The Holocaust: Concentration Camps During The Holocaust

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.

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party used nationalism to great effect in Germany that spured the Second World World. After WWI, many Germans blamed the new government for accepting the unfair treaty as conditions became miserable. People who could not find jobs began to drift into the Communist and National Socialist parties established by Hitler. They decided that it was the necessary solution. In 1933, Hitler came to power as dictator of Germany and preached a racist brand of fascism. He promised to end the humiliating conditions caused by the German defeat in WWI. He knew how to win people's obedience and trust, through their fears and insecurities. He almost immediately got Germany back into the factories and began secretly building up army and weapons. His real motives were to expand German territory and dominate Europe and the whole world that became the prelude to another war.

After World War I, Adolf Hitler was one of the dictators that arose; which then gained power in Germany in its Great Depression. Hitler rose to power using techniques such as propaganda, censorship, charisma and terror, but that was not all he did. Hitler started his own fascist party in Germany and called it the Nazi Party. Later, Hitler developed anti-semitism, or prejudice against Jews and dehumanized them. He viewed Jews as a separate race not a religion. This caused many changes particularly to the Jews. During World War I the Nazi’s treatment of the Jews caused political, economic, and social changes.

Holocaust is the most terrible human action in the history. It absolutely marks the ending of the previous mentality of human-beings. Therefore, a new round of discovery of evilness of human nature has been established. Best uncovering the truth of Holocaust will help prevent the furthur destuction of humanism, which is the most important mission of the society after World War II. There are many sources of Holocaust trying to best uncover the truth, such as the inhabitant’s experience of the immediate suffering in the camp, fragment memories from the survivors. However, only the analyzations with critical sights of these horrible actions will appeal for just humanitarian attentions to the most extent.

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

Despite the Nazis best attempt to destroy their lives and strip away all their humanity, the Jews still found a way to resist the oppression and fight back. Their were often uprisings in the ghettos and camps, where the Jews would use all they could and fight the Nazi soldiers for their freedom. Today I will be talking about the Auschwitz Birkenau Uprising.

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)

The holocaust was an event that undoubtedly left a mark on millions of people’s lives. But among those people, those most affected were the survivors who, by chance, could walk away from Auschwitz with their lives. Upon reflection of the tragedies we now know occurred within the Jewish internment camps, one can only imagine the scarring effects that must have been left on the survivors. Through three texts I was able to identify a conversation of just how deteriorating the Jewish internment camps were to those who managed to live through them.

Inmates resembled skeletons and were so weak they were unable to move. The smell of burning bodies was ever present and piles of corpses were scattered around the camp. However, you could be “saved” from the crematoria to be used as test subjects to cruel experimentation and used as lab rats for any experiment the scientists wanted to conduct. Later in the war, extermination camps were built. These were specialized for the mass murder of Jews using Zyklon B to ensure a painful, long, and torturous death. The bodies would then be thrown into the fire and all clothes, teeth, and shoes would be sent to pursue the German war front. At max efficiency, 20,000 people would be killed in the gas chambers a day. As the red Army approached near to liberate the Jews in concentration and extermination camps, SS officers sent prisoners on a death march across hundreds of miles, where they ran with no food or water, no matter the weather, until they reached the closest camp. SS officers proceeded to blow up the camps to hide the genocide from the

The prisoners in the concentration camps were worked to death—literally. They were given little to no food at all making it hard for their bodies to cooperate with work. Though some of them were badly ill they were still forced to work until they were not fit to work anymore. If they were to shown any signs of sickness, such as: coughing, etc., they were either badly beaten or killed by one of the Nazi soldiers. I don't know how someone could be so cruel and treat people like this; i don't how long I would have been able to survive something like

Comprehending the life suffered by those forced into German concentration camps is inconceivable, for only those who experienced such trauma can understand. Authors such as Primo Levi present readers with a glimpse into the daily, sorrowful life of prisoners. Levi, an Italian Jew and chemist, was captured by the fascist army in December of 1943. At only twenty-four years of age, he admitted to his ignorance and inexperience which would fail to help him transition into Auschwitz. Levi’s time in Auschwitz compelled him to view humanity as self-interested men who lost sympathy for each other in the means of survival.

