Jews in concentration camps were subject to appalling dehumanization while imprisoned. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel offers his testimony of the way Auschwitz captives were treated. German forces dehumanized Jews by stripping them of their identities, transporting them in cattle cars, and treating them as animals to harass for their own enjoyment. The SS rarely referred to the Jews as men. They tattooed each prisoner with a number for identification.…
The Eastern State Penitentiary is a prison located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that has long been seen as haunted. The Eastern State Penitentiary is well known for its long and brutal history. The paranormal activity is also a very big factor why this prison is so well known. Also the attractions and publicity that they have gotten from various television shows and the attractions that they provide at the prison.…
In both world wars, Australians became prisoners to the Germans and their allies. The Turco-German alliance of the First World War meant that the Ottoman Empire supported the German war effort. Members of the Australian Flying Corps, sailors of the AE2 submarine and soldiers in trenches were captured in the Dardanelles campaign in Gallipoli. But majority of the prisoners under Turkish captivity were light horsemen; captured in areas such as Egypt and Sinai-Palestine where fighting was more mobile. In total, the Turkish captured 232 Australians.…
There were many camps; death, concentration, extermination, labor, prisoner-of-war, and transit camps. The prisoners would try to escape and even bribe their way out because the conditions they were living in were very bad. Prisoners would be transported to the camps in cattle cars, which were dark, closed off, had barely any space, and didn’t have proper…
Communities formed and children were born and raised at the prison. The debtors were at the mercy of the keeper and they were beaten and tortured as often as the keeper pleased. There were no laws banning this practice and thousands of debtors died as a result of such inhumane treatment. Conditions were horrific and filthy.…
The idea of concentration camps brings up a dark time in German history where anyone one repetition who went against the Nazi regime were forced to go into these camps where they would be gassed, injected with toxins, or starved to…
The Treatment of Prisoners of War At one time the United States was home to 371 thousand German Prisoners of War. These prisoners were living in the 650 camps in the United States along with other ethnic enemy soldiers from World War II. With the growing amount of enemies within the mercy of the American soldiers, government and citizens the question is posed, how should you treat a prisoner of war from an enemy country? Even though Germany broke the Geneva Convention, America did the right thing by upholding it even though citizens disagreed. War had broken out around the world, and the United States had just entered the fight.…
The jews didn’t get lots of food, they were very weak and ill but yet the Germans didn’t care those were their inhumane ways. Eliezer was getting beat in the concentration camps,” He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head... ( Wiesel 53)” That’s degrading and somewhat torture towards a person. When prisoners were marching they also got beat out of nowhere.…
The prisoners of the war were treated horribly, and forced to change the way they were living before they were captured by German forces, on their way to concentration camps, upon arrival to the camps, and during their time spent trapped…
The living conditions in Auschwitz were very unsanitary for prisoners. Furthermore, prisoners usually slept in brick barracks that were located inside Auschwitz. In each old, brick barrack were several hundred three-tier wooden bunk beds that prisoners lived in (“Living Conditions, Labor & Executions”). Each bunk bed contained 5 or 6 inmates. The barracks also had thin walls with no windows.…
Dehumanization Among Prisoners When considering the indescribable events that took place during World War II, often times people conclude that the guards of the concentration camps were the only ones who dealt out the inexplicable cruelty to the innocent Jewish prisoners of World War II. This statement later proves to be completely fictional. Elie Wiesel, writer of the memoir, Night describes the unthinkable injustice dealt to the prisoners by the German officers, but also the inconceivable: the dehumanization of prisoners by other prisoners. In his memoir, Wiesel goes beyond explaining the horrors of Hitler and the Nazi regime, but further explains how the prisoners and victims did nothing to rebel or perhaps even stay united as prisoners.…
The Nazis did not think of the Jews as human so they were not provided with what a human needs to stay healthy or at least to survive. The victims in the camps were overworked and not given enough rest time, which resulted in exhaustion and even death by exhaustion. Life in the camps was brutal but straightforward, work until death. As the SS officer informed the Jews upon their arrival “ ‘you are in Auschwitz…It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work.’…
¨The Nazi concentration camps is a world turned upside down, a world in which nothing makes sense and nothing is as it should be ¨ (Sanderson). The amount of abhorrent things that were done to the Jews at camp were not okay in any type of way. At this time Jews were desperate for survival they would do anything to live or in some cases anything to die. Concentration camps got so horrid at times that Jews would rather be dead than living in one. ¨ Food and survival supersede everything else for prisoners; previously moral.…
The Holocaust and the atomic bombings were both tragic events in our nation’s history, however I believe that both were equally devastating because many lives were both tortured and lost. Even though lives were both lost and tortured in these tragic events, each event experienced different ways in which it tortured and killed people inhumanely. During the Holocaust the Nazi’s would torture and kill Jews in what were called concentration camps. Auschwitz, one of the biggest concentration camp, which was actually a combination of three different types of camps located in Poland.…
Often tortured and even had experiments tested on them, millions had started to die off. Auschwitz Concentration camp was truly a horrid place on earth where over one million victims experienced life or death situations such as inhumane living conditions, life sentence, or have been used for different experiments. Jewish, Poles, Roma and other nationalities that Germany had despised were sent to spend the rest of their lives in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. After being put in a cattle wagon with no room, the soon to be prisoners three day journey to the Auschwitz…