The Importance Of Life In Concentration Camps

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Life in camps.

Imagine people dying in camps. Not camps that you are thinking of, horrible camps where people suffer, in many ways. From not eating and working non stop. All kinds of people. Where they work really hard until death or automatically go into gas chamber and killed.
Concentration camps are horrible places that held lots of innocent people and were killed or worked until death. So as you can tell concentration camps were for the suffering and for death.

Nazis built camps: The nazis built camps with the purpose for killing jews.( concentration camps 1933-1939) Also auschwitz prisoners either were killed or worked until death.(concentration camps 1933-1939) Most or all disabled people were taken into gas chambers and killed because they were no use for the Nazis.(concentration camps 1933-1939) The nazis camps and auschwitz prisoners were taken into gas chambers also and died or worked until death.

Countries with prisoners: during world war 2 United states gov. Imprisoned more than 110,000 japanese americans.(concentration camps) In soviet union, concentration camps were part of the gulag system.(concentration camps) And at least 17 million people were taken into the gulags and killed.(concentration camps) Countries imprisoned people and killed them.

Prisoners of death: millions of people have died in these camps. Some died of , some of
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