In March 1933, one of the most gruesome events started in Germany. Hitler was established as chancellor and came into complete power. After that had happened, everything began to change. Hitler disliked like the Jews. He never …show more content…
Many innocent women, men, and children were murdered all because they were not considered human beings or have the same beliefs as the Nazi’s. Afterwards, the Nazi’s started to kill off the Jews.
There were several different concentration camps created between the 1930s and 1940s. Hitler’s main goal was to capture all of the Jews and assassinate them. He did not want any Jews to come out breathing after everything he planned to do. The Jews were most likely thinking that exact same thing. Hitler made thousands of camps all over Germany, stating that one was not enough. The first camp that he had ever established was called the Dachau.
“The Dachau concentration camp was established in March 1933. It was the first regular concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government. Heinrich Himmler, as a police present of Munich, officially described the camp as ‘the first concentration camp for political prisoners’” (United States Holocaust Memorial …show more content…
Some days they were forced to run from camp to camp. Think about it. There are people all different ages and sizes running, trying to keep ahead of the men in the back holding guns, ready to fire if any of them fall behind. These men make them run for hours, not caring what kind of weather conditions are occurring. Abounding amount of men did die from the gas chambers or died from what the Nazi’s had plan for them, but also died from other causes. One reason the Jews died was of starvation. They were only given around one-thousand and three hundred calories per day with only soup and bread. This was not enough to keep them strong and healthy especially when they were forced to work over ten hours a day, every single day that they lived. Either they died from starvation, or they became too weak to do their daily chores and one of the soldiers shot them for not keeping up with the other