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Concentration Camp Struggles

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Struggle of Concentration Camps
Do you know how life in the concentration camps were? Do you know how many people died each year because of these camps? Life in these camps were tough, either you can work or you die, harsh right. Wondering the first year they evacuated the Jews, how scared people must have been and how they thought everything would be okay in the “good” hands of their government. You wonder who would put people, human beings just like you, live, breath, eat, exactly like you, through so much misery and for what, get what out killing innocent humans?
People might think that Hitler was head of all of this but he actually wasn’t. Prussian minister Herman Göring was the creator of the concentration camps. He was the first person to come up with an idea. The camps at the beginning weren’t just for jews.Some of the early prisoners in these camps were: german communist, socialist, social democrats, Roma(gypsies), Jehovah's witnesses, homosexuals, and the “asocial” or people with socially deviant behavior. Göring also created the Gestapo(secret state police) which was to take place of the Prussian secret police. There was group called the SA also known as the Stormtroopers or Brownshirts which was a group of thugs and petty criminals to protect party …show more content…

About 10 miles northwest of Munich in southern Germany, it was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the northeastern part of Dachau. The Nazis and its allies established more than 40,000 camps and other types of sites between 1933-1945. In 1939, the Nazis opened forced labor camps. These “camps” were camps where people were put into prisons for being born into a certain families, such as Jewish, Austrian, ect. Like I have said before if you couldn’t work you were sentenced to death. Hitler had claimed at the beginning that the concentration camps were for the people who went against his

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