Death Camps: The Horrors Of The Holocaust

The term concentration camp is a camp where people are detained or confined under harsh conditions. Many cultures were placed there for nothing more than being different. Adolf Hitler, leader and chancellor, built concentration camps for the “enemies of the state.” They simply did nothing wrong but since they were a different culture or religion than Hitler would’ve liked them to be, he arrested and placed them there for being “alleged subversives.” Hitler began hating the Jews after World War I, they believed the Jews were the cause of Germany’s loss during the war. Germany was sent into extreme debt and they only people who should be responsible for paying back the money were suppose to be the jewish because they were very frugal and had learned to save their money well. The Concentration camps began popping up all over Germany, the first camp being in Dachau. Hitler made Jews wear the

The rise of Anti- Semitism was affecting the Jews all over Europe. Jewish towns and neighbourhoods were being confined to ghettos starting in 1939. After living in ghettos for approximately 2 years and living under unbearable conditions, German soldiers rounded up Jews and began to place them on trains, not telling them their destination. The experiences of Elie Wiesel and Irene Fogel Weiss are just two of the millions of stories that exist. Not only has the Holocaust left physical scars, but psychological scars as well which Viktor Frankel has written a book about, being a psychologist and a Holocaust survivor.

Holocaust is the most terrible human action in the history. It absolutely marks the ending of the previous mentality of human-beings. Therefore, a new round of discovery of evilness of human nature has been established. Best uncovering the truth of Holocaust will help prevent the furthur destuction of humanism, which is the most important mission of the society after World War II. There are many sources of Holocaust trying to best uncover the truth, such as the inhabitant’s experience of the immediate suffering in the camp, fragment memories from the survivors. However, only the analyzations with critical sights of these horrible actions will appeal for just humanitarian attentions to the most extent.

Camp Dachau from 1933 - 1945 The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying times in the history of our world, so there’s a lot to talk about on the topic. I chose to discuss Dachau, and what happened when it was a concentration camp. All that happened with one goal in mind, to murder all Jews and all other people that weren't "pure. " You'll hear from survivors, learn about what happened at the camp, and how it affected the world.

Nazi forces had started the mass bloodshed of Jews as early as 1939, when Germany initially attacked Poland. By 1942, the supposed 'Final solution' began developing, as the killings turn out to be progressively efficient and Hitler pushed his subordinates to quicken the procedure. Amid the earlier year, S.S. leaders had explored different avenues regarding distinctive routines, and gas chambers ended up being the solution of choice.

The Holocaust was an event in history that set out to get rid of all the Jew’s. The Nazis did this by having concentration camps meant to work the Jew’s to extreme levels of exhaustion and made them go through other things that led to the deaths of some of the Jew’s. Countless concentration camps were used to kill off the Jew’s of any age and gender or to have them die of the daily activities that they did. There were many concentration camps, including well known ones, such as Auschwitz, which were a little different on the specific jobs that they had, but most of the concentration camps followed the same daily schedule. Their days would always start off early and end in the dark hours of the night. The daily life in the concentration camps

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

Because of the Holocaust and all the concentration camps being so horrific many people seem to doubt if it was an actual occurrence. Even though there is physical evidence that the holocaust did occur including hundreds of thousand of moralities, people refuse to believe that there were people that were extremely relentless and sickening that could actually do such scaring and horrific abuse. Many people refused to believe that there were camps that were called concentration camps where they sent millions of people, mostly of the Jewish hope, to be put to work in extreme conditions. These people were separated from their families and were given barely a ration of food. After time especially after World War Two, when many people decided to tell

Concentration camps were the brutal platforms of genocide the world has ever seen. Concentration camps initially held about 45,000 tortured prisoners while being kept in harsh conditions and cruel punishments. When innocent people entered the camps they had no rights at all and had to remove any remnants of personal identity. Over several hundred thousand people died in concentration camps due to cruel mistreatment, hunger, and disease. The first camp was established in Germany after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. All concentration camps consisted of different routines and conditions such as the most known camps Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau.

"When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age prisoners' homes, but instruments of terror"- Adolf Hitler. During the Holocaust, concentration camps killed more than six millions Jews. Concentration camps are in the past, but everyone should know the history and the devastation of the Holocaust and its camps

Auschwitz- the most populated and popular concentration camp within the Holocaust. Soviet troops freed the people incarcerated within the camp. That day, over 7,000 prisoner were released, mostly ill and dying because of the long term effects of the camps. Between 1940 and 1945, over 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz and over 1.1 million were murdered.

The gas chamber was a small confined room where jews were gassed with Zyklon B. The rooms were precisely 30 m long, 7 m wide, and 2.41 m high, giving a floor space of 210 m2. The ceiling consisted of about 22 cm reinforced concrete covered with 45 cm of earth. The gas chambers could hold up to about 2,000 jews in each one. The first gas chamber was built at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and elsewhere.

In 1944, medical doctor Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew and family man, arrived at the Auschwitz camp in Poland. In an effort to stay alive after being separated from his daughter and wife—though he feared his days would soon be counted—he volunteered to work as a pathologist under Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Working under the supervision of a Nazi superior meant one became Sonderkommando. As a Sonderkommando, one had the privilege to wear civilian clothes and receive better meals. Hence, working for Dr. Mengele, Dr. Nyiszli had certain privileges other Jewish prisoners did not obtain.

“In spite of all the terrible things that happened to me, I did not allow Hitler to make me feel less than human.” (Holocaust). Hitler made people feel like they were nothing, he would take their lives away because he didn’t like them. It is important to know that what Hitler did to the Jews is not right. Auschwitz is still standing today as a place people can visit. Many people feel offended by this. Auschwitz is still affecting people today on how they feel and act.

Known as one of the most horrific events in history, World War II (WW2) caused tremendous adversity and suffering amongst the lives of people across the globe. However, what is most concerning about the war, was what happened behind closed doors, specifically within Germany. The Holocaust is still considered one the worst ethnic cleansing attacks in the world. Although there is an endless amount of research and hard evidence of the Holocaust occurring, certain groups of individuals strongly reject it. Known as “Holocaust Denial”, this conspiracy theory has always been personally intriguing due to several reasons and will be analyzed more thoroughly.