Bloemfontein Concentration Camp

In the early 1930s, the residents of the picturesque city of Dachau, Germany, were completely unaware of the horrific events about to unfold that would overshadow their city still today. The citizens of Dachau were oblivious that their city was going to become the origin of concentration camps and of the Holocaust, the mass murder committed by the Nazi s in World War II. Dachau Concentration Camp, which would soon be placed on the edge of their community, would serve as a model for all Nazi extermination camps. This perfect prototype of a Nazi killing machine has come to represent the start of the horror-filled Holocaust and the Nazi's determination to achieve a perfect society during World War II.

Des Pres, Terrence. The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

After hour upon hours of a train ride trapped in a dark, confined room, packed with people, only being to eat tiny rations and no toilet, what awaited the Jews was an even worse fate. Death Camps. Chelmno , Belzec,

were fed. When the criminals were done consuming what little they had they would be sent

85 years ago, over a 12 year period, nearly six million Jews were killed in a genocide called The Holocaust. The Holocaust was led by the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler was their leader. The mass murders took place at concentration camps throughout Europe. The majority of concentration camps resided in Poland and Germany. Many people believe there were only a few concentration camps. “However, researchers found that the Nazis had actually established 20,000 camps between 1933 and 1945” (“How Many Camps,” n.d.). In this paper I will be discussing the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

During World War II the atrocities committed by the Nazis were so violent, and so reprehensible that Germany is still trying to make amends for them to this very day. I decided to do my final paper on just one specific group of people terrorized by the Nazis in their concentration camps, American GI’s. These GI’s were sent to a camp known as Buchenwald. The off shoot of Buchenwald was known as Berga. Berga is a town in the Grietz district in Thuringia, Germany. Although, not initially used as a concentration camp, Berga would become one of Hitler’s most secretive and most infamous concentration camps during the war.

Did you know that World War ll was known as one of the most crucial wars of human times. Hitler overpowered Germany trying to make all of the Jews try to kill them all. His ways of thinking they would no longer be here was to torture them, one way of doing so was by putting them in concentration camp and making them starve and work to hard. He and his "Nazi" armies held these, camps one of the biggest was called "Ravensbruck." Ravensbruck was an all women's camp.

A bomb had hit Dachau on April 9,1945 which knocked out all the running water and electricity.Water had to be brought to the prisoners at Dachau through trucks.There wasn't any running water at Dachau to flush toilets or anything like that.However the prisoners did not starve because there were 5 trucks filled with food.There was a food shortage at the town of Dachau to

There were more than 40,000 concentration camps during the Holocaust. One of the worst and most destructive camp was Auschwitz, which was located in southern Poland (“Gilbert” 1). It contained three camps that were all known as Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a death camp and a concentration camp that claimed the lives of thousands. Survivors say that when the doors first open on the boxcar at Auschwitz there was an orchestra playing, this was to trick the prisoners into thinking there were somewhere better (“The Death Camps” 21). Physician Gisella Perl described the overall picture of Auschwitz she received when she first arrived as “Like big, black clouds, the smoke of the crematory hung over the camp. Sharp red tongues of flame licked the sky,

I chose the concentration camp Treblinka, it was established in November of 1941. With the support of the SS and Police Leader for District Warsaw in “Generalgouvernement”, SS and police authorities established a forced-labor camp for Jews (Treblinka). Later on it became Treblinka I. In addition to it being a labor camp, it also served as a “Labor Education Camp” for non-Jewish Poles, who the Germans believed to have violated labor discipline. Jewish and Polish prisoners were put into separate compounds of the camp, and deployed at forced labor. The killing center known as Treblinka II was completed in July of 1942, about a mile from the Treblinka I, and a rail spur was added that led from Treblinka I to Treblinka II. The Treblinka camp

Eventually Jews and other ‘undesirables’ were sent to death camps, while others went to forced labour camps and used as slaves to produce materials for weapons in war, and a range of goods, such as shoes, clothes and good. These death camps

The British empire fought the forces of 2 “Boer Republics” from 1899-1902 in South Africa. The Boers lost the war. 22,000 soldiers of the British Empire died, and hundreds of of thousands served. Thousands weren’t from the British Isles. Africans served in various capacities. The war made a lot of patterns of violence that came to mark 29th century warfare, especially violence towards civilians. The boer was split up into three periods. The first period was unprepared and weak for the British in South Africa. In one week, December 10-15 1899, The Boers defeated the British. The second period was Bloemfontein, the capital city of South Africa, occupied by the british in February 1900. Lord Kitchener, who was a colonial administrator and Frederick

Professor Hull`s work thus provides picture of a toolkit of practical approaches to circumvent the formalist tendencies of discipline such as international law. It goes beyond international legalese towards a more humanistic understanding of events. In doing so she also challenges the disciplinary boundaries of the history discipline in order to frame her argument in a way that captures the nuance of the Namibian genocide. Equally, she does not move completely abandon her discipline. She utilises aspects of her discipline which she believes allows for a greater empathy and a holistic perspective. This is achieved through use of a wide range of primary materials, including the diaries of Prussian foot

One of many forms of oppression the British practiced during the Second Anglo-Boer War was the use of concentration camps. Both blacks and whites were placed in the camps, and were required to perform unpaid labor. However, the black and white camps were segregated, and the treatment of the inmates in the black concentration camps was vastly different from the white camps. Less rations were given, and less maintenance was performed on the camps, leading to starvation and poor living conditions. Even after the war, when the white concentration camps had been transferred to civilian control, the black concentration camps still remained under military command (Pretorius). Though many Boers and British believed the war to be a “white man’s war”, blacks continued to be segregated and oppressed in order to profit off of their labor and gain advantage in battle. Many blacks fought on the side of the British, believing they would receive education and more economic opportunities with a victory by England (“Role”). Regardless of what side the natives took, the eventual outcomes of the war still prevented them from reaching true equality with the soldiers they fought with at the turn of the twentieth century. Subtle rules and regulations were implemented as a treaty between the English and Boers prevented blacks from ever escaping the European-induced living conditions. The stipulation in the Treaty of Vereeniging that schools continue to teach in Dutch, and conduct court in the

"I polished SS boots as dying people screamed" (Blatt, Thomas) Sobibor was one of the concentration camps that was demolished and burnt down to cover it up so no one knew about it and people wouldn’t believe the survivors. Sobibor was one of the most secreted concentration camp. From the time people began arriving there, life was very hard, which lead to an uprising of the prisoners.