Concentration Camps
When Adolf Hitler was in power, he set up approximately 20,000 Concentration Camps. The first one Hitler set up was in Poland, 1941. Out of all the Concentration Camps, Auschwitz was one of the worst. It was a labor camp, but it was also used for Hitler’s FINAL SOLUTION, or the extermination of the Jews. It had the most elaborate killing system/Gas Chambers. After it was abandoned on Jan. 27, 1945 because of the Soviet Union’s invasion, the Nazis made an attempt to make Auschwitz ll and lll (Britannica School). Today’s people are forgetting the true impact of WW ll. We are protecting our children and ourselves from the cold hard truth when we should instead be remembering and telling our children about those 6 million
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Auschwitz was mainly for working, but it still had gas chambers and crematories for the people that collapsed while working. Majdanek was also mainly for work, and the Nazis didn’t feed them enough so the Jews were very malnourished (Weglyn). Out of all the camps, work camps were the most useful for Hitler because if you 're going to imprison someone, better to just make them useful to you instead of killing off.
Extermination Camps were mostly built to support Hitler in his FINAL SOLUTION. There were many camps built and used during this time such as Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz-Birkenau, all of which were located in Germany. These 6 camps were all built within a very small period of time so Hitler could get started on his plans right away. Before the Nazis put the Jews to work/sent them to be killed, they removed accessories/valuable items such as glasses, gold teeth, jewelry, clothing and even hair (Kaplan).
Adolf Hitler set up around 20,000 camps when he was ruler of Germany. People need to be remembering these harrowing times because millions died and only a few continue to remember the Holocaust anymore (Britannica School). I think that everyone should keep remembering so that we don’t have to experience that distress again, and because all people should have freedom of religion and be able to live
The Holocaust lasted for some years and millions were killed during those years. Adolf Hitler was a cruel leader of Nazi Germany. He treated the Jews and others extremely wrong. Auschwitz was where the concentration camp was and numerous people were killed in Auschwitz. Concentration camps were where most people died at, they arrived at the camps by being loaded up into traincarts.
Bergen-Belsen Have you ever hear of the Holocaust? Well according to history, it was one of the most sad and depressing eras. Although there were many camps created by Adolf Hitler, the Bergen Belsen camp was the worst womens camp there could be. Hitler was an important icon to this camp and the reason why it ended. ¨Adolf Hitler set up his first concentration camp in 1933, soon after coming to power.¨ (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk).
Auschwitz: German Nazis made over 40,000 concentration camps between the years of 1933 and 1945 concentration camps were just like prisons. The “ prisoners “ were kept in extremely jarring ways. Auschwitz is one of the biggest concentration camps located in Southern Poland. Auschwitz is one of the biggest camps because it consist of three other camps into one like an assembly line. The three camps were a prison camp, a exterminated camp and a slave labor camp.
Bergen-Belsen was one of the worst concentration camps there were during Hitler’s terrible reign over Germany and Europe. He produced these concentration camps, and they were designed to make Jews suffer. There were many concentration camps during this reign, but Bergen-Belsen was one of the worst. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was used as a holding camp for the Jewish prisoners. The camp was divided into eight sections, a detention camp, two women’s camps, a special camp, neutrals camps, “star” camp (mainly Dutch prisoners who wore the Yellow Star on their clothing instead of the camp uniform), Hungarian camp and a tent camp.
Auschwitz, specifically the branch Auschwitz-Birkenau, was the largest of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. A concentration camp was a place where diverse groups of people were imprisoned and slowly eliminated due to intentionally harmful circumstances, making survival unfeasible. A direct extermination center was a place where Jews and other groups of victims were exterminated, through the use of gas chambers. Most of the prisoners who were sent to the Auschwitz complex died in Birkenau. The two perspectives of Auschwitz-Birkenau that I will be analyzing are a diary entry from Helga Weiss, a Holocaust survivor and the other from a website created by the Memorial and Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
There were more than 40,000 camps in the years of 1933 and 1945. The camps were used to hurt people, murder them, work for the Nazis, and many more terrible things. In September 1939 the Nazis opened a forced labor camp where many jews were starved, exposure,and being extremely tired. In a few camps they would do medical experiments on the prisoners. Sadly many people died from gas chambers where the prisoners had gas sprayed in there faces to the point of death.
