Hitler Youth Camps During World War II

World War II was a time of grieving those lost, praying for near ones, and coming together as one to survive. The notorious concentration camps; established as part of Hitler's Final Solution to exterminate all Jews, left one of the longest lasting impacts on world history. Soon after, the United States put an internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor due to stereotypes surrounding their race. Comparing the German concentration camps to the American internment camps shows a contrast in the harsh reality of the living conditions in these concentration camps and the more peaceful approach that was kept within internment camps in America. These differences and similarities can be shown in the

2. On page 12, the narration changes. Why might it be necessary for someone else to begin telling Janie’s story now?

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.

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.

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

Eleven million people died during the Holocaust of these eleven million people 2.4 million died from medical experiments conducted by German forces. These experiments were conducted mainly for three reasons. The first of which was to help the Germans gain knowledge that would help them better understand things that would have been viewed as threats or weaknesses to their military (Holocaust Museum). For example the Germans knew little of hypothermia and the weather located on the eastern front, so freezing experiments were conducted at Auschwitz concentration camp where most of their medical experiments occurred (Remember ). The second reason the Germans did medical experiments was to further their knowledge on how to pharmaceutically

In only six years, two-thirds of an entire race, plus millions more, were shot, gassed, or starved to death. Anyone who was deemed “racially inferior or politically dangerous” was sent to one of many in the camps system. Among these groups were the physically or mentally handicapped, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Jews, Gypsies, Poles and Soviet prisoners of war, and Communists (Berenbaum par. 1-2). Millions of innocent people were sent to camps where they were killed or forced to work for the German cause until they died.

The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and most brutal events in history. Many citizens all over Germany and Poland were persecuted, such as homosexuals. Over 5,000 homosexuals died in camps alone. Homosexual men faced harsh treatment by Nazis by being sent to work camps, subjected to hard labor, and attempts to “cure” them based on the Nazi belief that they were a disease to Germany.

The Japanese internment camps are not the same compared to Jewish concentration camps one is for protection another is for prison.The Jews were useless to the Nazis and the Japanese just wanted protection from the war.The Americans never helped the Jews until the Japanese attacked pearl harbor.The Jews were held up in the concentration camps to them it was like prison.Japanese internment camps and Jewish concentration camps are not the same because the purpose of the camps are different,the way people were treated,and the outcome of the camps.

Look at some of the pictures on page 5 of your packet? Could these people be your family, friends, neighbors, etc.?

In early 1930’s one of the darkest times in history, a worldwide depression had hit Germany. Adolf Hitler conducted a slave raid throughout the Soviet Union during World War II.

What is the Holocaust? The Holocaust was an attempt of genocide toward the Jewish race:

Anti-semitism in Germany led by Adolf Hitler would back up a plan called the final solution, to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe. Out of the 100 million Jews aimed for extermination, 6 million of them were killed. On his path to German greatness, Jews became victim to inconceivable actions. First the Nuremberg Laws were passed which stripped Jews of their german citizenship, eliminating their opportunity to flee to other countries. After Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Hitler forcefully deported Jewish people into fenced confinements called ghettos. More Jews died here than in any extermination camp due to the harsh conditions and labor. Most people living in ghettos had no access to running water or a sewage system and overcrowding

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.

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.