preview

The Holocaust, Life, And Concentration Camps In The Holocaust

Decent Essays

Concentration Camps

The Holocaust was a dreadful time in history full of the exploitation and killing of innocent people based upon their religion. Mainly the Jews but also other ethnicities were victims of harsh forced labor and merciless mistreatment that is unimaginable. They were held in foul conditions that aided in the spread of diseases and they faced malnutrition leading to the fatalities of many. Multitudes of people were not only killed by the disease, mistreatment and poor living conditions but even more were exterminated by the Nazis. Concentration camps were inhumane, and unsanitary leading to the deaths of many innocent people.
The Nazis started the concentration camps before the war started, and in them Adolf Hitler’s twisted dream of racial purity. Hitler wanted the jews and POWs to suffer, so he made conditions in the camp unsafe and very inhumane. “Germans allowed millions of Soviet POWs to die through neglect” (“Forced Labor: In Depth”). When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union they captured prisoners of war and purposefully killed them by starving them. This caused the camps to have an abundance of dead bodies that the Nazis had to get rid of. Some camps forced the prisoners to dispose of the corpses into mass graves leaving them vulnerable to disease. “Liberators confronted unspeakable conditions in the Nazi camps, where piles of corpses lay unburied” (“Liberation of Nazi Camps”). Those corpses that lay unburied caused disease to spread across the camp

Get Access