Concentration Camps During World War II

Have you ever heard of the nasty, disgusting, and horrible conditions that jews had to suffer with in concentration camps during the Holocaust? Lice and fleas are a big part of conditions in concentration camps, another horrible condition in the camps are diseases and sanitation, lastly another awful condition in concentration camps is mass murder and starvation. Many people died in concentration camps during the Holocaust because of the environment the jews had to live in and deal with, and many families were split and torn apart because loved ones of theirs had died because of the horrible conditions in the camps.

2. On page 12, the narration changes. Why might it be necessary for someone else to begin telling Janie’s story now?

During the Nazi Holocaust, multiple working and death camps were created to hold the captured Jews. While the Jews lived in this camp, they were tortured, mistreated, worked to death and eventually were put to death by either execution by firearm or were put into a death camp which exterminated the Jews using poison gas. The Nazi Party had developed many death camps in the central european area including the 6 death camps of Poland; Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Majdanek.

Many citizens of the United States immediately after the Civil War knew very little of the atrocities of that occurred in the prisoner of war camps. News that their family member was in a prisoner of war camp was usually dreaded by the family of the captured soldiers. While being dead was much worse the families never truly knew what was going on inside the camps. For the Confederacy, many feared Rock Island, but there was a just as deadly camp just north of Rock Island in Chicago. Once the war had ended the atrocities of what occurred inside the prisoner of war camps became apparent. Suddenly multiple fingers were pointed at what was the culprit for such deplorable conditions. The pictures, descriptions, and accounts of what happened inside the prisoner of war camps became a part of not only history but the media as well. Multiple books were written about the prisoner of war camps, several works of fiction reference the prisoner of war camps. Andersonville is almost unanimously regarded as the worst camp for a Union soldier to get sent to. Rock Island seems to be the place that many agree as the worst camp that a Confederate soldier could get sent to. Rock Island is even mentioned in several works of fiction, including Gone With The Wind. In Gone With The Wind the main character Scarlett O’Hara’s sister in law, Melanie Wilkes received a letter telling her that her husband Ashley Wilkes had been captured and taken to a horrible place called Rock Island. However, while Rock

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.

Look at some of the pictures on page 5 of your packet? Could these people be your family, friends, neighbors, etc.?

In early 1930’s one of the darkest times in history, a worldwide depression had hit Germany. Adolf Hitler conducted a slave raid throughout the Soviet Union during World War II.

One of the main types of concentration camps found during the Holocaust were death camps. The overall purpose of this camp was to kill people upon arrival. Usually the

As the war progressed, a need for soldiers presented itself to Germany, and Hitler turned to his youngest, and most enthusiastic, devoted followers. Due to air raids of its cities, Germany ordered her youth shipped to Hitler Youth camps in the countryside. Promises that the camps would continue education helped set parents at ease as their the government took their children away. Adversely the Nazis did not educate the children, but rigorously trained them in combat, treating them like soldiers at boot camp. Away from any source of respite, Nazi propaganda was constantly shoved down their throats through constant songs and slogans. Soon Allies encountering younger and younger soldiers, flinging themselves into battle with ferocity unseen by

Nazi Concentration Camps were places that treated Jews horribly. They treated them like slaves. The Nazis had a lot of different methods for killing the Jews. Sometimes they would wait for them to die of age or sickness, and right before they died they would basically make them bury their own grave. They would also pick out ones who were healthy to go do some work. The ones who didn’t seem to healthy and not strong enough to work were told they were going to take a shower to clean themselves up. They were actually going to get killed. Right when they would walk in the room that they thought was a shower, they would walk in and get gassed.

The camps included Auschwitz and Dachau which were places where experiments and death took place. Auschwitz was the place that mass murder became a daily routine after an experimental gassing was conducted in September of 1941 where 850 malnourished and ill prisoners entered gas chambers and never escaped the anguish they felt as they took their last breaths. (Bulow, 2009)

Horrifying, murder, screams, terror are the definition of concentration camps. Concentration camps are what the nazis used in WW2. Hitler was the mastermind behind all of this, an evil mastermind.

It is truly important to remember what had occurred in labor camps from 1933 to 1939. In Nazi Germany, concentration camps were where people were sent to work. Jews and other groups of people such as gypsies were sent to these camps. If someone was unable to work, they would be killed. The camps in Nazi Germany were cruel, and inhumane because people who were unable to work were killed, many caught deadly diseases, people were marked with wrong symbol, got experimented on, and people were sent to terrible housing.

Concentration camps were used as an instrument of war by many countries who are fighting while in conflicts with other countries(“Concentration camps”). The camps were exceptionally efficient to imprison, work, and kill people against their will. Whenever Hitler and the Nazis got hold of the idea of concentration camps, more than eleven million people were murdered in a span of twelve years.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is committed to conserving and protecting the naturally and culturally significant sites of the world. A world heritage site is a place that is culturally or environmentally significant to the world. The World Heritage Convention, adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in 1972, puts together both the preservation of nature and the preservation of sites that are culturally significant to society. The idea for this convention came after UNESCO was involved in rescuing the Abu Simbel Temple in Egypt. The building of the Aswan High Dam threatened to flood the valley and destroy the ancient temple. UNESCO launched an international campaign to save the temple and the temple was eventually dismantled, moved, and reassembled in a location safe from flooding. Fifty countries donated to the campaign, raising nearly half of the cost of the operation. The convention was adopted a few years later so that the states parties could join together to protect the world’s natural and cultural heritage. The convention also provides access to the World Heritage Fund to help fund the states’ efforts in identifying and preserving sites.