Camelia McCallum Mrs. Heiden SOPH CP LA 25 April 2011 Crucial Times of the Holocaust What man would create a breeding ground for extreme discrimination of his own people? Throughout the Second World War the chancellor of Germany allowed the brutal murderers of over six million Jewish German citizens. The killing of the innocent people took place in concentration camps in the span of a few years. Two infamous death camps were Auschwitz two Birkenau and Mauthausen. Even though Birkenau and Muahthausen had differences, they both are historically some of the worst concentration camps of the Holocaust.
KZ Dachau was the first concentration camp established in Nazi Germany - the camp was opened on March 22nd, 1933. The camp's first inmates were primarily political prisoners, Social Democrats, Communists, trade unionists, habitual criminals, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, beggars, vagrants, hawkers. in Auschwitz concentration camp included the dreadful living conditions, which varied during the years that the camp operated, and were different in each part of the camp. In Auschwitz I, prisoners lived in old brick barracks. Several hundred three-tier wooden bunk beds were installed in each building.
Hitler opened “camps”; he opened many different kinds of camps, all with different purposes. Hitler created concentration camps, transit camps, prisoner-of-war camps, labor camps, and most importantly, extermination camps; as a whole, the camps were generally referred to as Concentration Camps. After Kristallnacht, the persecution of Jews became more prominent and more organized, leading to a direct increase in the number of Jews being sent to Concentration Camps. Life within Hitler’s Concentration Camps was extremely difficult, and deaths were frequent. Prisoners were forced to participate in hard labor and were given small rations.
Concentration camps were built for the prisoners to perform hard labor and be provided little food. It was the Nazis’ way of starving the prisoners to death. Prisoners often slept at least 3 people in the same bunk that had no mattress, pillow, or covers. Prisoners were used for medical experiments. They were sterilized and tortured.
The Holocaust Amanda Marie Flores HIS 104 World Civilizations II Instructor: Jennifer Bridges November 27th 2011 Holocaust is a Greek word coming from the word “holos” meaning (whole), and “kaustos” meaning (burned). The holocaust was a state-sponsored discrimination along with murder of about six million Jews by the collaboration of the Nazi regime. The Nazis who were in power in Germany in January of 1933, believed that the Jews reckoned inferior, and the Germens were racially superior to the fact. Adolf Hitler was one of the men who helped form the Holocaust, among being the main ruler during this time. Hitler like many others of this time blamed the Jews for the country’s defeat back in 1918.
During the Holocaust, it is estimated that as a direct result, about eleven million people were killed (“The Holocaust”). A large number of these deaths occurred in concentration camps, which were camps used to torture and kill political prisoners, such as Communists and Social Democrats. Concentration Camps were horrific as many people were killed and tortured, and many people were killed before they even made it to the camps. Concentration camps were a type of camp that Adolf Hitler built as prisons for his political opponents. There were at least 17 different types of camps that included death camps and police camps for delinquent youths (Fordham).
Survivors of Buchenwald Concentration Camp Visual Analysis World War II ended and several photographs of the Nazi death camps were released and distributed worldwide. These photographs depicted the carnage committed during the Holocaust and instilled a deep hatred towards the Nazis. Some of these images served to justify American intervention in World War II. The power of image is often ignored and goes unnoticed. They possess a certain ability to aggravate extreme changes in emotions and thinking that only visual media can do over standard text.
They were also forced them to work very hard, until they had no more energy. In the next paragraph I will write my conclusion This essay was about the techniques of dehumanization applied by the Nazis. The first paragraph was about the ghettos. The second one, was about how were they put against each other. Finally in the last one, I wrote about the torture that the Jews received.
The concentration camps helped him make that wish come true. A concentration camp is a camp in which people are detained or confined usually under harsh conditions, concentration camps were started in 1933, and the daily life in camps were very long, harsh, and organized. A concentration camp is a type of prison, or place, where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live under harsh conditions. There were many types of camps that existed during the Holocaust, some known as death camps and concentration camps. Concentration camps are known as the camps that Holocaust victims were sent to work.
The most infamous of the concentration camps was Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the largest death camp constructed by the Nazi’s during World War 2, containing 3 camps within it’s fences. The camp was located on the German-Polish border, the starting point for the initial German invasion in World War 2. Auschwitz didn’t not only house Jews, but Poles, Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, Czechs and many other