Complete essay. Includes: research, quotes, websites used (sited), and word count. The Horror of Dachau Dachau is a horrific place; an estimated 35,000 prisoners died there. The camp was opened on March 20, 1933 by Henirich Himmler. Five days later, Dachau was exempted from Judicial Authority, and then the Punishments an Administrations Regulations act was passed, which meant that it was removed from judicial oversight and the SS guards would have authority over camp prisoners.
Most prisoners died from exhaustion, starvation, or disease and exposure. In some of the forced-labor camps Nazi doctors would experiment on the prisoners ("Forced" 1). Those that were gay would get experimented on in order to hope to find a cure for homosexuality ("Living" 1). From 1939 to 1942 was marked the expansion of concentration camps. In September 1939 the war provided an excuse to ban the release of anyone in the concentration camps ("Labor" 1).
To this day it is a US National Historic Landmark. Eastern State Penitentiary was designed to hold 250 prisoners in total solitary confinement. An architect named John Haviland was hired to build the prison. His design was a “hub and spoke”, almost like a bicycle wheel. This type of design allowed for a “constant surveillance of the prison from a central rotunda.” (Prairi 2) When the prison first opened “the Quakers of Philadelphia established a new method of incarceration which dealt with “penitence” for the lawbreaker.” (Prairi 1) This new method consisted of solitary confinement.
Many of them worked to death or died of starvation. In the last days of the Nazi regime, from 1942 to 1944, the Auschwitz camp was used as an extermination camp. That is run mainly served to prisoners of the Jewish origin. Through processes such as gas chamber, crematorium and shootings, Jewish people were executed. This period was known as the stage of final judgment.
Women also served in the health community, as they were working in hospitals in Europe and Britain. Women’s Royal Canadian Naval services (WRCNS) On July 1942, the Royal Canadian Navy created the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval services. Due to shortage and need of more men for the war, this service was created. During World War II, it became patriotic for all women to help with warfare. For this reason women performed jobs that were supposed to be done by men.
Majdanek The time of the Holocaust was horrific in so many ways and it’s hard to capture every situation through the traumatic time. Majdanek was one of the many concentration camps where these traumatic events took place. Located in Lublin, Poland Majdanek started its operation October 1, 1941 as an SS-run POW camp, to hold a max of 25,000 prisoners of war in the form of a labor camp under the command of commandant Karl Koch and the Waffen SS as its intent was to supply laborers for the SS industries. It became a concentration camp February 16,1943 when thousands of children, and polish Jews were tortured along with Soviet prisoners ("Majdanek Report."). The 2.7 square kilometer camp, surrounded by electrified barbwire and large watchtowers, was built in no time, as Germans needed a place to imprison those captured.
Dealing on the black market, he lived in high style. In 1942 and early 1943, the Germans decimated the ghetto’s population of some 20,000 Jews through shootings and deportations. Several thousand Jews who survived the ghetto’s liquidation were taken to Plaszow, a forced labor camp run by the sadistic SS commandant Amon Leopold Goeth. Moved by the cruelties he witnessed, Schindler contrived to transfer his Jewish workers to barracks at his factory. In late summer 1944, through negotiations and bribes from his war profits, Schindler secured permission from German army and SS officers to move his workers and other endangered Jews to Bruennlitz, near his hometown of Zwittau.
Sometimes, there were thousands of Jews being killed every day. Approximately, 11 million people were killed along with 6 million Jews and 1.1 million children. The Nazis killed two-thirds of the Jewish population
Frank Doumbe History of the Holocaust Final Exam Fall 2012 Dr. Fritz Part I: Essay: Answer the following question (40 points): A. Christopher Browning has noted in Ordinary Men that in “March 1942 some 75-80% of all victims of the Holocaust were still alive, while 20-25% had perished. A mere eleven months later, in mid-February 1943, the percentages were exactly the reverse. At the core of the Holocaust was a short, intense wave of mass murder.” How was such extensive mass murder possible in such a short period of time? This task required a massive mobilization of soldiers and voluntary involvement of local populations to carry out these acts, and that this mobilization of troops for the sake of carrying out genocide occurred at the same time that large numbers of German soldiers and material were committed to the battle for Stalingrad. They’ve been ordered to do
Some of the most well-known are Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Chelmno, Buchenwald, Neuengamme and Majdanek. Jews, other racial minorities and people who were considered enemies of Hitler’s regime were deported to these camps and forced to work in horrendous living conditions. Thousands of inmates died of starvation, overwork, exposure to the elements, epidemics and disease. Those who were unfit for labour including women, children, the elderly and the sick were immediately gassed and their bodies either cremated or dumped into mass