Concentration Camps In Nazi Germany

In the article “Auschwitz-Birkenau” suffering was built into Auschwitz by overcrowding their prisoners, starving them, and using forced labor.  Firstly, the Nazis caused great suffering by overcrowding their prisoners in the barracks of Auschwitz Birkenau.  The Nazis squeezed from 7-9 prisoners on each plank (which is where they slept), and about 500 in each barrack. This caused the prisoners to feel uncomfortable, and lose hope in surviving, which is exactly what the Nazis wanted. In the article it states, “Each barrack held about thirty-six wooden bunk beds, and inmates were squeezed five or six across on the wooden plank. As many as 500 inmates lodged in a single barrack”(17). The Nazis built suffering into Auschwitz by cramming five hundred

Concentration Camps were an imfamous event in WWII. But, not in a good way. Concentration Camps were not only the place where millions of innocent people were brutally murdered. They were so much more. During WWII, there were over 1,200 camps that were run by Nazi Germany. They were placed all over Europe and held many people of different beliefs, races, abilty, age, and religion. Hitler, the “ruler” over the Nazis, sent millions of people to their death to these camps. There were a few different types of camps that held different ways of handling the prisioners.

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.

There used to be places that were known for torture, forced labor, and murder. People were dragged out of their own homes to be brought there. These places were called concentration camps. They were the largest Nazi killing centers and they took the lives of over a million Jews. The camps are an important part of history that we will never forget.

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.

Life inside of the camps was devastating, mainly for the Jews. Inside they tortured the prisoners and worked them to the bone. They were barely fed and conditions were miserable, and if prisoners were proven to be not useful, they were executed in gas chambers. The people who executed were mostly the elderly and young children, because they couldn’t really work. This article got into life for the Jews in the camps along with other prisoners who weren’t Jews.

Now around 1934 there were at least over fifty-five concentration camps, but every camp had a different purpose, one purpose could be could be how they transport them to others camps to do forced labor and other would trap them into a little cave where they made sure there everything was in its right order. You had camps that were alongside the railroad, then you had some that were in the middle of nowhere. The condition were so traumatizing that the Nazis kept telling the Jews to have hope. The Nazis enjoy making them suffers. One of the largest concentration camp was the Auschwitz, it came about on April 27, 1940. It was a death camp. They were giving little food and would get a whipping if they didn’t follow orders. You have people who

When the Jews arrived at the camp all abled men were ordered to step to the left and women and children were ordered to step to right. After all the prisoners were separated, they shaved the hair from each person and took away all their clothes. Then they were ordered to lineup and they tattooed them with pen and ink. If anyone were to cried they were beaten. They were no longer a person they were a number. Prisoners who were unfit for labor were sent straight to the gas chamber, which was disguised as a shower to trick the victims. All the prisoners were used for forced labor and spent more than 10 hours each day working. The rest of the time was time was taken up by roll-call assemblies, lines for food or for washroom to remove all the dirt and pests from their

While there were many death camps that opened during the Jewish Holocaust, none of them compare to the opening of Birkenau in 1941. Birkenau opened and before it was liberated “the camp killed about 1.3 million people” (“Auschwitz”). Birkenau was a factory of death. This place was a monstrosity for all of the prisoners. They slept in a bunk with two or three other people and a blanket per person. Once the prisoners were there, they learned that life would not be easy. Waking up at six o’clock and working 12-14 hour days with minimal food. “The soup was unappetizing, and newly arrived prisoners were often unable to eat it, Supper consisted of about 300 grams of black bread, served with about 25 grams of sausage, or margarine, or a tablespoon

Auschwitz was one of the most infamous and largest concentration camp known during World War II. It was located in the southwestern part of Poland commanded by Rudolf Höss. Auschwitz was first opened on June 14, 1940, much later than most of the other camps. It was in Auschwitz that the lives of so many were taken by methods of the gas chamber, crematoriums, and even from starvation and disease. These methods took "several hundreds and sometimes more than a thousand" lives a day. The majority of the lives killed were those of Jews although Gypsies, Yugoslavs, Poles, and many others of different ethnic backgrounds as well. The things most known about Auschwitz are the process people went through when entering the camp and

Auschwitz- Birkenau was the most horrific concentration camps in World War II, it was where the largest number of European Jews were killed in WWII during the Holocaust. Auschwitz was first constructed for Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site to carry out, the Final Solution.

Camps now a days are fun for children when they are bored during the summer they can stay there for weeks make friends and learn all sorts of new stuff while their parents don’t have to deal with them for a while and are sure they are safe and having fun. The camps that are going to be learned about in this reading are the exact opposite, these camps only terrorize, safety is never an option, death is the only answer, and parents would never want their kids to go to through all of this torture and fear. Auschwitz known as the term for the largest camps during the Holocaust was a complex of camps from concentration, forced-labor to death camps. There were three main areas from the many camps including: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Birkenau),

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

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

The background of the camp is interesting. The sign above the main entrance doesn’t really make sense. It reads, “ARBEIT MACHT FREI,” which meant, “WORK MAKES ONE FREE.” If you can tell it doesn’t make sense because the work that they did in that camp didn’t free anyone. It actually did the opposite. They worked all the prisoners to death or very close. The location of Auschwitz is located near Cracow, Poland. It