How Africans Became Victims Of The German Concentration Camps

As mentioned before, violence was a key component in Europe’s colonization of Africa. Countless fights and rebellions took place, and the Europeans won the vast majority of them. One African veteran of a rebellion against the British recalled that after the natives surrendered, they “were treated like slaves” and harmed by “the White people” (Document 4). Another African, the leader of the Herero people, wrote about the Germans in a letter to another African leader saying that “each day they shoot someone dead for no reason at all” (Document 5). This segment does contain some bias since it was written to explain the difficult situation of someone being oppressed by Germans. Nonetheless, brutality against Africans was known to take place and this was one of many incidents. As shown in these two sources, Africans were essentially not treated as humans; they were persecuted by Europeans in unfair and often uncalled for ways. Previous to the unwelcome appearance of the Europeans, the natives were able to live their lives under their own terms for the most part. But the arrival of Europeans brought on drastic change: Africans went from being free to practically

Have you ever heard of the nasty, disgusting, and horrible conditions that jews had to suffer with in concentration camps during the Holocaust? Lice and fleas are a big part of conditions in concentration camps, another horrible condition in the camps are diseases and sanitation, lastly another awful condition in concentration camps is mass murder and starvation. Many people died in concentration camps during the Holocaust because of the environment the jews had to live in and deal with, and many families were split and torn apart because loved ones of theirs had died because of the horrible conditions in the camps.

Around 1600 (C.E), the United States began importing blacks from the continent of Africa for slave labor; and the Constitution later adopted by the colonies declared blacks 3/5 of a person (Martin, 1993). Laurence Thomas states that the Adolph Hitler’s

In the video, “The Magnificent African Cake” by Basil Davidson, Africa was divided up into new colonies by Europeans. After the end of slavery in Africa, Europeans wanted to expand their empires for industrialization and commerce. This period of time was called the “scramble for Africa” because many European countries were claiming as much land from Africa. In 1884, the Berlin Congress was held and these European countries “sliced” up the African countries like a cake where each country got its portion of land. The opinions and representation of Africans was non existent. In fact, Europeans considered Africans as “helpless children or lazy settlers.” This led to the feeling that Africans were inferior to Europeans and killings of Africans

Why were people put in concentration camps? Well that's due to what they were guilty of like a crime sort of and what race/religion they were. However concentration camps were not just used for work some were for killing and some were used for torture. Some kids got thrown in the camps where they kill you only because they couldn't use you for work or anything because you were too young. When you got thrown into a centration camp it was usually for your race/religion. When people usually think of concentration camps they think of torture and work and things like that but that's not the only thing that they will throw you in there for they will also throw you in there to kill you.

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.

-In West Africa, there was much anticipation for the Portuguese. When thePortuguese did come they did so peacefully, and obtained permission

“Captive African and their descendants paid with their blood and sweat for the phenomenal expansion of human possibilities in the Atlantic world”(Rice, 62). Among many groups of people that migrated to America are the African Americans. At first it was by choice, but that gradually changed to being captured and forced to migrate to America to work in the plantation fields. African Americans faced racial oppression and prejudice in a land that put in its constitution “all men are created equal.” They were treated with disrespect, hostility, and cruelty and made inferior to their fellow beings. Despite the abolishment of slavery with the thirteenth amendment, African Americans still faced prejudice and racial hostility from all around.

Thousands of people were dying every day because of the hatred for the jewish population that people displayed. People hated the Jews so much that they thought they needed to be punished. On January 30, 1933, World War II was already having thousands upon thousands of deaths per day, but it was about to get a lot worse when the Holocaust began. The Holocaust made the number of total deaths rise by about two million. The jewish people were put into concentration camps because Hitler believed they were not as good as everyone else, so he treated them terribly and their living conditions in concentration camps were awful.

After the deathly and Holocaust how did Jews ever recover? It was hard. When the Nazis were in control of Germany they took the citizenship of Jews in Germany. When the Nazis took Jews from other parts of Europe they took their nationality. So when Jews were released from Nazi rules they had no place to go, no passport, no nothing. After many camps were liberated victims went to displaced persons (DP)

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

Adolf Hitler discriminated against black people and put them in concentration camps. In Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Hitler said that “the Jews had brought the Negroes into the Rhineland with the clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily-resulting bastardization.” Then just ten years after the Holocaust ended, the Civil Rights Movement began which was the act of integrating Blacks and Whites. In the book, Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba Pattillo writes about the horrible struggle she had to battle to just get a decent education. She had to deal with violent mobs and students, bullets and dynamite; nothing a student should have to experience. It seems as if blacks or people of color never got a break from punishment. Also, in the south during the Civil War, blacks were used and served as slaves. Blacks were auctioned off and many got separated from their

In the article “Auschwitz-Birkenau” suffering was built into Auschwitz by overcrowding their prisoners, starving them, and using forced labor.  Firstly, the Nazis caused great suffering by overcrowding their prisoners in the barracks of Auschwitz Birkenau.  The Nazis squeezed from 7-9 prisoners on each plank (which is where they slept), and about 500 in each barrack. This caused the prisoners to feel uncomfortable, and lose hope in surviving, which is exactly what the Nazis wanted. In the article it states, “Each barrack held about thirty-six wooden bunk beds, and inmates were squeezed five or six across on the wooden plank. As many as 500 inmates lodged in a single barrack”(17). The Nazis built suffering into Auschwitz by cramming five hundred

Other know as Death camps or Extermination camps the Concentration camps have a horrible reputation. This was all for good reason. These camps housed people that were thought to be a danger to the German society. These prisoners were usually abused mentally and physically, they were held under extreme circumstances. The people in these camps were captured and detained without any trial or standard procedures applying to arrest and custody. The prisoners in these camps often had differing opinions on religions and practices. Other prisoners in the camps were prostitutes, homosexuals, alcoholics, drug addicts, the mentally ill, the blind, the deaf, convicts, democrats. For all of these ‘crimes’ they were sentenced death or a life of imprisonment.

Throughout history, the African people have always struggled with society going against them and their humanity. One main focus of study is the treatment of Africans in the Americas. It seemed to all have started when America was first founded in the 1600s and many white plantation owners had slaves transported from Africa to work on their land, act as servants, or crop plants.