From 1933 until 1945, Nazi established many concentration camps and incarceration camps. As many as 40,000 camps and incarceration camps were thought to have been established. One concentration camp that had killed over one million jews was Auschwitz.
Auschwitz was established in the autumn of 1941, and was the biggest concentration camp of its kind. Auschwitz was the fourth biggest concentration camp. It had three sub camps; Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. First off, Auschwitz I was used mainly as a death camp for Jews and other “enemies of the state”. Secondly, Auschwitz II was used as a death camp and also a working camp. Lastly, Auschwitz III was used as a working camp. Many people who were sent to Auschwitz were brutally killed. An estimated 1.3 million Jews were sent to Auschwitz and about 1.1 million died or were killed. Many people were killed by forced labor, by the built in gas chambers, or starvation. Everybody who was sent to the concentration camps were forced to do a lot of hard work, including some unnecessary things like drag boulders to one side of the road and bring it back. People who were too old, too young, or too sick, were …show more content…
According to, “The Holocaust Explained: Living Conditions and Sanitation” “The wooden barracks had once been stables. The walls were thin and had gaps at the bottom and top, which let in the bitterly cold wind in the winter”. Besides freezing to death, people there also were crammed into tiny, crowded rooms, with about three people in each space, their beds were directly side by side. Their beds were made out of straw and sometimes the prisoners would have rags for their beds. They also were not able to keep themselves clean for the first two years of the camps existence, because they were not allowed to get to water. Later when there was water, it was not clean. So the people there were always dirty making them susceptible to many
Auschwitz was established in the autumn of 1941, and was the biggest concentration camp of its kind. Auschwitz was the fourth biggest concentration camp. It had three sub camps; Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. First off, Auschwitz I was used mainly as a death camp for Jews and other “enemies of the state”. Secondly, Auschwitz II was used as a death camp and also a working camp. Lastly, Auschwitz III was used as a working camp. Many people who were sent to Auschwitz were brutally killed. An estimated 1.3 million Jews were sent to Auschwitz and about 1.1 million died or were killed. Many people were killed by forced labor, by the built in gas chambers, or starvation. Everybody who was sent to the concentration camps were forced to do a lot of hard work, including some unnecessary things like drag boulders to one side of the road and bring it back. People who were too old, too young, or too sick, were …show more content…
According to, “The Holocaust Explained: Living Conditions and Sanitation” “The wooden barracks had once been stables. The walls were thin and had gaps at the bottom and top, which let in the bitterly cold wind in the winter”. Besides freezing to death, people there also were crammed into tiny, crowded rooms, with about three people in each space, their beds were directly side by side. Their beds were made out of straw and sometimes the prisoners would have rags for their beds. They also were not able to keep themselves clean for the first two years of the camps existence, because they were not allowed to get to water. Later when there was water, it was not clean. So the people there were always dirty making them susceptible to many