Creative Writing: Bedlam In Berlin

Being in the camps was horrible. They smelt like dead flesh and were as cold as Antarctic. Ever since I was a kid, my mum said I had a big heart and the camps had proved that. Even though I was on the Germans side, I didn’t support anything they were doing; it was disgusting, to say the least. The Germans would shoot the Jew’s as if they were wild animals just running around waiting to be shot. Their faces so stiff, that they no longer seemed human themselves. Days spent hearing cries of despair and sadness, all caused by one guy who believed that, this is what they had deserved. A human life being put in the hand of another. I hated it, and the worst part was being able to do nothing but watch on and see hundreds, thousands lose their precious lives. It was silly and stupid, an unimaginable experience that doesn’t even sound real. How someone could be that evil is something that I could never comprehend.

The conditions that the Jews and other were put through were super horrible. They were forced into boxcars that didn’t have anything in them and they wondered where they were and where they were going. They stood in the boxcars for days with no food or water to keep them alive. (Joseph)(Source 3) Along their way to the concentration camps they were exposed to harsh weather. In the summer it was scorching hot and in the winter it was freezing cold. Since they were shoved amongst each other they suffered from suffocation. Along their journey many young and old died along the way (“The Holocaust”)(Source 2). Inside the boxcars there was no windows or anyway to breath. It was also very unsanitary because of the abundance of people in them and they didn’t have any water to at least wash themselves with. All they could do was stand there in the dark and wait (Joseph) (Source

She had discovered the power of words and it felt so exhilarating! She wrote and explored her new found creative love with passion until the door flew open and Miss Muller and Miss Margot rushed in beaming, "We're heard that the war will soon be over and everyone will be freed." Willy jumped up into the air and twirled and then ran over laughing and hugged the ladies. Joseph who was still feeling rather ill sat and clapped his hands and coughed twice. And Anna smiled happily dropped her pen and paper and declared, "I can't believe that we had survived in your basement for so long. It will be such a pleasure to feel the sunshine on my shoulders again." then she stood up and began to twirl around, and around. Midway through her third twirl a violently tremor tossed her to the floor. Then there was another shake and a loud crash as a squad of German soldiers kicked in the front door. Once the soldiers were in they marched around their blacks boots making a click clock sound on the wood floors as they searching. Everyone held their breath and listened as the soldiers opened squeaky doors and then slamming them shut, door after door until finally they entered into the tiny room where the group five was huddled together. Four were on their feet and other remained seated. The tall SS officer who was in charge smiled at the them and mocked, "We're making merriment yes?" Then he pointed to them squinting his small devious blue eyes and demanded, "What's your names?" Everyone gave their name and he frowned at Joseph and through clenched teeth snickered, "You let's go." Miss Margot ran over and stood in front of Joseph and cried, "No, not him, he has hasn't done anything!" One of the soldiers yelled, "Be quiet and get out the way old lady their only being taken a labor camp. Then he knocked her to the floor with the butt of his gun. Willy gasped for air and Anna dashed over to help her up. The officer smirked with

Back in the main level of the factory, Wolf and Fox find Hawk lying on the ground, pale and unresponsive, his bulletproof vest next to him and the edges of a red stain showing around a wad of gauze. A soldier that Fox assumes is N-Unit's medic kneels next to him, along with Snake and Coyote. The three medics are talking frantically among themselves. The rest of N-Unit hovers nervously nearby; the rest of H-Unit is nowhere to be seen. Dust particles dance through the beams of sunlight from the holes where windows used to be, giving the whole scene a strangely dreamy air.

The conditions in the camps were poor and overcrowded. They lived in barracks that were made out of tar papers without plumbing,and a kitchen. After the relocation they said coal was hard to come by, the Japanese slept on as many blankets as they could. Food was rationed out as 48 cents per person. One Japanese stated “ It was often too hot in the summer and too cold in winter making life very difficult and uncomfortable. infoplease.com

Jews had to share room, bunks, and restrooms with everyone else. Jews were treated brutally and were tortured. They were hardly ever fed and if they were it would be a small amount. Diseases were also spread around quickly. Many of these camps didn’t even have furniture for the Jews. When they did, they would have to share bunks. Many people shared rooms and bunks. Multiple people would sleep on bunks. They were never washed or cleaned. Nazi soldiers would also trick the Jews into thinking they would get to shower. They would give them procedures such “Take off all your clothes.” The Jews actually didn’t know they were walking into gas chambers and that they will die in shortly as to 5 minutes. Everyone were put into gas chambers like men, elderly, women, children, and

How they were treated. None of them were treated well at all. All barely were fed, and many were tortured. When they were walking to their work zone, NAZI soldiers would make the dogs kill them just for fun. Another thing is they would work them until death, or killed. When they arrived, they had two lines they would go into. If they thought you could work, they would put you in a line. If they thought you wouldn’t help at all or if you were a kid, they would put you in a different line. The line with the kids and people that couldn’t work well would be sent into rooms with gas that would kill them, then they would be burned. They treated everyone so terribly.

