kill them. After the public protested in 1941 the nazi leaders still went on with this plane but in secret. Killing even babies with lethal injection, pills, and forced starvation. This was the Euthanasia program. It contained all the elements required for a mass murder. That mass murder accured during World War two.
             In 1940, Germany forces continued their conquest through Europe. Easily defeating Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, And France. On June 22, 1941 the German army invaded the Soviet Union. When I asked my grandma if she knew what was going around in Europe she told me, "Ewa, my parents were so scared, because the Nazis were all over Europe, imprisoning Jews, Poles, and more. It didn't matter if you were rich, poor, Jewish or not. The nazi had control and they took who ever they wanted. I myself was a young girl, not a Jew, but young and strong. In Nazi words a good, healthy worker. In the village where I lived, the (sotys) in English like the mayor of the village had to send young teenagers, kids to Germany. I was picked to go. I worked on a farm. The thought of me leaving my parents, my home, scared me to the point of becoming ill. My parents and all of the other parents didn't know what would happen to us. Some many stories went around our village of what the Nazis were doing to the Europeans."
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