There were many different kinds of camps including concentration camps, extermination camps, forced labor camps, and even prisoner of war camps. Concentration camps are one of the most commonly known of these. Torture was a very large factor in all of the early camps and the inmates inside the camps were all regularly beaten and or humiliated. In addition to this, access to facilities was often withheld as a form of torture and control. In the concentration camps, inmates were subjected to brutal torture and beatings almost daily along with many different forms of hard back-breaking labor.
At the Concentration camps, which there were around 40,000 camps or incarceration sites, they did hard labor, the victims were malnourished and abused. The ‘Jews’ get murdered in large groups. For example: Burning them in boiling water, starvation, having the Jews dig pits; shooting them down in their own grave, and the most famous, gas chambers. Gas Chambers was a large room where the Nazi’s piled the Jews into, and locking them in and opening a hole at the top where they would let the gas flow in; killing them all in the matter of minutes.
The Horrors of Auschwitz The Holocaust, which started in 1933 and continued to 1945 was an awful time where Jews were murdered and sent to concentration camps to die. In Poland one of the largest concentration camps, Auschwitz, where 1.3 million people died. Auschwitz, the death camp, was a horrible place where many people died, lost hope, and were stripped of civilization all because of their religion and race.
The very first concentration camp was set up in Dachau, Germany in 1933. Concentration camps kept opening up and being used all the way through to the end of World War II in 1945. As so many camps opened their had to be someone to build them for the prisoners of war, and believe it or not it was the prisoners themselves who had to build their own soon to be torture and sleeping chambers. In the Holocaust up to 6 million Jewish citizens died in either concentration camps or on the street. In the concentration camps people were either killed by being shot, gassed with poisonous gasses, tortured, or by catching a deathly disease or virus but prier to this they had to live in poor, poor living conditions.
The concentration camps during the Third Reich played a large part in containing and exterminating enemies of the Nazi regime. Before the Second World War the camp system expanded with the addition of camps like Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, and Auschwitz, as the need for prisoner labour increased to help the war effort; these camps were set up in 1933 and extended after 1937 until the end of the war. In the concentration camps the Nazis pioneered new methods of mass detention, abuse, and extermination, driven by a mix of extreme nationalism, bio-politics and racial anti-Semitism. The camps not only served to use the prisoners for labour and mass murders, but were also a place where Nazi physicians could conduct human experiments
A train took them there and if they try to escape, they would be shot at. Jews had to work at concentration camps with horrible treatments while Jews at death camps would be killed by guns or poison gas and some would be experimented on. The Nazi’s tried to keep their mass killings of Jews a secret. However, when the war ended, the world was shown the horrific places the Nazi’s had built and the people were horrified of Germany’s actions.
The Jews did not really start being placed in concentration camps until 1934. The reason for this is because that is when the SS got its independence from the SA, which meant the SS could do more of what the Nazis asked them to do(CONCENTRATION). The concentration camps were awful. The prisoners were forced to do a useless and hard task.
The first concentration camps were set up for Polish prisoners and officials. The camps were labor camps where the detained would be forced to do grueling work with harsh, long hours. The first camps also housed many misfits including gypsies, roma and transgender people who the Nazi saw as weak, and intolerable. After the occupation of Poland in late 1939 the Nazi started capturing the Jews and putting them into the camps where they started to talk about the “Final Solution” or the end of all the Jews, and possibly of the whole world. The Nazi tried to hide this plan as much as possible, to not seem cruel when they actually were.
This was such a tragic time in history and we should all be thankful that our world isn 't like this. The Concentration Camps were made because Hitler hated the jews and wanted to kill all and they were kind of brainwashing them to tell them it is a wonderful place to live. When they were making the camps the Nazis would go around just shooting people for no reason. So Hitler and the Nazis captured the majority of the Jews and put them into these camps saying they should be here and that they deserve to died and it is all their fault.