Dayton Flack
Mr. Baxter
1st Hour
3/2/17
Concentration Camps
Concentration camps were a physiological distraught to the people who lived in them and also the people who were involved with running the camps, Even though People believed that this was a steady environment for the people living there and needed rehabilitation to be "cured.", The Nazis killed over 6 million people. Auschwitz was the most popular concentration camp. Over 1 million Jews were killed in Auschwitz. The Nazis killed the Jews out of hate for them. The Jews did nothing to deserve to be killed.
Before the start of WWII, Jews were disliked by many Germans. These types of people were known for being fired from their job for no reason. Others were expelled from schools for …show more content…
It was the the first regular camp which was made by the Nazi party. Heinrich Himmler call it the first camp for political prisoners. This camp was placed near an abandoned factory northeast of Dachau. It was also about ten miles northwest of Munich. When the camp first started out it was filled with about 4,800 prisoners. When the camp first started it was filled with be the Nazi party had believed that they were politically unfit to be there. This included Social Democrats, German Communists, and other political opponents of the Nazi party. They soon started to bring others groups such as homosexuals, Gypsies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. On November 10-11, 1938 over 10,000 Jewish men were placed at Dachau. The camp was put into two different sections. One was the camp area and the crematoria. This also include one area for the Nazi’s to used this area for medical experiments. Hundreds of people died or even incapable of handling life by themselves due to these experiments. The SS that had been staying there or being guards had on their end a kitchen, laundry, showers, workshops, and even a bunker in case of attack. Wrapped around the entire camp was electric barbed was with a ditch and a wall with several towers for the guards to be in at all times in case a prisoner was trying to escape. On April 25, 1945 Dachau was seen by the American forces. At the time there was 67,665 registered prisoners at the camp. …show more content…
The camp was made up into 3 different subcamps, all of which were forced to do manual labor. The camp were located west of Krakow, near the German-Polish border. The first subcamp of Auschwitz I was made in April of 1940 in an old army barracks. SS and police officers forced prisoners into labor to extend the camp and help themselves. In the first year of the camp's existence it covered around 40 square kilometers. The first prisoners of the camp were made up of prisoners from Sachsenhausen, which they were there for criminal crimes, including political prisoners from Dachau. Auschwitz I was the first camp to have a gas chamber and a crematorium. The camp also had medical experiments on infants, twins, dwarfs and practiced castrating adults. The most popular physician was SS Captain Dr. Josef Mengele. Auschwitz II was constructed in October 1941, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp had sections for men, women, and a family camp for gypsies. Auschwitz II also had facilities for a killing center. The was part of the master plan for killing off the Jews. In the summer of 1941, a new type of gas was introduced to the Nazis and starts using it for murder. The SS converted two old farmhouses into gas chambers for them to kill the incarcerated. The SS look over the facilities and said they were too little for the plan they had for the gassing. Four crematoriums were made between March and June of 1943. On October 7, 1944 hundreds
Mr. Baxter
1st Hour
3/2/17
Concentration Camps
Concentration camps were a physiological distraught to the people who lived in them and also the people who were involved with running the camps, Even though People believed that this was a steady environment for the people living there and needed rehabilitation to be "cured.", The Nazis killed over 6 million people. Auschwitz was the most popular concentration camp. Over 1 million Jews were killed in Auschwitz. The Nazis killed the Jews out of hate for them. The Jews did nothing to deserve to be killed.
Before the start of WWII, Jews were disliked by many Germans. These types of people were known for being fired from their job for no reason. Others were expelled from schools for …show more content…
It was the the first regular camp which was made by the Nazi party. Heinrich Himmler call it the first camp for political prisoners. This camp was placed near an abandoned factory northeast of Dachau. It was also about ten miles northwest of Munich. When the camp first started out it was filled with about 4,800 prisoners. When the camp first started it was filled with be the Nazi party had believed that they were politically unfit to be there. This included Social Democrats, German Communists, and other political opponents of the Nazi party. They soon started to bring others groups such as homosexuals, Gypsies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. On November 10-11, 1938 over 10,000 Jewish men were placed at Dachau. The camp was put into two different sections. One was the camp area and the crematoria. This also include one area for the Nazi’s to used this area for medical experiments. Hundreds of people died or even incapable of handling life by themselves due to these experiments. The SS that had been staying there or being guards had on their end a kitchen, laundry, showers, workshops, and even a bunker in case of attack. Wrapped around the entire camp was electric barbed was with a ditch and a wall with several towers for the guards to be in at all times in case a prisoner was trying to escape. On April 25, 1945 Dachau was seen by the American forces. At the time there was 67,665 registered prisoners at the camp. …show more content…
The camp was made up into 3 different subcamps, all of which were forced to do manual labor. The camp were located west of Krakow, near the German-Polish border. The first subcamp of Auschwitz I was made in April of 1940 in an old army barracks. SS and police officers forced prisoners into labor to extend the camp and help themselves. In the first year of the camp's existence it covered around 40 square kilometers. The first prisoners of the camp were made up of prisoners from Sachsenhausen, which they were there for criminal crimes, including political prisoners from Dachau. Auschwitz I was the first camp to have a gas chamber and a crematorium. The camp also had medical experiments on infants, twins, dwarfs and practiced castrating adults. The most popular physician was SS Captain Dr. Josef Mengele. Auschwitz II was constructed in October 1941, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp had sections for men, women, and a family camp for gypsies. Auschwitz II also had facilities for a killing center. The was part of the master plan for killing off the Jews. In the summer of 1941, a new type of gas was introduced to the Nazis and starts using it for murder. The SS converted two old farmhouses into gas chambers for them to kill the incarcerated. The SS look over the facilities and said they were too little for the plan they had for the gassing. Four crematoriums were made between March and June of 1943. On October 7, 1944 hundreds