The Holocaust was one of the worst events to ever happen to mankind. It was started by the Fuhrer of Germany, Adolf Hitler, who thought that the Aryan race was superior to every other race. He had a massive hatred for the Jewish race and decided to try and exterminate every living Jewish person. He killed around two-thirds of all the European Jews (Byers 10). World War II was going on at the same time as the Holocaust.
To prevent enemy soldiers from returning to their troops, the Japanese held prisoners of war in horrible camps throughout Japan, forced them to work in horrendous conditions, and treated them inhumanely. The living conditions the prisoners had to endure on the way to the camps was truly awful. When transported, the men were crammed into rusty old freighters and spent several nights in these “hell ships” (“The POW Camps”). The men on the ships had no room to move, were ill with dysentery and had very little food. Sometimes they were transported from one “hell ship” to another on their journeys to work camps.
Tadmor military prison in Syria still use the medieval methods of torture on the guilty and innocent, being dragged by a rope till dead or beaten to death by pipes. But the massacre of June 27 1980 killing 500 prisoners for no reason by the guards and is the worst known massacre to happen. The worst prison in the world is the ADX Florence Supermax prison in Colorado, the use of slow and inhumane torture. Inmates only let out for 9 hours a week and rarely get to interact with other inmates with
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.
The death camps were mentally inhumane on the prisoners; especially during the first few days because most inmates had some to all of their family taken away and killed. The camps tore families apart and people watched as their loved ones left to be killed. Elie Wiesel talks about the last time he saw his mother and sister and how when he left the train he and the others were forced into groups with, “‘Men to the left! Women to the right’ Eight words spoken quietly in differently, without emotion. Eight simple short words, yet that was the moment when I left my mother… I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (Wiesel 29).
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.
Auschwitz The Auschwitz camp was located in a province of present-day Poland. It consisted of several satellite camps. In each of these camps the prisoners were treated as slaves to work in the German Nazi Industrial factories. They worked in appalling conditions, for example, without clothes, without proper equipment, poorly fed and without medical care. Many of them worked to death or died of starvation.
The Holocaust (from the Greek holókaustos meaning “burnt whole”) was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, lasting from 1939-1945. It was a systematic killing programme overseen by the ruling German Nazi party throughout the lands they occupied. Of the nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds died. The question so often asked is: what caused this atrocity? Discrimination against Jews In the year 70 AD the Romans banished the original Jews from their homeland, Israel.
In what ways did the Nazis treatment of Jews change between 1938 and 1945? The Jews were violated throughout the Second World War and the intensity of the violence elevated as the war progressed. In 1938 Kristallnacht took place where German citizens including the SS and the Hitler youth boycotted Jewish shops and businesses due to an assassination of a German politician by a French student . This was persecution of the Jews as many of them were removed from everyday life either by being sent to a concentration camp , 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps on that night, or by having property and businesses vandalised and destroyed which left them with nothing. Also more persecution happened the next day as Jewish communities were asked to pay $1 million marks in reparations to what took place on that night .
The trip took about 4 days, 4 days in which they were not given any food or water, and were not permitted to leave the train for any reason on its many stops. When they arrived at Auschwitz, they were subjected to the first of several selections into groups. The German SS soldiers divided them into two groups, the ones who could work and the ones who couldn’t- such as women, children, and older men. Husbands and wives were split from each other with the promise they would be together again later, a lie the Germans used to manipulate the prisoners into their ultimate death. 135 of the people on Levi’s train went into Auschwitz and the rest straight to the gas chamber.