During the Holocaust, life in the concentration camps were unbearable, especially for the Jews. Hitler blamed the Jews for making Germany impure. Considering Aryans as the superior race and Jews as the inferior race, Hitler had a six step plan to get rid of the Jews and all the other undesirable people in Germany. The first part of the plan was scapegoating. Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s problems and got the Germans to blame them too. Second, he collected a party of hate, which were known as the Nazis. Third, he rose to political power. Hitler became the chancellor of Germany. Having total power, Hitler executed the fourth part of his plan- he placed discriminatory laws on the Jews. These laws, called the Nuremberg laws, placed …show more content…
Many Holocaust survivors recall the terrible experience of being pregnant but knowing they would not be able to keep their baby. “In the initial selection, pregnancy was an automatic pre cursor for death for women.” They would be immediately sent to the gas chambers. Women who fell pregnant during their stay in camp would undergo an abortion as late as five months into the pregnancy. “While the child was successfully aborted, in many cases the mothers themselves did not survive.” Women also suffered with menstruation, something that men did not have to go through. Menstruation caused two major concerns for women- excessive bleeding and humiliation. Excessive bleeding was a problem because women did not have the necessary sanitary products to take care of the problem. Survivors recall the pure humiliation of leaving stains on their clothes and around the camp. “Stains were against the aesthetics of the camps and women who were found to have bloodstains on their tunics were gassed.” However, holocaust testimonies reveal that many women were not able to menstruate after being in the camps for a few weeks. This was both due to a lack of nutrition and the psychological stress and horror of being in the camps. Many women recall that this was both a relieving feeling but also sad because it was a symbol of their
Hitler wanted to create a perfect race of people and to create it, he killed off those that were not suited for his perfect world. In this group were homosexuals, people with disabilities, and Jewish people. They were taken to camps where they dropped like flies. One of the many horrors of the death camps were the crematoriums, where people were burned alive. Small children and babies were thrown into pits of fire because they could not work.
They were also constantly tortured and experimented on randomly. They were constantly dehumanized and treated more as cattle. In the book, Ellie Weisel discussed how the Jews lost their identity, which was the only thing making them human. Being called a mix of words and numbers takes a toll on your mental health, mainly to the Jews. During the time of the holocaust there weren't many doctors that knew about PTSD, so many Jews that survived, went undiagnosed.
At the camps the people are forced to work, and are killed for not working, or not being able to work. The people were taken to gas chambers, beat to death, or just left to die. Often after a person died they would burn the body. “ It cannot be true what they whisper here, that people are being burned in there …” (Sender 164), Ruth does not realize that people are really being burned in the chymes, because they don’t tell the “prisoners”.
Niree’ Miller Mrs.Cannady English 2 Honors 4 March 2016 Holocaust In the 1940’s the Germans wanted to take rights and terminate the Jews. Some people tried to save Jews and help them by hiding them in their houses. Germans put over 6 million Jews in concentration camps and made them do work without pay, little food, and water. Women and very little children often got sent to gas chambers upon arrival.
Attempts to commit rape by force or threat of force are also included (“Sexual Assault and Rape”).” While in the camps, many of the women were raped by the German guards
Also the SS men made all the prisoners look the same so they could all feel like there was no place for them. Also the SS men’s form of dehumanization was abuse and the SS men were hurting the prisoners in many violent ways including, whipping , hitting, blows to the head, barley feeding them, forcing them to get tattoos of numbers on their arms that they have to live with forever, and much more. The prisoners had to live with these scars and memories for the rest of their lives and always have a memory of what it was like in the holocaust always in the back of their mind. It's a very awful experience that they went through while in the concentration
During the 1930’s and 40’s Nazi Germany was a dictatorship ruled by Adolf Hitler he was a cruel dictator who had a goal to eliminate all european jews this shows in “Law,Justice,and the Holocaust” where it says that he and The Nazis mainly targeted people of the Jewish faith, at the end of the war they successfully killed six million jewish men,women, and children. This event was known as the holocaust. Hitler was a very cruel and hated man by the people who weren’t being schooled by the Nazis.
The lack of basic hygiene was a very large issue around this time. The living conditions at the camps were disgusting, with piled up garbage and rotten
The Holocaust was a horrible tragedy in which the germans caused near 6 million Jewish casualties. It was an attempt of mass genocide, from Hitler’s perspective he was cleansing the world of inferior peoples. At first he attempted to deport the Jews. Soon, countries refused to accept them. Then to contain them and use them for labor.
When rising to power, Hitler sees the Jewish people as the enemy race. As a result, he plans to exterminate every last one of them. Wicked men of his Nazi army captured Jews, then changed them profoundly; they took
When rising to power, Hitler sees the Jewish people as the enemy race. As a result, he plans to exterminate every last one of them. Wicked men of his Nazi army captured Jews, then changed them profoundly; they took away their homes and all
During this time 6,000,000 Jews were killed, not by war, but rather at the hands of Germany. Hitler believed that Jews were an inferior race and was a threat to German purity. After years of being mistreated Hitler had a plan called the Final Solution, which was the attempt to extinct the entire Jewish Population. Germany would accomplish this by concentration camps that were set up in Poland.
While some Jews’ lives were immediately taken by the Nazis at the entrance to the camps, the ones who stayed alive were who suffered
“At every step, somebody fell down and ceased to suffer.” This quote by Elie Wiesel explains the people that were Giving up after hunger and loss of family and he noticed these things everyday at the camps and lived to tell the tragic story in his book Night. Dehumanization was a major occurrence in the concentration camps which killed off over six million Jews. Lack of food, cramped and exhausting ways of transportation and separation of families during the Holocaust was the worst ways of dehumanizing the Jews and it was going on for years with no help. Food was scarce for the Jews in some areas around World War Two, so every little thing mattered evento the point of killing others.
The Holocaust is a time in history when millions of people were persecuted in Europe by being sent to live in ghettos and eventually being deported to concentration camps where they were systematically annihilated until the Allied forces liberated the remaining survivors. The Jews were moved to the ghettos, because Hitler pushed the Jews to move to the east, then they concore move of the east and move them more to the east. Then “there was no more room for them to move to the east, so they built ghettos for them to live” (Byers 32). But his true intentions were to “separate the Jewish people from manly Germans and also other races” (Allen 37).