Elie Wiesel had once said “Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.” Auschwitz was the camp with the most killed people, but it also had the most survivors because of labor (van Pelt, Auschwitz). Auschwitz, a malefaction against humanity, was the site of many unspeakable horrors that still have an impact on society today.
Auschwitz originally wasn't an extermination camp, but as a matter in fact it was an army barrack in the very beginning. When it became a camp it was meant to be there temporarily (van Pelt, Auschwitz). It was annexed into Nazi Germany in 1939; Auschwitz was made for a place for people to be kept after it was an army barrack and then became a camp because of its location. Germany built Auschwitz’s gas chambers at a place where it would be easier to dispose victims (van Pelt, Auschwitz). It had two bunkers for gassing the unfit and those they didn’t need for labor.
Auschwitz was a deadly place for prisoners and innocent people. Of all of the Jew that went there, 90% of them were …show more content…
Sonderkommando, slaves who kept the death camp running, and Musselman, the “living dead”, were two new human variations that had been created from Auschwitz (van Pelt, Auschwitz). These new human forms came from practices of genocide. Other practices of genocide came after the Holocaust and were using it as an example. Things that are promised may not come true. For example, the sign at Auschwitz says that “work brings freedom” and the only time they got freedom was when the Allies freed them (Robson 10). They kept working and sooner or later die from the gas chamber. Another example would be that in the communist party of China, they said that communism will help them bring more freedom, but all it did was make more restrictions on what they are allowed to do and what they can
Auschwitz originally wasn't an extermination camp, but as a matter in fact it was an army barrack in the very beginning. When it became a camp it was meant to be there temporarily (van Pelt, Auschwitz). It was annexed into Nazi Germany in 1939; Auschwitz was made for a place for people to be kept after it was an army barrack and then became a camp because of its location. Germany built Auschwitz’s gas chambers at a place where it would be easier to dispose victims (van Pelt, Auschwitz). It had two bunkers for gassing the unfit and those they didn’t need for labor.
Auschwitz was a deadly place for prisoners and innocent people. Of all of the Jew that went there, 90% of them were …show more content…
Sonderkommando, slaves who kept the death camp running, and Musselman, the “living dead”, were two new human variations that had been created from Auschwitz (van Pelt, Auschwitz). These new human forms came from practices of genocide. Other practices of genocide came after the Holocaust and were using it as an example. Things that are promised may not come true. For example, the sign at Auschwitz says that “work brings freedom” and the only time they got freedom was when the Allies freed them (Robson 10). They kept working and sooner or later die from the gas chamber. Another example would be that in the communist party of China, they said that communism will help them bring more freedom, but all it did was make more restrictions on what they are allowed to do and what they can