Genocide In Everyday Life

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.

Eighteen million Europeans went through the Nazi concentration camps. Eleven million of them died, almost half of them at Auschwitz alone.1 Concentration camps are a revolting and embarrassing part of the world’s history. There is no doubt that concentration camps are a dark and depressing topic. Despite this, it is a subject that needs to be brought out into the open. The world needs to be educated on the tragedies of the concentration camps to prevent the reoccurrence of the Holocaust. Hitler’s camps imprisoned, tortured, and killed millions of Jews for over five years. Life in the Nazi concentration camps was full of terror and death for its individual prisoners as well as the entire Jewish

Upon arrival at a concentration camp, victims did not realized what these “camps” consisted of. Some say that they didn’t exist. Others knew exactly what occurred at these camps from gossip or friends that had escaped. Uniforms were issued to each individual according to the crime they had committed. A yellow triangle placed on the uniform displayed that you were Jewish. Pink triangles displayed homosexuality. Triangles with a brown tint exhibited gypsies. Red triangles paraded communism. Triangles that were green displayed that a prisoner was a criminal. A double lined electric barbed fence surrounded all camps in Europe. Snipers then sat in stands to view the camp from above. At night they would use spotlights to guard the surroundings. Scattered around the grounds would be about a dozen soldiers marching the premises looking and scavenging around for mishap. It was as if the people within the camp were animals, restrained and punished when committing a wrongdoing. “When someone would disobey or not listen to a guard, we would be forced to strip down to the nude and roll around in hot coals until the body bled from everywhere. Once this was complete, you either died from infection or suffered severe burns.” (David 91). Seven million were forced to work at a concentration camp during the Holocaust. This boosted the economy because this was unpaid labor. Concentration camps existed because the Nazis couldn’t just exterminate all Jews or

In the camps, the prisoners were continuously being persecuted and there were always selections going on as well. The selections would determine whether you were valuable to them or not. If you weren’t, you were killed and if you were, you continued to work. All of these things caused the Jews to be in a state of hopelessness and apathy while always being quite anxious too (Gutman, 1). With

The Holocaust concentration camps were one of the things that has happened in world history. The Nazi, Germany and its allies established concentration camps all throughout Germany. The concentration camps were there for a range of reasons. These camps were used to jail those who opposed Hitler’s government or were thought to threaten it. The living in the camps was a brutal time. When you were in the camp you would work from sunup to sundown and get just little piece of bread to eat in the evenings.

There has been many stories on how cruel the victims of the Holocaust were treated, especially in the concentration camps. The Auschwitz concentration camps, out of many other camps is where this all occurred.The victims were abused and put through forced labor, it was physically and mentally hard for them to live in the camps knowing in the matter of days they will die. The prisoners in the camps were forced to work, the sick and disabled prisoners were killed as they were seen as “useless” since they were not capable of working. The labor consisted of digging ditches, leveling the ground, laying roads, and constructing new blocks and buildings for a tough 11-14 hours a day. During the tiring and inevitable hours of working, the prisoners had small rations of food.The meals were

During the Holocaust, the living conditions for the Jewish population were horrifying and unthought of. The lack of sanitary facilities meant they had to remove dirt and pests from clothing by waiting in a line that took up most of the day. The barracks that the prisoners slept in was in terrible conditions and the rooms were damp with leaky roofs (“Auschwitz…”). The health and how the jewish lived was no concern of the Nazi soldiers.

