Amanda Miller
October 27, 2014
ENG- 3313-07
Concentration Camps The latest novel read, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen written by a young man, Tadeusz Borowski, about witnessing the heinous events that had occurred in concentration camps in the form of short stories. Concentration camps refers to a place where people were held much like prisoners however, under much harsher conditions that did not follow the norms of imprisonment under the constitutional democracy. After being appointed chancellor, Adolf Hitler started these appalling creations in January 1933. The police and local authorities contributed to the Nazi policy by imprisoning any challengers of the policy (Concentration Camps, 1933-1939). Camps were surrounded by barracks with unescapable barbed wire and watch towers (Holocaust). These camps were located all over Germany. The conditions were treacherous such as the …show more content…
There were two ways that they did this, through gas chambers and gas trucks. For both ways herds of people were marched into a confined area, whether a truck or a chamber and locked in where they would release the gas in with them. The chambers consisted of three sections; the first was an area where the prisoners were told to strip out of their clothes. Next they were led into the second section where their horrid journey held captive was soon to end, leaving the last section for the cremation of all the bodies left lifelessly within chamber section two. These methods of murder were used to cut down numbers by immediately separating the unable to work from the able. Also, this was a way to eliminate most of the Jews before even experiencing an hour with in the camps. Although they allowed the people able to work survive the entrance to these camps they had the terrible fate that they could end up there sooner or later
October 27, 2014
ENG- 3313-07
Concentration Camps The latest novel read, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen written by a young man, Tadeusz Borowski, about witnessing the heinous events that had occurred in concentration camps in the form of short stories. Concentration camps refers to a place where people were held much like prisoners however, under much harsher conditions that did not follow the norms of imprisonment under the constitutional democracy. After being appointed chancellor, Adolf Hitler started these appalling creations in January 1933. The police and local authorities contributed to the Nazi policy by imprisoning any challengers of the policy (Concentration Camps, 1933-1939). Camps were surrounded by barracks with unescapable barbed wire and watch towers (Holocaust). These camps were located all over Germany. The conditions were treacherous such as the …show more content…
There were two ways that they did this, through gas chambers and gas trucks. For both ways herds of people were marched into a confined area, whether a truck or a chamber and locked in where they would release the gas in with them. The chambers consisted of three sections; the first was an area where the prisoners were told to strip out of their clothes. Next they were led into the second section where their horrid journey held captive was soon to end, leaving the last section for the cremation of all the bodies left lifelessly within chamber section two. These methods of murder were used to cut down numbers by immediately separating the unable to work from the able. Also, this was a way to eliminate most of the Jews before even experiencing an hour with in the camps. Although they allowed the people able to work survive the entrance to these camps they had the terrible fate that they could end up there sooner or later