The Importance Of Concentration Camps During World War II

Method To Their Madness During World War II, German forces were moving towards achieving their goal of one, pure, Germanic race. In this process, they took on one of the largest impure groups in their eyes; the Jewish population. While other groups were also being persecuted, the Jewish population was amongst the largest threats to the Germans. The German forces, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, employed a strategy which included the creation of concentration camps, as part of the final solution, to contain the Jewish, and other impure races, and keep them under control. The concentration camps were brutal,serg two purposes; they were used as tough labor camps as well as death camps. Concentration camps were cruel and unusual places that the world seemed to overlook. One of the largest camps was Auschwitz, located in Poland, where prisoners went through the selection process, endless hours of hard labor, and eventually experienced a lethal form of torture. The selection process was seen as the most basic part of life at the concentration camps. Upon arrival, the prisoners would be divided by gender and then lined up single file. “At a certain moment they moved among us, and in a subdued tone of voice, with faces of stone, began to interrogate us rapidly, one …show more content…
While Auschwitz is the one of the largest concentration camps to have been created, all of the camps were known for their harsh conditions and tedious work. The life of a concentration camp prisoner was truly no life at