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    About 1.1 million prisoners were killed‚ only 90% were Jews (USHMC 2). This is what went on in Auschwitz from when the prisoners entered to when the prisoners left. Auschwitz Concentration Camp was opened in 1940 (ABEC 15). This camp was located in Poland (USHMC 26). As you entered this camp a sign that stated “Work Will Set You Free” was up to deceive the prisoners (ABEC 18). The prisoners thought if they worked‚ they would be set free. Auschwitz was originally used for army barracks (USHMC

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    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 in and

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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 people

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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 Germany

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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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    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 rid of

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    Nazi Death Camp in 1942. Firstly‚ until mid-1943‚ the main death camps were camps similar to Sobibor‚ Belzec‚ and Treblinka. However‚ when all of the ‘non desirables’ had been liquidated‚ these camps shut down. Death camps were only meant to be a temporary place‚ and once their job was completed‚ they would quickly be dismantled. Auschwitz was different. It incorporated a Labour camp – so was designed for a much longer use than its’ contenders. The fact that it was one of the few camps that wasn’t

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    concentration camp during the holocaust. It was not cool. People died. Yup. Sucks doesn’t it? MmmmHmmm. Well I’m bored. Got to finish this paper though. So I’ll keep writing. About Buchenwald. And stuff relating to……Buchenwald. There was some stuff that happened at Buchenwald. But I can’t remember anything about it. I did some research and now I have some info on the topic. With all of its outercamps‚ Buchenwald was one of the biggest concentration camps inside the German borders. The camp was built

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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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    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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