Concentration Camps In Nazi Germany
The term concentration camp refers to a place in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal normality of arrest and imprisonment that were acceptable in a constitutional democracy. In Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, concentration camps were an integral feature of their government (from the Holocaust Encyclopedia at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The main reason that Hitler and his Nazi Party sent Jewish people to the camps was because they wanted them killed off because they thought that Jews were a danger to society.
The roles of leaders and prisoners within these concentration camps were more complex than one would think; guiding job delegation as they would establish …show more content…
There was a hierarchy of jobs that included local civilian authorizes, Schutzstaffel guards and officers, Sturmabteilungen members, Blockfuerhers and kapos. Local civilian authorities organized the detention camps. SS (Schutzstaffel) guards and officers, the elite head of the Nazi Party, were in charge of giving others jobs. SA (Sturmabteilungen) members were in charge of protecting the Nazi Party. Blockfuerhers had the right to decide whom, within the concentration camps, who would live or die. Kapos were trusted inmates whose job was to supervise their fellow prisoners. They woke the prisoners up and yelled at them when they were not doing what they were supposed to …show more content…
Overall, most of the camps were located in Germany and Poland. All six of the extermination camps were located in Poland. Most forced labor camps were located in Germany, with others. However, there were some forced labor camps in Austria, Latvia, France, and Ukraine. The transit camps where held in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands.
Before prisoners arrived to a concentration camp, they were thrown into a boxcar of a train and were taken to a location where they must shower, get a haircut, have all of their personal belongings taken, and where they receive the uniform they must wear while in concentration camps. After this was done, they were then shoved back into the boxcar and taken to an actual concentration
The roles of leaders and prisoners within these concentration camps were more complex than one would think; guiding job delegation as they would establish …show more content…
There was a hierarchy of jobs that included local civilian authorizes, Schutzstaffel guards and officers, Sturmabteilungen members, Blockfuerhers and kapos. Local civilian authorities organized the detention camps. SS (Schutzstaffel) guards and officers, the elite head of the Nazi Party, were in charge of giving others jobs. SA (Sturmabteilungen) members were in charge of protecting the Nazi Party. Blockfuerhers had the right to decide whom, within the concentration camps, who would live or die. Kapos were trusted inmates whose job was to supervise their fellow prisoners. They woke the prisoners up and yelled at them when they were not doing what they were supposed to …show more content…
Overall, most of the camps were located in Germany and Poland. All six of the extermination camps were located in Poland. Most forced labor camps were located in Germany, with others. However, there were some forced labor camps in Austria, Latvia, France, and Ukraine. The transit camps where held in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands.
Before prisoners arrived to a concentration camp, they were thrown into a boxcar of a train and were taken to a location where they must shower, get a haircut, have all of their personal belongings taken, and where they receive the uniform they must wear while in concentration camps. After this was done, they were then shoved back into the boxcar and taken to an actual concentration