Hitler's Concentration Camps

In the beginning the concentration camps they were not even planned, to be mainly for Jews, in the beginning they had started with criminals and political prisoners. Later on Adolf Hitler wanted to have a “better” future, so who ever interfered in his plan was a threat so he had sent them to jail. People who

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.

Concentration camps was definitely not the best place for a person to be in. They put people in there who were detained or confined, and the prisoners were kept in extremely harsh conditions and they didn’t have any rights. According to https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005144he camps had a variety of different facilities which included labor camps, prisoner of war camps, transit camps, and camps that were killing centers, called

There used to be places that were known for torture, forced labor, and murder. People were dragged out of their own homes to be brought there. These places were called concentration camps. They were the largest Nazi killing centers and they took the lives of over a million Jews. The camps are an important part of history that we will never forget.

There were six camps which operated like this, day and night throughout German-occupied Poland: Auschwitz, Chelmno, Sobibor, Majdanek, and Treblinka and Belzec (Berenbaum, par. 16).

​A Concentration Camp was a place where they held Jews and other prisoners which they treated very harshly. There were twenty three major concentration camps all over the world. Such as Poland, Germany, Netherlands, and France. Also there were Extermination Camps which is where mass murders occurred during this time. Some of these camps were called Belzec, Chelmno, and Majdanek. Even though they were treated poorly, some of the prisoners survived.

    To be technical the holocaust began in January 1933 and ended 1945. Concentration camps were first built in March for millions of Jews. Concentration camps were purposely made to have wear out the people who were taken there. According to Wikipedia, “It is estimated that Germans established 15,000 camps and subcamps in occupied

The first concentration camp was created in 1933, just a few weeks after Hitler became chancellor. A total of twenty-two were created, and all together included 1,200 affiliated camps. The camps were found all over Germany. At first political opponents of Nazi policy were taken, and later Jews, gypsies, or criminals. Each camp consisted of barracks which were surrounded by barbed wire, watchtowers, and guards. Imprisonment in the camp included inhuman force labor, hunger, disease, mistreatment, and random executions. Prisoners were forced to work twelve hours day, or even more. The sick, old or those who could not keep up were killed by either gas, or injections. Those who could endure

To begin with, the first ever concentration camp out of many was Dachau, it opened March 20, 1933 (Holocaust Facts). The Nazis built six camps: Chelmo, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, and lastly Majdanek (Holocaust Facts). Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp and extermination camp built. Extermination camps were meant for killing large groups of people quickly and smoothly (Holocaust Facts). Each one of the camps killed at least 60,000-80,000 people and much more (Extermination Camps).

The Camp System shows and explains how the campsites were run and how they looked. From 1933, thousands of camps came about. Primarily, the most heard of camps were Auschwitz-Birkeanu, Treblinka, Dachau and Chelmno, just to name a few. Most of the camps were established in Poland by the

In around the 1940’s Adolf Hitler began running the camps we know today concentration camps that were only for Jewish people. When camps were created, they were not meant to kill anyone. They were made as detention centers for political prisoners.But if you go into the years mainly you would see teenagers doing all the work. Why teenagers you ask well because they were not too young to know what’s going on and they are not to old to do any labor.

To begin, concentration camps did not originate in World War II. In fact, this idea for a camp was invented by soldiers and generals in other wars that occurred not too many years before The Holocaust. The first concentration was brought up by general Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau in the Cuban insurrection against Spain in 1896. Concentration camps were also used in the Philippine-American war in the first decade of the 1900’s. The concentration camps in these wars just mentioned were used mainly for labor and penal. However, armies weren’t as big on execution as the Nazi’s were. The Nazi’s bumped up the idea of concentration camps to turn it

One of the most known Concentration camps was Auschwitzs. Located in Southern Poland, Auschwitzs was the largest Concentration camp, which also had the most deaths. There were many smaller camps inside Auschwitzs including the extermination camp at Birkenau. Here they had four large gas chambers that held around 2,000 people each. On January 25th 1945 the Solviet army liberated the camp. But shortly before its liberation 60,000 prisoners were sent on a death march. If you couldnt continue any farther or fell behind you were shot.

The first concentration camp started 1933 which mostly consist of communist which were people who

The Nazi concentration camps were established beginning in 1933 for the purpose of imprisoning political opponents. The S.S. expanded the concentration camp system, and used these facilities to warehouse other "undesirables," including hundreds of thousands of Jews. Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen were among the first concentration camps