through 1945 a total of some 3.5 million Jews met their deaths in Nazi extermination camps. These "death camps" as they are often referred to had the single goal of eliminating the Jews while hiding these crimes under a shroud from the rest of the world. Unlike the "concentration camps" of the same time‚ where Jews were brainwashed and ordered to do labor for the Germans yet still often killed‚ the death camps were devised solely for the mass killings of prisoners. There was no discrimination
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Auschwitz is known to be the largest and deadliest of the correction camps during WWII. Many atrocities occurred there that disturbs us even today. It has an extensive history that explains why it was used and how it functioned at the tome were the systematic killing of people was necessary or the Nazis to conquer the nation. Auschwitz was the largest and most deadly of all correction camps during WWII and lives on through infamy through how it was conceived and the reason it came to be‚ its use
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Belzec Execution Camp “I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I can’t feel it. I believe in god even when he is silent.” was written on a wall during the Holocaust (pinterest). Belzec‚ a concentration camp located in Poland‚ was the second camp built and it was one of the biggest camps out off all of them. The Belzec camp was the second camp made and it was a death camp and many people died there each day. The most important things are is how the people were
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United States internment camps were extremely overcrowded and provided very poor living conditions. According to the reports published by the War Relocation Authority‚ the administering agency in 1943‚ Japanese Americans were housed in tar paper covered barracks with guard towers and barbed wire fences for boundary. Moreover‚ not only were these boundaries just boundaries. They were guarded by military police with rifles‚ and numerous Japanese Americans in these internment camps were killed by the military
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Exploring Camp Terezin Sorrow‚ despondency‚ death. These are only a few words to describe the feelings that Jews would experience while living in concentration camps. It’s said that there were more than 40‚000 Jewish concentration camps in total‚ and with that many‚ a lot of people tend to forget about the smaller ones and focus on the more ‘brutal’ and ‘larger’ ones such as Auschwitz and Treblinka. But what people seem to not realize is that smaller concentration camps can be just has horrid as
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Naples’ Prisoners of War Camp Conditions There were 700 POW camps in the United States during World War II. One of these POW camps was in Naples‚ New York. This camp was very well kept and prisoners were treated fairly. The prisoners worked and got paid daily in the POW camp in Naples. The prisoners had to work ten hours per day and they were paid $.80 a day. They were handed a check when they left and the war was ended. The prisoners were put in work teams‚ some worked in the vineyards. Other pressed
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inside its walls? Auschwitz-Birkenau was a concentration camp constructed for labor‚ punishing the prisoners inside‚ and making life difficult for the Jewish people of the camp. This concentration camp was constructed for prisoner labor. During the fall of 1941‚ Heinrich Himmler ordered SS commissioner‚ Odilo Globocnik‚ who was occupied at Poland during the time‚ to construct labor and death camps around the area. Auschwitz was one of these six death camps. On February 21‚ 1942‚ Auschwitz was officially
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Jasenovac Extermination Camp. Extermination camps were camps developed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust‚ In order to kill millions of people by execution‚ generally by gassing and torture. Jasenovac was Croatia’s largest Extermination camp and by far the worst‚ It had a network of several sub-camps and Its main victims included Serbs‚ Romas‚ Croat partisans and Jews. Jasenovac was well know for its extreme cruelty in which its victims were tortured and killed. Jasenovac was located on 220
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A concentration camp is where people got captured and taken to. These people get taken by the Nazis and go to a camp. In these camps some torched‚ beaten‚ some have a disease. This was a place for punishment. Hitler got a group of people called the nazis and rounded up millions of people to tourche in these concentration camps. Concentration camps are a brutal place. Over 40‚000 men‚ women‚ babies‚ kids people of all sorts got taken. Some people tried to hide out but it didn’t really work out for
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worst thing about the Holocaust was the concentration camps‚ and the propaganda that was made to be used against the Jews. The concentration camps were brutal and the Nazis treated the prisoners inhumanly and with no respect. There were four different types of camps during The Holocaust; Concentration Camps‚ Transit Camps‚ Work/Labor Camps‚ and Extermination Camps. Although they were not useful all of the camps had their own purpose. The Concentration camps are a place where people are kept or confined
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