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The Effects Of Concentration Camps On The World

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Emerald Hussey 1
Concentration Camps detained and confined people under harsh conditions and forced into labor. During a terrible time for Germany for twelve tough years is when concentration camps existed. Adolf Hitler became chancellor and took over Germany; Hitler got rid of all the enemies of the state. Prisoners were forced to build materials for the German military. Numerous prisoners died, when imprisoned from starvation, exhaustion, and gas chambers. Concentration Camps were very brutal places where millions of children and adults lost their lives.
Adolf Hitler tried to get rid of anyone who threaten his government and didn’t agree with him. He constructed concentration camps purposely, to imprison Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, German communist, social democrats, and Jehovah witness. Hitler had a vision of a Master Race of Aryans that would control Europe. (Concentration Camps, 1933–1939 Web) He used very powerful propaganda techniques to convince not only the German people, but countless others, that if they eliminated the people who stood in their way and the degenerates and racially inferior- the great Germans would prosper. (IBID) Adolf forced all who he could, into concentration camps to keep the population from mixing with what he called the “corrupted” individuals. They were divided in many ways; he used his Nazi soldiers divided prisoners by different race, beliefs, and sexuality. Enemies were believed to be Germany’s economic hardship and that is why they

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