A Time of Sorrow
The Holocaust was a time of evil in the European countries. Millions of innocent people were killed in death camps by brutal torture treatments. Despite the Nazi-stricken continent, heroism and courage could still be found in many people. Between the years of 1939 and 1945, evil was clearly portrayed in the European countries when over four million innocent Jews were executed in concentration and death camps. The horror began when Adolf Hitler was put into power in 1933. In the beginning of Hitler’s reign of Germany, the concentration camps weren’t built primarily for Jews. Instead, they were built for any individual who opposed Hitler and his insane and purely evil acts (Byers, 21). Hitler wasn’t shy about showing his anti-Semitism; …show more content…
The Germans tried to deceive the Jews, making them think they were entering a labor camp rather than an extermination camp. One death camp, Belzec, even made their platform look like a normal train station with flowers. Another camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, had an orchestra to perform welcoming music. Even with that, the people who arrived knew something was terribly wrong. The orchestra members were skin and bones, and often wore clothing that looked like pajamas. Ambulances would pull up to the train, and told the Jews they were there to transport the sick. The truth of the matter was they were transporting them to the gas chambers (21). In the early months of the death camps, all the children and women were taken to the gas chambers. Later, the German soldiers began to spare a select number of women to work as maids. Even after that decision, any women with small children were taken directly to the gas chambers. Before rooms were built for the Jews to undress, they were forced to undress and walk on naked on their path to death. The pain they experienced in the chambers was excruciating. Claw marks were often found on the corpses, showing signs of people desperately clinging to their lives. The misery normally lasted twenty minutes
The Holocaust was a time of evil in the European countries. Millions of innocent people were killed in death camps by brutal torture treatments. Despite the Nazi-stricken continent, heroism and courage could still be found in many people. Between the years of 1939 and 1945, evil was clearly portrayed in the European countries when over four million innocent Jews were executed in concentration and death camps. The horror began when Adolf Hitler was put into power in 1933. In the beginning of Hitler’s reign of Germany, the concentration camps weren’t built primarily for Jews. Instead, they were built for any individual who opposed Hitler and his insane and purely evil acts (Byers, 21). Hitler wasn’t shy about showing his anti-Semitism; …show more content…
The Germans tried to deceive the Jews, making them think they were entering a labor camp rather than an extermination camp. One death camp, Belzec, even made their platform look like a normal train station with flowers. Another camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, had an orchestra to perform welcoming music. Even with that, the people who arrived knew something was terribly wrong. The orchestra members were skin and bones, and often wore clothing that looked like pajamas. Ambulances would pull up to the train, and told the Jews they were there to transport the sick. The truth of the matter was they were transporting them to the gas chambers (21). In the early months of the death camps, all the children and women were taken to the gas chambers. Later, the German soldiers began to spare a select number of women to work as maids. Even after that decision, any women with small children were taken directly to the gas chambers. Before rooms were built for the Jews to undress, they were forced to undress and walk on naked on their path to death. The pain they experienced in the chambers was excruciating. Claw marks were often found on the corpses, showing signs of people desperately clinging to their lives. The misery normally lasted twenty minutes