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What Is Auschwitz-Birkenau: Necessary Or Harmful?

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Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest concentration camp owned by the Nazi political party to imprison minorities. Built in 1940, the concentration camp held over a million prisoners the Nazis felt to be inferior to them.Controlled by the dictator, Adolf Hitler, most of the German people fully approved his ideas of anti-semitism even if they did support him from fear. The prisoners died from multiple factors which include the constant forced labor put upon them, malnutrition, preventable diseases, and the gas chambers. Originally, the concentration camp was a way to create fear within the Polish community. This shows that the Nazi political party gained power and control through fear, “The function of the camp initially was planned as an intimidation to Poles to prevent …show more content…

Michael Berenbaum also claims, “It could not have arisen earlier because not enough was known specifically about Auschwitz, and the camps were outside the range of Allied bombers” (Berenbaum). Countries in the Allied powers did not want to advance on their plan to bomb the concentration camps because it would be looked upon as wrong to bomb a camp filled with innocent prisoners, but Michael Berenbaum states, “To be willing to sacrifice innocent civilians, one would have had to perceive accurately conditions in the camp and to presume that interrupting the killing process would be worth the loss of life in Allied bombings” (Berenbaum). Ultimately, Auschwitz was the most horrid of all the Nazi concentration camps used to imprison minorities during World War II. The conditions in which prisoners were kept in were inhumane and the majority of people were aware of this, but with the tyrannical rule the Nazi political party held, many people did not want to oppose otherwise. This is a subject matter that should not be forgotten and be used instead as a lesson for future

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