There are a plethora of problems with the system that the city refuses to ix. One of the main problems with the subway is the dirt and grime that are overrunning the carts. Everywhere you look there are piles of garbage lying around on the platforms. There is an inadequate amount of trash cans on the platforms. Due to this problem, people resort to throwing their used napkins, cans, and wrappers on the floor.
All of these things led to a high mortality rate. The worst place to be though was Siberia, where summer is nothing but a fairy tale and the ground is covered in snow at all times. Prisoners were sent to camps in large groups, sometimes numbering in the thousands. Herded into cattle cars in the freezing cold, many did not know where they were being sent. In a way it was like the Holocaust, only not as cruel.
As the Allies fought their way across Europe, they discovered the concentration and death camps. The conditions in the camps had always been terrible. However, by late 1944 and early 1945 the whole camp system was collapsing. The prisoners in the East were subjected to the death marches at the height of winter. The transportation to camps in Germany and Austria led to terrible overcrowding, resulting in many thousands of deaths.
Children were to go to school. Sometimes in defiance, the Jews would remain close together on the train, and refuse to move. This act of defiance was immediately met with an open fire on them by the German guards. They would be coaxed out of the train saying that work awaited them, and when they stepped out of the train, the guards opened fire on them. This left very few Jews in a condition to enter the camp.
Concentration camps were multifaceted and complex camps that had no regard for human life and played an important role during the Holocaust. Concentration camps ignored the rights of those subject to incarceration, and often were starved, tortured, overworked and murdered. Living conditions were poor, unsanitary and harsh. People were given little to no food and were forced to work. The camps were described as “a dehumanizing existence that involved a struggle for survival against a system designed to annihilate them.” Prisoners were forced to exist in conditions described as “dehumanizing” believing that the camps took away their human rights.
Do you understand?” Such cruelty was common in the camps however; it was often the only means of surviving amidst the SS and other Nazis. The last encounter that Eliezer has with this kind of brutality is on the train to Buchenwald. A fight breaks out on the train among the prisoners, as onlookers and German citizens find amusement at throwing pieces of bread onto the train for the Jews to fight over. Eliezer sees an older man crawl out of the fighting, clutching a piece of bread. As he makes his way, crawling, to the rear of the train, his son jumps on top of him, bludgeoning his father to death in order to take the bread.
Both of them have no good reason for sentencing people to death but more just want it to happen because they have the power to do it as Giles Corey points out in “The Crucible”. “Say nothin' more, John. He's only playin' you! He means to hang us all! (Miller 91) It is clear that Danforth has an absolutely senseless reason for killing people because he chooses to believe that witchcraft is real like Hitler chooses to believe that Germans are a superior race and Jews cause all of the worlds problems.
Appalled is one word that can describe my initial reaction towards the cruelty presented in the autobiography Night by Eliezer Wiesel, and the films, “Jakob the Liar” and “The Last Days”. Though I had some previous knowledge about the Holocaust, my eyes were pried open to the horrific and despicable events that human beings did to other human beings. I honestly ask, ‘How could people do that to others?’ People in concentration camps had to aide in the murder of others, often friends or family; people were not given food or water; and people were treated like ‘lab rats’ and were used for sick experiments. Through the two films and the novel, I was educated about the cruelty that some people possess, and how some humans can still find the strength
Soon after that the Nazis tell everybody they have to leave. The Nazis put everybody on a train, the train was packed. There was no bathroom, nothing to eat or drink and there was nowhere to sit. After a few days on the train they arrive at the concentration camps. As soon as they arrive at the concentration camps they are stripped and put into old dusty rags and their heads are shaven and then the get tattooed numbers and a letter on their forearm.
Running Head: Nazi Science Nazi Science: Good or Bad Science? Sonya Blanton Argosy University English 102 Composition 2 Professor Jaclyn King October 8, 2014 Nazi Science 2 Nazi Science during the Holocaust came about mainly by Germans murdering approximately six million Jews for experimental reasons. The Nazi doctors performed many experiments on patients also known as victims on the basis of ethnicity, disability, or if they were located in a prison or concentration camp, and these experiments were initially developed because they wanted to try and improve the survival of people. Not all the Nazi doctors during that time had bad intent and deserve to be labeled as “killers”. Most will argue that Nazi Science has no medical bearings