Internment Camps vs. Concentration Camps There were two types of camps during WWII‚ internment camps and concentration camps. They each were created in a different place‚ the United States‚ and Europe. They have many differences‚ but also some similarities. Internment camps were created in the United States. They were created for the purpose of containing Japanese-Americans. The United States became fearful after Pearl Harbor got attacked by Japan‚ so they created these camps. The camps were like
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searches for meaning part one “Experiences in a Concentration Camp” basically tries to explain the experience of the author in the various concentration camps. In the book‚ the author Frankl makes observations about the camp that is the three main phases a prisoner experiences each of which has its own symptoms. The first phase is the admission into the camp where it is categorized by the shock. The second phase is when the prisoners are fortified in the camp life‚ here they become detached and the last
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Medical Conditions of Concentration Camps The medical conditions in concentration camps were very horrable. Many things happened to the prisoners at this camp and most of the worst things happened because of the medical treatments. Throughout all the camps medical experiments were performed on the prisoners. They were not only performed on the jewish but on all different kinds of people that were at the camps. The experiments were for the most part either harsh or deadly. Some of the experiments
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were prisons called Concentration Camps. These prisons were very brutal‚ well organized‚ and there were different types of camps. First‚ these Concentration Camps were very brutal. Some examples of brutality are “when a person is captured they were beaten‚ tortured‚ starved‚ murdered by being worked to death‚ and by being put in gas chambers or large furnaces. A result of these actions 100 people died daily at the camps” (The Concentration Camps). The point of these “camps” was to kill and get
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Belzec Concentration Camp: Belzec was an extermination camp located in Southeastern Poland on the Lubin-Lvov railway line (“Belzec Death Camp” par. 1). The camp was built on November 1st‚ 1941 by the Germans for the sole purpose of slaughtering minority groups (“Belzec Concentration Camp: History & Overview” par. 1). The Jewish Virtual Library estimates that between 500‚000-600‚000 Jews were incarcerated and killed at Belzec (par. 1). The mass murders were executed with carbon monoxide gas that
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The Chelmno concentration camp was used as an extermination camp during the Holocaust. It was known by the Germans as Kulmhof concentration camp. This camp operated in two periods during the war; from December 8th‚ 1941 to March 1943‚ and from June 1944 to January 18th‚ 1945. The first period was open during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust known as Aktion Reinhard and the second period was open during the Soviet counteroffensive. This camp was specifically built to exterminate Polish Jews
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power and only getting more powerful. In the year 1933 Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. In 1934 Hitler gained the presidency of Germany. (28 Wood Angela) Immediately as Hitler gained total power of Germany concentration camps in Germany had been starting up. Concentration camps have already been starting to grow throughout Europe within the first year that Hitler was their. Adolf Hitler has became chancellor of Germany‚ the date was January 30th 1933. (28 Wood Angela) Hitler had been going
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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp entrance. This picture basically sums up my grey and gloomy experience. Before going into the camp‚ I was ready to take a lot of pictures and go into this camp with an open-mind‚ instead of thinking about how many human-beings were tortured and killed. I had a feeling the tour of the camp and the atmosphere would feel creepy and sad‚ but it was not necessarily creepy‚ just mainly unreal that the Holocaust really happened and this was the actual camp that kept so many
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Concentration camps were places of death and hard labor for Jews. The Nazis controlled these camps‚ by dividing Jews in different camps and sections. Jews had to be creative to avoid getting caught by the Germans. First off the concentration camps were horrific places in which many Jews were put to death. Second‚ Hitler was the one who got Germans to abuse the Jews to death‚ and last; after death the Jews were still misused by the German police and Hitler. The things about the Holocaust that
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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
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