Auschwitz In Germany

“Seventy-five years ago, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, and a 12-year reign of terror across Europe began. Could History repeat itself?” (Smith, 15). In the article, Hitler Comes to Power, by Patricia Smith, European Jews were punished because they were blamed for most of Germany's problems. After Germany lost World War 1, the citizens of Germany were desperate for help. So, they turned to Hitler hoping he could help improve their lives. Hitler coming to power was one of Europe's most horrible accidents of all time. His punishments for the Jews were unright, unnecessary, and prejudice. Hitler's actions affected the Jews and scared them for life... How would you react to a leader like Hitler? If your freedom was taken, what would you do?

During the Holocaust, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau were two of the biggest death camps in all of Poland. Jews from all over Europe were sent to these two camps. In this article are sections about before Auschwitz became the camp, treatment, gas chambers, and the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Bergen-Belsen had tens of thousands of prisoners in it and had 60,000 prisoners in a very critical condition. Bergen-Belsen was full of unsanitary conditions, the prisoners had lack of food, shelter, and they died because of overcrowded areas. The Nazis starved the prisoners so much that some couldn’t even move. “Moving vaguely on rickety skeleton legs were too ill to eat.”(ushmm.org) Most of the survivors were too hungry to even move to get food. The Nazis wanted prisoners to suffer, so they put them to work everyday, giving them one meal to eat.

Auschwitz was also the first to introduce “Gas Vans.” These were used to put Jews in them and then put gas through the tail pipe (“The Seven”).

Imagine being pried away from your family. Not only that, but being left at the concentration camps, knowing that you are about to face the dreaded word “death”. Concentration camps broke people’s hearts and changed them forever. They had to encounter many terrifying and petrifying medical experiments. Alongside that, the so called “concentration camps” were basically almost becoming, or were, actual death camps. The things that they had to endure were heartbreaking and agonizing. They were starved from the moment that they got there until the end. If they were lucky, their concentration camp would’ve been liberated by the Allies. Most were not so lucky. During the Holocaust, many different concentration camps were built that were to change the lives of people forever.

Jews were moved into concentration camps between 1930 and 1940 depending on when the camps opened and most were kept until death (Byers 26). The 1940 death camps were located mainly in Poland (“Concentration” par. 4). In these concentration camps men and women were worked too hard, beat, and killed by Nazis (Byers 23). Concentration camps were places used for torture and murder of men, women, and children (Byers 13). The Dachau concentration camp was located in the city of Dachau and was not used for criminals but for placing people in “protective custody” (Byers 23). The beds were made of wooden planks, had no light or heat, had small rations of food, and beat with clubs and wet towels (Byers 23). Anne Byers, author of The Holocaust Camps, stated, “Conditions were harsh and treatment was brutal” (Byers 23).

When I got to the first concentration camp. They told us to take off our clothes and put on other clothes that looked much worse. Then they would tell us to stick out our left arm so they could tattoo our numbers on. During the Holocaust, concentration camp prisoners received tattoos only at one ... non-Jewish persons of virtually all European nationalities.

The Dachau concentration camp was established March 22 1933,at an old WWI gunpowder factory.Dachau was one of the first camps to use SS soldiers.At first,Dachau was intended to befor only men.During the first year of Dachau,it was able to hold 4,800 prisoners.After being liberated,Dachau had 31,951 certified deaths.The total of prisoners to arrive at Dachau is 206,206.It was not a death camp for th genocide of the Jews,although there was Jewish prisoners there.

The Jews lacked proper amounts of food and were constantly being watched by guards. “A typical concentration camp consisted of barracks that were secured from escape by barbed wire, watchtowers and guards” (“Holocaust | Concentration Camps” np). Oppression is presented in this fact because the Nazis did not want the Jews to escape or have any sustainable living space, while other Germans could live how they pleased. “In the forced labour camps, for instance, the inmates usually worked 12 hours a day with hard physical work, clothed in rags, eating too little and always living under the risk of corporal punishment” (“Holocaust | Concentration Camps” np). This fact also shows how the Jews were abused in the concentration camps, because they were forced to work long hours with no pay and the thought of being severely punished was constantly looming over their heads.

I hear the familiar voice of our officer yelling at us (Châtel). That means another day; another long, painful and exhausting day. Today is different though. Everyone has an odd sense of urgency. I walk over to my mom.

“In spite of all the terrible things that happened to me, I did not allow Hitler to make me feel less than human.” (Holocaust). Hitler made people feel like they were nothing, he would take their lives away because he didn’t like them. It is important to know that what Hitler did to the Jews is not right. Auschwitz is still standing today as a place people can visit. Many people feel offended by this. Auschwitz is still affecting people today on how they feel and act.

Auschwitz- the most populated and popular concentration camp within the Holocaust. Soviet troops freed the people incarcerated within the camp. That day, over 7,000 prisoner were released, mostly ill and dying because of the long term effects of the camps. Between 1940 and 1945, over 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz and over 1.1 million were murdered.

Auschwitz was one of the formal military base. Auschwitz was one of the largest military base. All of the Concentration camps had held Jews, prisoners, and children also Nazi’s enemies. The amount estimated to be in Auschwitz was about 1.1 million people. About 50% of the people of 1.1 million were children.

Hitler first established concentration camps when he came into power in 1933. He started with one concentration camp, which then grew into more than 100 camps. There were two different types of camps; concentration camps, for slave labour and death camps, for systematic extermination of “undesirables” including Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally retarded and others classed as undesirables. Concentration camps were solely made to kill as many Jews as possible. When first approaching the concentration camps in cattle trucks, Jews were stripped of their possessions and forced to have communal showers. They were herded naked into large rooms with fixed showerheads. The prisoners were led into showers on the belief they were being sterilized

The word concentration camp refers to camp where people are confined or detained. Always under harsh conditions. Without regard to legal norms of arrest or imprisonment. From 1933 to 1945 concentration camps were an integral feature of the regime. Only in Nazi Germany of course.