Auschwitz: Overview of the Concentration Camp The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler‚ in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race‚ decided that Jews‚ Poles‚ Soviet prisoners of war‚ Roma (Gypsies)‚ and homosexuals amongst others were to be eliminated from the German population. One of his main methods of exterminating these "undesirables" was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941‚ Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided
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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
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“In the concentration camps‚ we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill‚ and the victims came to die” Elie Wiesel. Concentration Camps are specific places in which individuals are detained or confined usually under harsh conditions. They were used to hold political and religious enemies of the Nazi party throughout most of WWII and a majority of the camps were in Poland. They held Jews and various religious groups prisoner. The horrific acts committed
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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
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Being a partisan fighter Ben Kamm and i are just working in a concentration camp and then we get out. This was around 1946. It was in the poland area. We met some people in the camp that we became friends with but we had to leave them behind because we just don’t lie living in these condition. We could have brought him along but he is just too goofy and he would have got us caught. Ben and I hated being in a concentration camp. They made use work so hard. If you were sick they would kill you. If
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Although we cannot compare the horrors of the Nazi Concentration camps to the American "Relocation Centers"‚ there are many similarities. Both of the groups of victims were of the minorities‚ and these cultures were somewhat of an enemy to the leader of their country. These groups (the Japanese in America nearly two thirds of which were American citizens‚ and the Jews‚ Gypsies‚ the Poles‚ Slovaks‚ Communists and other enemies of the state in Germany and Poland‚ many of which had served the very countries
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of the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald is very essential to the story. Wiesel describes these camps with great detail and emotion which got my attention and curiosity. With the research I have collected I learned that Auschwitz and Buchenwald were two major concentration camps to the Nazis in Germany that were mainly for either executing prisoners or forcing them to work in a variety of different fields. These two camps were known more as complexes due to the many sub camps both Auschwitz
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There are numerous concentration camp that were constructed across Nazi Germany from 1939-1945. During this time period‚ Jews‚ gypsies‚ homosexuals‚ and bountiful of others forced by the Nazi regime to these concentration camps. There were countless experiments performed on those who were in certain camps‚ but mostly forced labor to build items for the German army. Of all of these camps one was the most notorious‚ which was Auschwitz concentration camps. This camp was the largest of its kind‚ but
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the novel described life in concentration camps‚ three lines truly portray the feelings‚ emotions and mindset Jews had under the Nazi regime. "Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes..." (Wiesel 34). This line shows the impact concentration camps had on Wiesel’s life‚ soul‚ and belief. As a child‚ Wiesel became Godless for he saw no God of his would allow this massacre to ensue. An impact of the life within camps was that his very soul shattered
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The concentration camps was a place where people were detained and confined. The concentration camps are where they held jewish people against their own will. The concentration camps was where the Germans placed the Jews to hostage before killing them. There are three specific concentration camps that the Jews were sent too. The three concentration camps were the transit camps‚ forced labour or work camps‚ and extermination camps. Adolf Hitler just wanted to prove his power to everyone. The
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