>>17919938
>What did this even accomplish?

Combination of

>ideological catharsis
>robbing the victims of their personal possessions in order to keep Germany's civilian economy afloat
>using the victims they didn't kill immediately as slaves

>Were the Nazis clinically retarded?

Yes

>>17919967

Gassing operations were halted at Auschwitz in November, 1944 and preparations were made to destroy the gas chambers and crematoriums. The kids you're seeing in these photos would have been deportees from Hungary who presumably arrived in the two month window between when gassing operations stopped and when Auschwitz was abandoned for good following the Vistula-Oder offensive in January, 1945.

>>17920136

That's literally what happened to nearly two million Soviet prisoners of war in 1941.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeRR100incE