Explain What Role Did Dachau Play For The Nazi's Plans
1. What role did Dachau play for the Nazi's plans? Why is it important?
The Dachau concentration camp was created in March 1933. This camp was the first typical concentration camp that was established by the Nazi government. Heinrich Himmler, the police president of Munich, had described the camp as “the first concentration camp for political prisoners.” Dachau then become a very useful training area for the SS soldiers at the camp; the SS learned to visualize those with different convictions as inferior, or sub-human, such as a religion or a disabled person, and how to deal with the prisoners accordingly, plus, to not hesitate to kill when the need arose.
2. Who was sent to Dachau?
In the beginning, the people sent to Dachau camp were mostly …show more content…
They were the realm of Doctor Rascher. So many atrocities were committed here that surpassed all of the other cruelties that were carried out within the German concentration camps. The SS doctors committed them on defenseless prisoners, abused them, and used them for torturous medical experiments, and eventually killed them. In Dachau, some prisoners were put into icy water until the froze, normally for hours on end so that they could find the average time that would elapse when there was no point to look for the men that had parachuted into the English Channel after being shot down. There were bone transplants, phlegmon, and hyperthermia experiments that got carried out in these barracks, that would end in complete agony after absolute horrific …show more content…
Describe the three different sections of Auschwitz. Write at least one paragraph on each section.
In Auschwitz, the smallest part of the camp was the one that held the commandant’s office and barracks, the administration building, or the “death block,” the prisoner’s kitchens and infirmary, the main guard station, the crematorium, gassing chambers, Gestapo camp, and the large mass gallows.
The second section was surrounded by double barbed wire, electric fences, and nine large watchtowers. The “death block” housed the criminals in the camp. The barracks in this section of the camp had the “court rooms” where the victim would have been tortured to the point of confession, unfairly tried, and eventually sentenced to death. The firing wall was located at the side of the block and was the area for applying the sentences by lining up the prisoners against the wall and shooting them one by one.
Their bodies were then put into gravel pits that were in and around the main
The Dachau concentration camp was created in March 1933. This camp was the first typical concentration camp that was established by the Nazi government. Heinrich Himmler, the police president of Munich, had described the camp as “the first concentration camp for political prisoners.” Dachau then become a very useful training area for the SS soldiers at the camp; the SS learned to visualize those with different convictions as inferior, or sub-human, such as a religion or a disabled person, and how to deal with the prisoners accordingly, plus, to not hesitate to kill when the need arose.
2. Who was sent to Dachau?
In the beginning, the people sent to Dachau camp were mostly …show more content…
They were the realm of Doctor Rascher. So many atrocities were committed here that surpassed all of the other cruelties that were carried out within the German concentration camps. The SS doctors committed them on defenseless prisoners, abused them, and used them for torturous medical experiments, and eventually killed them. In Dachau, some prisoners were put into icy water until the froze, normally for hours on end so that they could find the average time that would elapse when there was no point to look for the men that had parachuted into the English Channel after being shot down. There were bone transplants, phlegmon, and hyperthermia experiments that got carried out in these barracks, that would end in complete agony after absolute horrific …show more content…
Describe the three different sections of Auschwitz. Write at least one paragraph on each section.
In Auschwitz, the smallest part of the camp was the one that held the commandant’s office and barracks, the administration building, or the “death block,” the prisoner’s kitchens and infirmary, the main guard station, the crematorium, gassing chambers, Gestapo camp, and the large mass gallows.
The second section was surrounded by double barbed wire, electric fences, and nine large watchtowers. The “death block” housed the criminals in the camp. The barracks in this section of the camp had the “court rooms” where the victim would have been tortured to the point of confession, unfairly tried, and eventually sentenced to death. The firing wall was located at the side of the block and was the area for applying the sentences by lining up the prisoners against the wall and shooting them one by one.
Their bodies were then put into gravel pits that were in and around the main