Concentration Camp Research Paper

Concentration camps were first set up in 1933. They were camps in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, were deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution. The age range of the people in the cmap varied from very young to very old. In all the camps, the detainees were dehumanised and treated as mere objects. Most of the concentration camps in Germany were labour camps, but some were collection points where people were held before being moved to another camp. Others were temporary, holding places for the dying. The largest Nazi camp was Auschwitz located in Poland. Around 1.1 million people
Their heads were shaved, they were tattooed their identity numbers on their forearms and were given ill-fitted blue and white clothes to be worn. Prisoners worked long hours at least six days a week, often in difficult, dirty, or dangerous conditions. As well as construction sites and quarries, there were workshops and factories that made items for the German government. There was never enough food for the prisoners. The food was always the same, so people did not get a balanced diet and some people starved to death. Some camps used detainees to test new products and procedures. For example, experiments to investigate how much pain people could endure in a compression chamber occurred at Dachau in 1942. The findings would assist the German Air Force, but the research was agonisingly painful for the participants. A well-known doctor known as the Angel Of Death; Josef Mengele was a doctor who loved working on twins. Mengele was given absolute freedom to conduct his experiments on the Jewish inmates, who were all slated to die anyway. His grisly experiments were notoriously cruel and callous and utterly inhuman in their scope. He injected dye into the eyeballs of inmates to see if he could change their color. He deliberately infected inmates with horrible diseases to document their progress. He injected substances such as gasoline into the inmate's, condemning them to a painful death, just to watch the process. He liked to experiment on sets of twins and always separated them from the incoming train cars, saving them from immediate death in the gas chambers but keeping them for a fate which was, in some cases, far worse. Moreover, people were made to live in very unpleasant conditions. Prisoners were made to cram in three or four storey bunks and had to shiver on the poorly made wooden