The Role that Other Lesser-known Concentration Camps Play in the Holocaust

While in prison, he wrote “Mein Kamf” (Which means “My Struggle”). “Mein Kamf” was a memoir and propaganda tract in which he predicted “the extermination of the Jewish Race in Germany” after a general European war. About ten years after he was released from prison, Hitler arose from obscurity to power after taking advantage of the weaknesses of his enemies. On January 20 of 1933, he was named chancellor of Germany. When President Paul von Hindenburg died in 1934, Adolf appointed himself as Germany’s ruler.

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

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

Prisoners were starving, they like skeletons and they were locked up in cages like animals. When the American Army liberated Dachau, people were thankful and hopeful. “Then suddenly people (few could call them that) came from all directions. They were dirty, starved skeletons with torn tattered clothes and they screamed and hollered and cried.” (remember.org) People were grateful for getting liberated and they were either dead or as skinny as a skeleton. The Nazis treated people like animals because they thought they were apart of a higher power and that was

The Nazis' purpose in building these camps was to carry out the systematic murder of Jews as part of the Final Solution. Permanent gas chambers were made in these camps. No selections were performed in these camps. As the trains arrived men, women, and children were sent straight to the chambers. Approximately 1,700,000 Jews were murdered in these extermination camps.

The Holocaust nearly made the Jewish population and religion disappear from the face of the Earth. From January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945; Adolf Hitler, German politician and leader of the Nazi party, ran the Holocaust all over Germany and Eastern Europe. Prisoners and victims of the Holocaust include: the majority of the Jewish population, German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and people accused of socially deviant or socially unacceptable behavior. They were sent to many different areas that had different purposes. The most used places they were sent to are called concentration camps. Once they entered the concentration camps, there was no escaping; those people officially became prisoners. There were 23 main concentration camps and around 900 sub camps. Concentration camps tricked the Jewish people into coming into them by offering them a better life on the welcoming signs outside. Some of the main camps had many different inhumane uses. All of the camps are notorious for their cruel and evil ways of everything that they did to prisoners, such as the genocide the Holocaust caused (Concentration Camps, Killing Methods, Jewish Population).

In 1933 the first concentration camp was established after Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany. Concentration Camps at first were camps to detain the Nazi political enemies over time. As time went on different types of people such as the Jewish, Gypsies, poles and criminals was placed in these camps as well. At first Auschwitz-Birkenau it was a labor camp that was located near the polish city, Oswiecim. This camp was the largest of all Nazi camps in Europe. At any one time this camp could hold up to 150,000 inmates at a time. (Jewish Virtual Library) During the years of 1941-1945 for the first time in history of mankind some of the concentration camps were established into extermination

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.

So, what was Hitler’s motive with concentration camps, Hitler had nothing against the Jewish his main objective was to intimidate his enemies.Out of all the concentration camps the most popular one was called Dachau. Whenever the Jews/Prisoners were sent to the camps they

Auschwitz- Birkenau was the most horrific concentration camps in World War II, it was where the largest number of European Jews were killed in WWII during the Holocaust. Auschwitz was first constructed for Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site to carry out, the Final Solution.

By the end of the war, twenty-two main concentration camps were established, together with around 1200 affiliate camps. In 1945, when allied forces liberated the concentration camp at Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz, the world was shocked at the sight of the dead/half-dead bodies at the camps. A concentration camp was not the same as an extermination camp-camps constructed with the specific purpose. Imprisonment in a concentration camp meant human forced labour, brutal mistreatment, hunger, disease, and random executions. Aussen Kommandos and thousands of smaller camps were murdering Jews and other victim

Horrifying, murder, screams, terror are the definition of concentration camps. Concentration camps are what the nazis used in WW2. Hitler was the mastermind behind all of this, an evil mastermind.

Concentration camps were places where individuals were constricted without a trial. Many prisoners were placed in these camps, due to being: German socialists, gypsies, homosexuals and alleged of social irregular behaviour, known as people having a disability. Conditions were appalling and extremely harsh, where prisoners were required to complete hard-working labour, no matter the circumstances that were faced. In Nazi Germany (1933), and throughout Europe (1938-1945), the Nazi’s regulated the control of the prisoners. The first camps were organised as detention centres, to prevent opposition against the Nazi regime, and were named ‘enemies of the state’

By 1921, Hitler was leading the National Socialist German Workers' Party. He was a very effective speaker and captivated audiences for hours. He was persuasive and told people what they wanted to hear. Because of this, he was a very successful propaganda artist. Driven by Germany's loss in WWI and humiliation, which was a result of the terms in the treaty of Versailles, Hitler found many followers who sympathized with his cause. After his political group failed an attempt to overpower the Bavarian government, he was arrested and jailed for nine months. While imprisoned, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle), which was his autobiography, and it was full of his political ideas as well as the policies for what would become the Nazi organization. Later, he would use this book to spread his ideas and indoctrinate people into the Nazi party. At one point in time, he tried to destroy all other books in Germany. He required that Mein Kampf be taught in the schools, and children learned at a very young age that they were to be Nazis and support Hitler.

Following the war he lived in war-torn Germany and attended many political gatherings. The turning point of Hitler's mesmerizing oratorical career occurred at a Nazi party meeting held on October 16, 1919. Hitler's emotional delivery of an impromptu speech captivated his audience. Through word of mouth, donations poured into the party's coffers, and subsequent mass meetings attracted hundreds of Germans eager to hear the young, forceful and hypnotic leader. With the assistance of party staff, Hitler drafted a party program consisting of twenty-five points. This platform was presented at a public meeting on February 24, 1920, with over 2,000 eager participants. After hecklers were forcibly removed by Hitler supporters armed with rubber truncheons and whips, Hitler electrified the audience with his masterful demagoguery.