Concentration Camps Brutal

Were Concentration Camps as Brutal as History States?
In history people are taught about war, the great depression, and presidents, but what else do people learn about? People learn about the dark history of the nations past. One of the darkest times happened during the World War II, when Hitler began forming labor camps, which eventually turned into extermination camps, which is also known as, concentration camps. Concentration camps are not just brutal, they were darker than schools made them out to be. There were hundreds of concentration camps, but only a few of them were used to kill, torture, or allowed scientists to use the campers to be used as test subjects. One of the most heard about is Auschwitz, which is the centre of the
Hitler had certain types of people killed or treated differently because he did not like them, he did not think they fit his “perfect type”, which was blonde hair and blue eyes. Auschwitz had more than one camp, there were three camps all together that had the same name of Auschwitz. Downing states, “…the second and largest of the three Auschwitz camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, which had been built specifically to kill Jews” (Auschwitz: The Forgotten Evidence, 26-32). A whole entire camp just for Jews, is that not just a little much? Hitler must have really hated the Jews. But that’s not all Auschwitz-Birkenau had to offer. “Auschwitz: The Forgotten Evidence” informs the reader by stating, “…four large gas chambers and crematoria that were built to exterminate as
All the very young and the old, most of the family groups, the ill and weak, are sent to the left and went straight to the gas chambers…the fittest-looking of the arrivals, were sent to the right where they were tattooed with a number and became inmates of the labour camp” (Downing 26-32).
People were literally treated like cattle, even down to the assigned numbers for identification. Where, and when has this ever been acceptable in human eyes, besides to Hitler, because the thought of taking an adolescent child or an elderly person straight to their death is heart wrenching. All those peoples lives who were taken away so easily need to be remembered, and respected because the way their lives were ended so abruptly. These camps were not short lived either, they lasted for years, and were built to withstand a life time. Auschwitz is so big, that they could kill 12,000 at a time, but still kept it packed tight with people, that’s a lot of people for one camp. Each time new people would come into the camp at least 1.1 million people died within hours of arriving at