Adolf Hitler's Extermination Camps During World War II

One main condition during the Holocaust was lice and fleas. This was because so many people were in such a small area, a room that could only fit one hundred, would be packed with almost one thousand people, the lice and fleas were everywhere because of this. Men would get their heads shaved, and woman would get their hair cut really short, or sometimes even shaved all the way off like men, they did this in order to try stop the spreading of lice. In the barracks the lice and fleas were spreaded the worst. The bed would move in the straw beds because they were so infested with the bugs. Also men and womens clothes were infested with the bugs badly because they could not wash their clothing, so the lice and fleas

in Europe had harsher persecutions that led to murder. Over six million people were killed during this time. These deaths define two-thirds of European Jewry, and one-third of all world Jewry.

One of the problems Asian American communities faced during World War 2 is concentrations camps. Since the United States went to war all Japanese, Germans, and Italians were seen as enemies so, they were put in camps because the U.S did not did not trust them. Also it was a way to have control over them having them in camps. Over five thousand Japanese were detained and were intern in camps in Mexico, Montana, South Dakota, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area. There were ten more relocations camps located in California, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Arkansas.

Eleven million people died during the Holocaust of these eleven million people 2.4 million died from medical experiments conducted by German forces. These experiments were conducted mainly for three reasons. The first of which was to help the Germans gain knowledge that would help them better understand things that would have been viewed as threats or weaknesses to their military (Holocaust Museum). For example the Germans knew little of hypothermia and the weather located on the eastern front, so freezing experiments were conducted at Auschwitz concentration camp where most of their medical experiments occurred (Remember ). The second reason the Germans did medical experiments was to further their knowledge on how to pharmaceutically

Those not sent to death camps were sent to something even more cruel: concentration camps. In the early days of the war, these camps were only used to house political prisoners of the war such as communists, previous criminals, prisoners of war, and extending even to tramps and beggars (“Concentration Camps” Gale, 127). In 1936, the concentration camp system extended greatly to include Jehovah’s witnesses, convicted prostitutes, Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals (“Concentration Camps” United States Holocaust Museum, par. 1). After 1936, the camps were built next to or near quarries or brickyards and factories where prisoners were forced to perform heavy labor until they were too weak to continue. (128). The program was known as “Vernichtung durch Arbeit”, or “Annihilation through Work” (par. 4). Upon arrival to the camps, lines were formed in front of SS medical officers who directed each prisoner to the left or the right. If you were directed to the right, then you were to live, but die a more drawn out than those who went left

Just imagine if yourself, friends or family were sent away to a concentration camp. How would that make you feel? I would feel sad and scared for my family or for myself. It’s an awful thing to think about. Concentration camps were meant to starve and work prisoners to their death. In concentration camps, many prisoners were tortured and soon thereafter, died. There were many concentration camps and a lot of horrible things happened. Such as the number of people dying, and poor treatment of prisoners. Adolf Hitler made this all happen.

Inmates resembled skeletons and were so weak they were unable to move. The smell of burning bodies was ever present and piles of corpses were scattered around the camp. However, you could be “saved” from the crematoria to be used as test subjects to cruel experimentation and used as lab rats for any experiment the scientists wanted to conduct. Later in the war, extermination camps were built. These were specialized for the mass murder of Jews using Zyklon B to ensure a painful, long, and torturous death. The bodies would then be thrown into the fire and all clothes, teeth, and shoes would be sent to pursue the German war front. At max efficiency, 20,000 people would be killed in the gas chambers a day. As the red Army approached near to liberate the Jews in concentration and extermination camps, SS officers sent prisoners on a death march across hundreds of miles, where they ran with no food or water, no matter the weather, until they reached the closest camp. SS officers proceeded to blow up the camps to hide the genocide from the

Prisoner of War camps and concentration camps during the second world war were brutal, extreme, and deadly. Many POW soldiers, Jews, Gypsies, and more died within these camps of many causes. Sometimes as I’m learning about World War II, I wonder whether the Japanese prison camps were better, worse, or just as bad as Nazi concentration camps and why did Germans treat Americans better than the Japanese did? I chose this topic, because not many people look into the Japanese war camps as much as they did with the Nazi concentration camps. I thought about what happened in those camps that differed from German concentration camps and which was worse. That’s why I chose this topic to learn about.

World War II was a war that involved the Axis and the Allied powers. The countries in the Axis powers were bound by the Tripartite Pact. The three countries bound together by this pact were obliged to certain responsibilities in their region. The three countries in this pact were Germany, Japan, and Italy. According to www.worldwar2history.info, some members of the allied powers were the U.S.A (later), Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and Canada. According to worldwar2.org.uk, World War II lasted for six long years and a recent estimate says about 72 million people were directly killed by the conflict. Also, countless others were deeply affected by the economic shockwaves that followed. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during World War II.

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific time periods where unthinkable and unimaginable crimes were committed against Jews, Gypsies and other racial groups. No one could have ever imagined the numbers of innocent people Hitler massacred. Until liberation millions of Jews were sent to death and concentration camps, such as Auschwitz. With tons of severe and cruel ways of extermination they were stuck in this horrible place. Because of the horrific living conditions, forced labor, mass murdering, and other inhumane activities, Auschwitz was the most feared, and the largest Nazi Death Camp of World War 2.

World War II,1939-1945, caused lots of destruction to many people and many countries.The war was fought between two groups,the axis power and the allied power.The axis power included Germany,Italy, and Japan while the allied power included Britain,France,Canada,New Zealand,The Soviet Union,China and the United States.There were many different events that could be linked to the start of the war including the Germans invasion of Poland.The Germans invasion of Poland led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi’s and since Britain and France declared war that meant that all of the allied powers would also go to war with them.The casualties in World War II totaled to over 60 million including both innocent civilians and military personnel.

The World was getting taken over by Three countries Hitler with Germany, Mussolini with Italy, and Tojo with Japan known as the axis powers They took The lives of many people but they underestimated Some of the other countries that Fought back. The U.S, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union all went against the axis powers.

Jews,Gypsies(Roma), homosexuals, criminals, and prisoners of war were gathered and then put into cattle cars on trains and were then sent to Auschwitz. Families were brutally and quickly separated from each other, and were then ordered to form two lines. Men, Women, young children, older men and those who looked unfit were put in the left line, then sent to the left, where they were to be killed immediately. The rest who looked strong and healthy, we're sent to the right to work and do hard labor, then eventually die from exhaustion, starvation, torture, and/or hard labor.

Lastly, work and death camps were used by Adolf Hitler and his Nazis to exterminate all the Jews. For example, Auschwitz, which was known as the Camp of Death, was recognized as the most efficient concentration camp by the Nazis. These Nazis had thousand of Jewish people working under forced labor under very heaving living conditions, and this was often pointless and humiliating. “Even before the war began, the Nazis imposed forced labor on Jewish civilians both inside and outside concentration camps” (United States Holocaust Encyclopedia 1). To add, some prisoners were subjected to work to death meaning that they had the potential to survive the final solution. In work and death camps, people worked for countless amounts of hours and many

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