During World War II, the Nazi regime created death factories in places like Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Sobibor. Their goal? To murder millions — mostly Jews — with terrifying efficiency. What happened inside these chambers was so horrific, even Allied soldiers couldn’t believe the reports at first.
Here’s how it worked:
New arrivals were told to undress for “disinfection.” Mothers held their children. Men clutched soap bars they’d never need. Then, they were herded into sealed rooms disguised as showers — complete with fake nozzles.
At Auschwitz, guards dropped Zyklon B pellets through openings in the ceiling. In the heat, the pellets released a cyanide gas that killed everyone inside in just 10 to 20 minutes. In camps like Treblinka and Belzec, death came via carbon monoxide, piped from engines into the chambers.
What came next was just as disturbing. Special prisoner units called Sonderkommandos were forced to drag out the bodies, extract gold teeth, shave hair, and burn the corpses in crematoria or open pits.
This wasn’t chaos. It was industrial-scale genocide, planned down to the last detail. More than 3 million people were murdered this way.
And the world only learned the full truth when the camps were liberated and the Nazis couldn’t hide the evidence.
Why did it happen? How could it go so far? Those questions still haunt us. But one thing is clear: we must never forget what took place behind those locked steel doors.