Nazi concentration camps were one of the most brutal and horrific torture methods in human history. Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison their victims. (Nazi Camps - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) There were many types of camps, including labor camps, transit camps, and killing centers that were designed for mass murder. Over 6 million people died, mostly Jews, but there were also Social Democrats, asocials, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler became chancellor in January 1933. In the weeks after the Nazis came to power, The SA (commonly known as Storm Troopers), or the elite guard of the Nazi party, the police, and local authorities organized numerous camps to imprison political opponents of Nazi policy. (Concentration Camps, 1933–1939.)
Germany began establishing camps everywhere. The larger camps being in Oranienburg, north of Berlin; Esterwegen, near Hamburg, Dachau, northwest of Munich; and Lichtenburg, in Saxony.There were three basic types of camps. The first was transit camps, where people went for temporary stays before they went to another camp. (The Holocaust Explained.") The second type is forced Labor and prisoners of war camps. Thousands died from starvation and exhaustion. In some camps, …show more content…
They were what the Nazi’s called “The Final Solution”, designed to kill the Jewish people and other races of people the Nazi’s did not see fit. One of the most brutal killing methods used were the gas chambers that filled the room with poisonous gas to increase killing efficiency. People were told that they were going to be sanitized, with the rooms furnished with fake showerheads. Then, the doors were shut and locked. During the height of killing center use, over 6 thousand jews died a day, only a small fraction imprisoned in these camps survived. (Killing Centers: An
The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler became chancellor in January 1933. In the weeks after the Nazis came to power, The SA (commonly known as Storm Troopers), or the elite guard of the Nazi party, the police, and local authorities organized numerous camps to imprison political opponents of Nazi policy. (Concentration Camps, 1933–1939.)
Germany began establishing camps everywhere. The larger camps being in Oranienburg, north of Berlin; Esterwegen, near Hamburg, Dachau, northwest of Munich; and Lichtenburg, in Saxony.There were three basic types of camps. The first was transit camps, where people went for temporary stays before they went to another camp. (The Holocaust Explained.") The second type is forced Labor and prisoners of war camps. Thousands died from starvation and exhaustion. In some camps, …show more content…
They were what the Nazi’s called “The Final Solution”, designed to kill the Jewish people and other races of people the Nazi’s did not see fit. One of the most brutal killing methods used were the gas chambers that filled the room with poisonous gas to increase killing efficiency. People were told that they were going to be sanitized, with the rooms furnished with fake showerheads. Then, the doors were shut and locked. During the height of killing center use, over 6 thousand jews died a day, only a small fraction imprisoned in these camps survived. (Killing Centers: An