Dachau: Inhumane Internment In Nazi Germany

Nine years after Dachau opened, the crematorium area was located beside the main camp. The old crematorium and the new crematorium was included. There was also a gas chamber, however there isn’t any credible evidence that the gas chamber in Barrack X was used to murder human beings. The gas chambers were actually for something called “selection”. Selection was when all of the Jews at the camp would go to the gas chambers to be evaluated. If a Jew was marked down as not strong enough to do work or too sick then they were sent to the Hartheim "euthanasia" killing center near Linz, Austria. Many Jewish people were killed this way. The crematoria are was also where the SS camp guards would kill prisoners; they would also kill the prisoners at the firing range. Another way that the Jewish People and prisoners were killed at Dachau was when German physicians would do medical experiment on the prisoners “including high-altitude experiments using a decompression chamber, malaria and tuberculosis experiments, hypothermia experiments, and experiments testing new medications. Prisoners were also forced to test methods of making seawater potable and of halting excessive bleeding” ("Dachau"). During this process there were hundreds of prisoners left dead, or with permanent disabilities. During World War II all of the Jews were forced to do work “Prisoners were forced to do this work, starting with the

At first, the Nazis were only killing political opponents like Communists and/or Social Democrats, for which their harshest persecution was used. Many of the first prisoners sent to Dachau (The first official concentration camp opened near Munich in March of 1933) were communists. By July, the concentration camps run by the Germans held around 27,000 people in what they called “protective custody.” The Nazis had huge rallies and acts of symbolism such as burning of books by Jews. During the years of 1933 to 1939, the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were able to leave Germany got out quickly, but many were left behind, and they lived their lives in a constant state of uncertainty and fear. During the fall of 1939, Hitler started the so-called Euthanasia Program. The Euthanasia Program allowed Nazi officials to select around 70,000 German citizens institutionalized for mental illnesses or disabilities. These Germans were to be gassed to death. After prominent German

“…Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same

Imagine your government blaming you for the actions of the race you come from and them ultimately imprisoning you with no remorse. During WWII this situation happened to innocent Japanese Americans out of fear and prejudice. Americans put these innocent citizens in internment camps without solid evidence of them being spies and traitors.By the US acting on fear and prejudice we have damaged and harmed innocent Japanese Americans going against what America stands for and what is right.

Just like during the First World War, United States wanted to stay neutral. After the Pearl Harbor attack, that wasn’t the case anymore. United States went full throttle into the war and everyday life was drastically changed. Everyday necessities such as food, gas, and clothing were dramatically rationed, women found jobs as electricians, welders, and riveters. People started to collect scrap metal to help build the proper equipment for the war effort. One major change in the United States was the treatment of German Americans. Everyone knows about the treatment of Japanese Americans, but German Americans had it just as bad if not worse.(Heinrich) German Americans had the property confiscated, had registration requirements, and travel restrictions. Even though German Americans had nothing to do with world war 2, They were still considered enemy aliens, put into internment camps, and had their civil liberties taken away.

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.

World War II, created hysteria around the world that took years to get over. It affected so many different people, but, this essay will be focusing on the Japanese-AMERICANS affected during World War II. I am against the fact that these people were put into internment camps. My reasoning is that they didn’t pose a national threat, the internment camps promoted racism, and the internment camps can be see as a shameful episode on behalf of the US.

During World War 2 there were so many chaoses around the world. One of the most outrageous events that happened is the internment of Germans. The U.S. should have never brought up the idea of sending Germans and Americans with German background in internment camps just because they were with Germany. There were too many Germans living in the U.S., many of them were loyal to the U.S. and were against the Nazis, and they were being discriminated without providing a real reason.

The next concentration camp, Dachau, is located in Germany. This camp was the longest running major concentration camp throughout the Holocaust. It started being used in March 1933 and was not shut down until April 1945. This was a forced labor camp, so the majority of people survived when at this camp, but you didn’t always get to stay there unless you worked as hard as

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

Foreigners who seek asylum and new beginnings often go to The United States of America to seek freedom, opportunity and equality. America, to most Asian Americans perceived the United States of Americas as the "land of the free" or "the land of opportunity". People who migrate to the United States of America, have high exceptions and hopes to obtain a better life for not only for themselves and their families but for future generations. However, the land of opportunity isn't for sale for people of color and is not so welcoming from people from other countries. Foreigners go to America due to rural and corruptions and or forced out of their country in hope to be free from the chaos. They often choose America, for the famous slogan "the land

Oppression. Tyranny. Abuse . Persecution. All word used to describe the acts of Hitler, Germany, and some Middle Eastern groups presently at large today. Most of which, when it really come down to it, can be traced all the way back to the thought that: you are bad, you are lesser, or you are different. Because of those thoughts, it has led to many unjust acts like the one in America. In early times of fighting for human equality many regrettable things had happened, but none of them compare to when we forced the imprisonment of thousands in internment camps.

Despite the Nazis best attempt to destroy their lives and strip away all their humanity, the Jews still found a way to resist the oppression and fight back. Their were often uprisings in the ghettos and camps, where the Jews would use all they could and fight the Nazi soldiers for their freedom. Today I will be talking about the Auschwitz Birkenau Uprising.

The holocaust was an event that undoubtedly left a mark on millions of people’s lives. But among those people, those most affected were the survivors who, by chance, could walk away from Auschwitz with their lives. Upon reflection of the tragedies we now know occurred within the Jewish internment camps, one can only imagine the scarring effects that must have been left on the survivors. Through three texts I was able to identify a conversation of just how deteriorating the Jewish internment camps were to those who managed to live through them.

Not long after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, the Nazi’s began establishing concentration camps in Germany as early as 1933. These camps housed people who were against and who were believed to be against Nazi policy. People from all over the areas of Nazi power that did not accept the new policies were captured and sent on trains straight to one of many concentration camps. Conditions at the camps were worse than terrible. Upon arrival the men and woman would be stripped of all belongings, even the clothing they were wearing and would be lined up.