He saddened every time he thought of his mother and couldn’t bear the consequences of leaving her behind. Luckily, Friederick was always there for him, comforting him along the way.

I write to you today from a hospital bed in France. I know that may sound bad, but truly I am one of the lucky ones. I have lost so many friends in this past battle. I am sure you have probably heard news of this back home in England already. The first day of the battle on the Somme was a dark day indeed. I have heard it word here that it could have been one of the bloodiest battles to date. I do not even know how to begin describing the war, but I have to describe it to someone. I would never want to tell my parents of these horrors I am facing; it would be far too much for them to bear. You are my closest friend back home, and I know if it were not for your health issues, you would be here fighting too, so I feel I can tell you about all this. I know I volunteered for this, but I never in a million years could have predicted what war would truly be like. Looking back on it though, we are truly lucky that Britain is a country that relies on volunteer

Both local newspapers began to signal, albeit discretely, that war could be approaching its end. Reports spoke in guarded terms about German difficulties and in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ columns, there were encouraging words, leaving readers in no doubt that a resolution was close. Talk in shops and at church services built on the speculation. When news of the imminent German surrender reached soldiers in the front line it was greeted with silence. ‘We did not cheer,’ one soldier recalled. ‘We just stood, stunned and bewildered.’ He continued: ‘On the stroke of 11a.m. the CO raised his hand and told us that the war was over. Then we cheered, with our tin hats on and our rifles held aloft. For old hands like me, it was funny realising that the day we had waited so long for had come at

It was February 23, 1939 Austria a young adult was taken away from his home and his casual day to day life. The second world war. Was taking place. We were swarmed into the streets and being taken out. People in confusion as to why these German soldiers are constantly yelling at us

The Jews had to live in an area of housing known as a Ghetto. This is were the government took a group of Jews and put them into a dirty housing community. Disease outbreaks were quite frequent and deadly. Many people not only died from being sent away, but just from the diseases in the Ghettos. According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, the ghettos were extremely dirty. Staying warm was very difficult during the freezing winter. There was a major food shortage that resulted in famine. Lots of Jews died of starvation. They had poor sanitation, with extreme over crowding causing people to have to share rooms and beds. Many places had ghettos that were had a barbed wire, brick and stone walls as their boundaries. Guards were placed at openings and gates of the ghettos.(Ghettos) The smallest ghetto held around 3,000 people. The largest ghetto, located in Warsaw, held around 400,000 people. Many of the people in the ghettos came from the local area or nearby. Around 1941, Jews were being deported from Germany to Poland to even further east. Jews were not allowed to leave the ghetto. If they did they would be killed on site. Gas vans were used in

The roofing in the housing were terrible, they leaked and made many prisoners ill. They starved so many prisoners, making them very weak, resulting in the perish of many. As you entered the camp, you could smell something burning, that something was the bodies of the deceased. They disposed of the bodies improperly and even made other prisoners sack up the bodies as labor. Imagine sacking millions of bodies for more than eleven hours, wishing that your life could be the way it used to be. Families were separated and never be to reunited once more. Fearing every day that they have not left this earth, and hoping to one day see them again. I cannot even imagine parting ways with my loved ones. I could not live with myself thinking such thoughts. So many prisoners were innocently killed because they were believed to be monsters, not realizing the real monsters where the ones who supported such hooligan ideas. Adolf Hitler is responsible for all the deaths caused in The Holocaust and I sincerely hope he regretted what he did to all his

The gas chambers had a really bad smell and the gas was still on the wall of the chambers. The living environments were horrible the beds were stacked up on top of each other there was no pillow or blanket and were lucky if they got a mattress. They were barely ever fed there a lot of the people died from starvation. There was also not a lot of water for them to drink. The food that they got usually was bread or a really bad stew and it was a really little if you got

This was also where punishments were handed out. Many people were flogged or executed, or sentenced to the gas chambers. Others were made to stand in a dark cell with no food or water until they died. (Auschwitz Museum and Memorial)