Alan Grantz: Concentration Camps During World War II

According to famous author and Holocaust survivor Alan Grantz, “I shook with helpless and rage, but also with fear. This was what fighting back earned you. More abuse. More death. Half a dozen of Jews would be murdered today because one man refused to die without a fight.” Adolf Hitler and his Nazis set up concentration camps to further imprison his control over the Jews. Concentration camps had two types of camps, death camps and work camps where they were either enslaved and worked under devastating conditions, or they were immediately killed. These concentration camps were set up all over Germany but primarily Poland. Enemies of the state or the people that protested the Nazi were kept under control so that Adolf Hitler could still dominate
For example, the first concentration camp was set up as detention centers to stop any opposition to the Nazis, and was concentration camps were located all over Europe, but primarily Poland. The Nazis could now imprison their control and could have much power over Europe. Concentration camps held two purposes, which were to dehumanize and to demoralize, and some of these camps were also created to arrest people and forced labor under very harsh conditions. “The Holocaust was a watershed event in human history. In the aftermath of World War II, the world’s individual nations to the United Nations confronted its legacy, when the Nazis took control of forced labor “(Memorial Museum 1). Furthermore, concentration camps left its mark behind as a site where Nazi authorities could kill targeted people (enemies) or they worked labor under harsh conditions. Adolf Hitler and his German Nazis became very powerful as they had control of most of Europe, so they set up concentration camps to imprison enemies and to continue dominating their control. So, local civilian authorities organized these camps so that they could incarcerate real and political opponents of Nazi policy. In conclusion, the Nazis set up these concentration camps to keep their control against any opposing enemies, so that they could remain
For example, Auschwitz, which was known as the Camp of Death, was recognized as the most efficient concentration camp by the Nazis. These Nazis had thousand of Jewish people working under forced labor under very heaving living conditions, and this has been often pointless and humiliating. “Even before the war began, the Nazis imposed forced labor on Jewish civilians both inside and outside the concentration camps” (United States Holocaust Encyclopedia 1). To add, some prisoners were subjected to work to death, meaning that they had the potential to survive the final solution. At work and death camps, people worked for countless amounts of hours and many sadly died. The death camps were used to kill a large number of Jews very efficiently and effectively, as they used poisonous gas or killed them blatantly. So, Jews were either killed, or they were basically sentenced to work to death, meaning that they had to work in terrible, unhygienic, and gruesome conditions. In conclusion, work and death camps had a terrible effect on the Jewish people, as they were being enslaved and controlled by the