When the Jewish first arrived to the camp, (tired, dirty, hungry, and thirsty from the train ride), they were immediately split into two separate groups men on one side and women and children on the other. After they were brutally separated from their families all of their personal belongings were taken away, and they were tested to see who could work and who was at this point, too weak. The weak workers were either shot or put into a gas chamber, while the strong workers moved on in the process. After tested for strength and endurance their heads were shaved (both men and women) and they got a number tattooed on there arm, to show what number prisoner they were. When that was over they6 were sent to the barracks, these were wooden or brick shacks full of 3 tiered bunks meant to comfortably hold 100-200 people. However there was an average of 700-800 people per barrack, or even more. The Jewish were fed 3 times a day, but it was a thin soup made of water and vegetable scraps (rotten bits, ends of vegetables, skins etc.) and bread made out of sawdust. Also the “prisoners” were forced to do grueling work such as carrying heavy bricks up a mountain or even collecting the dead bodies of their fellow religion, if they failed to do this work correctly or efficiently they would be beaten, shot, or gassed. By the end of the Holocaust, over 6 million Jewish people and 5 million

Adolf began his young adult life in Vienna where he tried to become an artist and failed. Also, it was in Vienna where Adolf became consumed in the idea of the Jewish people being inferior (Cagniart, Pierre, and James). A few years later, in 1913, Hitler began his military career in Munich. After the end of World War I, Hitler returned to Munich seeking vengeance for the wrong which had been done through the Treaty of Versailles (Biography.com Editors) Hitler took place in an uprising and was sentenced to prison where he wrote his most famous work, Mein Kampf, describing how Germany would be turned back into order. He also expressed his Nazi ideas in the book, as well (Cagniart, Pierre, and James). Hitler’s most famous rampage took place a couple of years before the beginning of World War II. Hitler believed in the ideal that war would bring colonization for the German people. He took over a number of lands, but the one which triggered World War II was his attempt to conquer Poland. Hitler aligned himself with the Soviet Union, but later forfeited their truce by attempting to overtake Russia. Although Adolf was involved in many strategic war moves, his most horrendous and heart wrenching actions were killing approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others who didn’t fulfill his ideal German look. This genocide is known as the Holocaust. As the war concluded and Germany was in a state of unrest, Hitler knew his German army was defeated and decided to commit

He was decorated during his service in the German Army in World War Ⅰ. Hitler created the Nazi Party which in 1929 began to win over major businesses, conservatives and army circles. In the 1930 elections the Nazi vote jumped from 810,000 to 6,409,000. He became the Führer of Germany from 1933-45 at a time of social, political, and economical upheaval. As dictator of Nazi Germany, he initiated World War Ⅱ in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was the central figure of the Holocaust which was a program of world domination and elimination of the jews. His establishment of concentration camps to inter Jews and other groups he believed to be a threat to Aryan supremacy resulted in the death or more than 6 million people

Hitler was a soldier in Germany during WWI after WWI he stayed in Germany and was a soldier. Hitler went up through the rankings during his time in the army and in September 1919, Hitler joined an organization called the D.A.P. The D.A.P was an anti-sematic, nationalist, and anti-Marxist idea. This was the Nazi Party (Biography.com). They tried to overthrow the government to help out the community because the treaty did not help them out any but it failed and got Hitler thrown in jail which is where he wrote Mein Kampf (History.com). Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work outlines Hitler's political ideas and future plans for Germany (LeadershipGeeks.com). Hitler had plans to take Germany to the top. He ran for president against Paul Hindenburg and lost, but was made chancellor as chancellor, he showed everyone that he knew what he was doing and used a bunch of propaganda that helped turn everyone to like him (Biography.com). Hitler has always been able to talk to people into doing things for him. Hitler as chancellor acted as a vice president Hindenburg even had Hitler help him lead, but once Hindenburg died, Hitler became dictator (Biography.com). Hitler used a lot of propaganda during his race for presidencies he used bandwagons, personification, and many other figurative of language. Hitler had a way with his words that could turn many people around to follow or at least listen to him. Hitler said “The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category (Brainy Quotes)”. He had many quotes, but my favorite was “The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public