Imagine walking through a rusted metal fence, a lingering smell in the air that never really went away. You look to your left and see Nazi soldiers beating a man in a worn out striped suit. You look to your right and see a bulldozer moving piles of pale bodies from one building to another. This was nothing out of the ordinary during the troubling times of World War II, and with this, there came genocide. This horrifying act was shown through the Holocaust and concentration camps; one of the most notorious being Auschwitz. Genocide is the intent to terminate an entire race or religion. For example, Hitler had a plan of genocide towards the Jews. Not only were the people who were born from Jewish descent were tortured, but the people who also

It wasn’t just the fact that you had to work and go through harsh conditions but sometimes you wouldn’t be fed either. During a ten year decade, more than 40,000 concentration camps were built for all the poor jews and persons Hitler hated too. When people would first go there, they didn’t know what was going on ; they just knew something bad and scary was going to occur in the following days. Then the families would get separated into females or males so it would be easier to sort through them. The group of household would be terrified because the fact that they didn’t have their own blooded people around them scared them. Little kids would be sent to a different camp because Nazis found them useless and didn’t serve a purpose either. Some kids wouldn’t even make it a day through out the caps, they would just be separated and be sent straight to the crematory. Some moms were pregnant when they got to the concentration camps and those would be forced to abort and be instantly killed when they were born since they didn’t have much space to put a ton of useless kids. The age that made you survive alittle more was about 15 because they could actually put you to work. For example, younger kids would work in labors and machinery to teach them young and for them to learn for when they were older. Kids between the ages of 10 and 14 who were developed but not enough for the them would be tested on to see how they would react towards the chemicals to see how they would kill future people in the concentration camps. Testing on these kids would prove if either they were using were effective or not ;however, sometimes the chemicals wouldn’t work and would only damage the kids lungs which made them only suffer. Adults who were in group range between 18 and 45 were the ones they taked more care of since they were the most helpful. These adults had to be male howeverr because females

In the years 1933 through 1945 , was more than likely the worst 12 years in world history. This time period was called the German Holocaust. During the this time period , 6 million jews were killed throughout all of Germany. People that were Jewish , were kept in a cruel condition and had no rights what so over. The place were these people were kept at is called the Concentration Camps.

The lives of prisoners in the Holocaust was horrific due to Hitler’s rule. Between 1933-1945, there were thousands of people killed each day because of their religion and ethnic group. By the end of the Holocaust, over 6 million people had been murdered thanks to the Nazi soldiers running the concentration camps. Over the course of months, things continued to worsen and the death count increased daily. The soldiers were trained and experienced at killing which heightened the situation, considering they could kill more people than ever before. Many young children lost their chance of life because the soldiers killed everyone, no matter what age. Anyone, brought to a camp was either killed on the spot, or was worked to death by the soldiers.

The death camps were horrid and prestigious about the Jews.Treating people like they are any less.

The conditions of the camps varied from one to another, but from Stalags and Concentration camps, they were close to the same. A large portion of deaths in POW camps were from “lack of food” (Uhl 1). The recommended daily minimum was a 2,000 calorie diet (Rees 5).However this was impossible to do with the shortage of food. (Rees 5). Some of the food was “potatoes and moldy bread” (Uhl 1) which was part sawdust (Uhl 1). Many only got “5 grams” of bread (Solzhenitsyn 25). Millions of people were surely to die (Jones 11). Although the camps were harsh, the prisoners were allowed to do many activities such as sports, newspaper, musicals, and more (Uhl 2). Many camps featured musical and plays to entertain others and to be used as propaganda (Uhl 2). Even though the POW’s had better choices, they were still beaten and murdered like the others captured. (Uhl 2). In eight months, Nazis murdered 2.8 Russian Pow’s, exceeding the amount of mass murder during the holocaust. (Uhl 2). While in the camps, many died from the Baatan Death March that killed off all remaining prisoners of the Japanese (“Prisoners of War” 4). The weather was also a large aspect to the deaths. The prisoner’s “fingers were

I chose WW2 concentration camps for my research about what happened in world war 2. I’ll start by talking about all the labor that people had to do in the war. Millions of people were caught and brought to concentration camps and they had to don a bunch of work. Millions of people were worked to the bone and a lot of them died during the war.If someone was slowing them down, the soldiers would shoot the person. They would also do things like hanging them, burn them and use them as target practice. People with a higher social status most the time got better jobs than the other prisoners like indoor jobs. While the other prisoners had jobs like carrying a bunch of heavy stuff while it’s 20 below zero.

cruel, and to look at the criminals experience. Whenever they came back to Auschwitz they