(Judaism, 2008) The gas chambers had small windows for Nazis to watch the prisoners die. The gas chambers would hold about 900 people. Before the prisoners were taken into the gas chambers they would be forced to take their clothes off, and put them in a pile. The Nazis would lead the prisoners into the gas chambers and seal the door shut. Finally, once inside the gas chambers, carbon monoxide or powdered Zyklon B would be poured down from the holes that were put on the roofs of the gas chambers.
Lots of Jews were moved to ghettos in a “single stroke” on February 8, 1940. Once all of the Jews were moved to the concentration camps, the gates were closed to the ghettos in November of 1940 (Byers 72). The conditions of the ghettos were horrible. Most of the ghettos had high, sturdy walls, armed guards, and barbed wire (Allen 4). Germans made the Jews wear armbands, or identification badges, like the Jewish Star of David (Ghettos).
This left very few Jews in a condition to enter the camp. Such convincing methods were often used by the Germans to get work from the Jews and keep them going, until they died to illness and death, or until the humor of the German officers were fulfilled. After the Jews got off the trains, they were faced by a doctor at the entrance of the camp. Every prisoner was to be seen by the doctor, who would point to the left or the right with his thumb. An indication to the left meant the prisoner was to be put to death immediately.
comparative book review 8/24/15 Many people in life, have faced challenges, but very few have face was Eliezer and Ivan have. Eliezer grew up a teenage Jewish boy who was in the holocaust he is one of the few holocaust survivor still alive today. Ivan Denisovich was a part of the Russian gulags for ten years and had a story written about him to spread the word of what happened. According to the dictionary a Russian gulag is “A system of prison camps inside Russia used for political prisoners. Under Joseph Stalin, millions of prisoners in these camps died from starvation and abuse.” Ivan Denisovich, a survivor of these has gone through these camps for ten years.
Third, wherever Germany in Eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen were created to murder Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Finally, Jews and Romani were ordered to be live in overcrowded ghettos, there they were then transported by freight train to extermination camps. Extermination camps were camps that were built by Nazi Germany, during the World War II, that were designed to kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under terrible living conditions. The Nazis were not alone in this effort. Parish churches and the Interior Ministry supported the genocide by presenting birth records showing who was Jewish; the Post Office delivered the deportation and denaturalization orders; the Finance Ministry took away Jewish property; German businesses fired Jewish workers and took away stock that belonged to the Jews.
The inmates in the camps were forced to work and listen to Nazi ideas all day long. Death camps were set up later on. The police and law courts created new laws including the death penalty. The death penalty was sentenced to anyone who had sex with a Jew, telling an anti-Nazi joke and listening to a foreign radio station. The law courts were under Nazi control and did whatever the Nazis wanted.
This was the prison system in the 1700’s. Prisoners were punished by beheading, hung, whipped, and stoned. In the late 1700’s, Benjamin Henry Latrobe built the Walnut Street Jail it was used to reform prisoners instead of harsh punishment (Goodban, 2006). Prisoners received the bare necessities to sit, sleep, and eat were their only luxuries. When the death penalty was no more the jail suffered overcrowding which led to riots, escapes, and prison guards were attacked.
Nazi Death Marches During WWII, Hitler ordered for all Jews to be taken to work camps, where they were forced to work in with little to no food. Most of the time the Jews would be making stuff for the German army such as, tools or clothing. The Jews had to have a strong spirit, or they would perish. But, towards the end of the war American troops invaded Germany, finding the work camps. Afraid of the American troops finding the work camps; Hitler ordered all work camps to be evacuated to death camps deep in Germany.
Concentration Camps "When fate's got it in for you, there's no limit to what you may have to put up with" (Heyer 1). This quote is all to familiar to the situation many people faced when they were imprisoned in concentration camps. The concentration camps had an incredible effect on innocent civilians during WW2. From the rise of the Nazi power in 1933, the regime built many detention camps to imprison or kill so-called "enemies of the state." Most people believe that there were just Jews in the camps and to a certain extent this is true but there was many people there besides Jews.
Due to prison overcrowding, prisoners are currently sleeping on floors, in tents, in converted broom closets and gymnasiums, or even in double or triple bunks in cells, which were designed for one inmate. Why is this happening? The U.S. Judicial System has become so succumbed to the ideal that Imprisonment is the most visibly form of punishment. The current structure of this system is failing terribly.