A way had to be found to speed up the killing process too. “The killing had to go up by 2,000 a month at Ravensbrück during this time,” says Helm. Instead, in the view of warped Nazi ideology at any rate, it became a practical way of controlling population numbers in horrifically overcrowded work camps. “In this climate, began taking the view that the only way to solve this problem was to kill more people.”Ĭrucially, though, Helm makes clear, the killing that began at Ravensbrück during this time meant gassing ceased to be an ideological process of extermination. Still, Hitler insisted that every last Jew be removed from Hungary before the Red Army arrived.Īuschwitz was no longer operating after November 1944, so many began to be marched towards Germany,” Helm explains. Thus transportation of people across Eastern Europe had become a major problem. By October 1944 the Horthy government in Budapest had fallen, and Allied bombs had destroyed train lines. The Hungarian exodus impacted massively on Ravensbrück too, especially the Jews of Hungary, many of whom were sent to Auschwitz.
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