World War II Pows

POW camps have always been found during wars as warriors are captured. From the Egyptians who used the captured enemy combatants as workers, to the Terrorists who use them for information. They are known to be cruel and inescapable. They strike fear into those who have lived there. These camps were believed to be a place where even the Devil wouldn’t dare go.

The soldiers in WW1 had poor living conditions. The conditions in the trenches was wet infested with rats lice and many people suffered from trench foot. Front line soldiers could be expected to advance across no man 's land towards the enemy frontline trenches, in the face of shelling, machine gun fire and barbed wire defences.

Living as a Jew between 1933-1945 was a hard life in Germany. They were tortured in concentration camps and death camps all over Germany. Other people were also sent to concentration camps and death camps. Some of them were criminals, handi-cap, homosexuals, and Romani.

The Holocaust Concentration Camps: Auschwitz The Holocaust was a horrid experience. The Holocaust came about because Adolf Hitler was upset over the loss of World War I. Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany’s loss in World War I, and he wanted to take over Germany, with that came him thinking he had to get rid of all the Jewish people. So after the loss of World War I, he tried and succeeded with the extermination of most of the Jews.

Billy’s character in Slaughterhouse-Five clearly evidences post of traumatic stress because of what he experienced was traumatizing. After every war people suffered post traumatic stress. Entire families, not just the boys/men who were soldiers in war lived with the effects of post traumatic stress. Even the families of captured American soldiers, families who were safe here in the US, did not know if their loved ones would ever come back home but Red Cross let few of the families know if their family members in war are dead or alive.

Japan started World War Two because they were going through an economic crisis and believed that China had oil, which was what they needed. That was the start of Japan’s involvement, which over time progressed to the other countries. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 which blindsided America. The U.S decided to move all Japanese-Americans and relocate them to a designated area to protect the U.S from the possibility of any Japanese-Americans helping Japan from the U.S. These actions would change the life of Japanese-Americans forever.

World War two was an awful time for everyone. People died and went through tough times. One place that was also awful and where millions of Jews were killed was concentration camps. Concentration camps first came around after Hitler was elected as Chancellor. In the camps there wasn 't a lot of food or water so people, mostly died of starvation and dehydration.

It happened, shamefully, under the blanket of silence. Muffled screams of pain and sorrow were unheard to the rest of the world. The blanket smothered it all: hangings, rapings, massacres, burnings, a war. They called the Guatemalan genocide “the Silent Holocaust” (“Guatemala 1982”). But it was not silent to indigenous Guatemalans of all cultures, to Mayans, or to those in the Guerilla Army of the Poor.

I believe I would quit and not renew my enlistment in the Continental Army. My reasoning for this is that there were very bad conditions that the soldiers had to live in. One of the conditions that the soldiers in the Continental Army had to suffer through was their shelter situation. The soldiers were sleeping and living in log “huts”.

The ideas that are often associated with World War II are usually related to the deadly warfare that occurred, Nazi Germany, and the utilization of the atomic bomb. However, one of the most overlooked and appalling events that took place throughout World War II was the internment of Japanese Americans. The first prominent event that lead to the start of internment was the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941. Consequently, the bombing spurred fear among millions of Americans which would eventually lead the United States into World War II.