The Nazis were ordered to shoot whoever could not keep up and so they did, shooting hundreds of prisoners who were left in the dust exhausted and…
The Nazis started up many extermination camps in Poland where people would be sent just to be killed. Here they used poison gas chambers to kill all of them. In just the year of 1942, they killed around 2.7 million jews, which happened to be the most intense year of killing during that time. These facts should be surprising to you and all of the terrible things they did to Jews during this time. (BBC News and Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution).…
Some of the cruel acts that the Nazi Party did to the Jewish people were throwing innocent people to the fire, sending them to gas chambers, and starving them to death. These cruel events by the Nazi Party, lead to horrors to innocent…
The reason the Holocaust began was because when Hitler (I’ll talk about him later) came to power of Germany on January 30, 1933, he wanted to get rid of the Jewish people, so he and the Nazis started the assault against the Jews. It began on April 11, when they started boycotting the Jewish businesses. One week later, the Nazis dismissed Jewish people from civil services. By the end of the month, Jews were not allowed at German schools. On May 10, thousands of Nazi students and professors stormed throughout university libraries and bookstores in thirty cities throughout Germany throwing tens of thousands of books written by non-Aryans and people who were against Nazi ideas.…
Concentration camps were more brutal than the Japanese-American Internment camps. In the concentration camps, Jews were not only treated awfully but were also killed. In concentration camps numerous amounts of people were disturbed by seeing people getting killed right in front of them. Jewish people in WWII were sent to concentration camps because they were blamed for many things; such as, loss of WWI. When Hitler’s power became stronger, his followers wanted the removal of Jewish people, so they took them to Concentration camps.…
Question 1 The holocaust began on January 30, 1933 –and went through to May 8, 1945. The word Holocaust means “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war”. The Holocaust is the genocide of Jewish people throughout World War 2. There are some other meanings like: killing of Romani gypsies, homosexuals, Soviet Prisoners Of War (POWs) and civilians.…
These Concentration Camps were located in Germany and held a uncountable amount of Jews hostile. In these camps, they were under a great amount of forced labor such as working in extractive industries, such as stone quarries and coal mines, and doing construction labor. As World War II began the camps got worse, even though it was important for Hitler to have people for labor, he continued killing Jews in mass quantities thus resulting in high mortality rates. Not only did Hitler target Jews, he also…
The prisoners of the war were treated horribly, and forced to change the way they were living before they were captured by German forces, on their way to concentration camps, upon arrival to the camps, and during their time spent trapped…
Summary: This source talks about the Nazi mass murder. Concentration camps originally imprisoned political opponents. Later as the racial enemies (supremacists) grew, Jews also became a part of the imprisonment population in the concentration camps. There were also death camps (six in total) and their main goal was to kill as much Jews as possible. These six places will forever be a memory of the Holocaust.…
Any children who were too young or weak to do anything were sent to be terminated either with injections that were too powerful for a young body to handle and were starved till they died. When the children would pass ,they would scorch their bodies in big ovens and thrown into piles like a waste. Nazis would use young babies who had no idea what was going on as gun targets to practice their shooting, they would throw them into the air as high as they could and shoot right at them as if they were a doll. Alongside these young, blameless children were the elderly people who didn’t have the strengths the work so they were murdered. They were the most…
People have claimed that Jewish people were different, trying to come up with a reason for the unexplainable tragedy of the Holocaust. Before the Holocaust, Jewish people in Europe led normal lives. Nobody thought of Jews any different than themselves. Judaism was a common religion that had spread throughout Germany, England, and many other countries. When the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), Jews were looked on as disease that could infect and kill the party.…
Dayton Flack Mr. Baxter 1st Hour 3/2/17 Concentration Camps Concentration camps were a physiological distraught to the people who lived in them and also the people who were involved with running the camps, Even though People believed that this was a steady environment for the people living there and needed rehabilitation to be "cured." , The Nazis killed over 6 million people. Auschwitz was the most popular concentration camp. Over 1 million Jews were killed in Auschwitz.…
The Treatment of Jews in Concentration Camps Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to have been a Jew during the reigning time of Adolf Hitler? A time of concentration camps, captivity sites and mass murders. All across Europe thousands upon thousands were held captive. Jews weren’t the only ones put in the camps but they were the core of them that were singled-out. These concentration camps took such a toll on those people and that country.…
The Holocaust, which was the systematic persecution and murder of over six million Jews during World War II, is often cited as one of the worst atrocities committed in the history of human civilization. People speak of it in hushed, mournful voices as they wonder at how the German Nazis could be so malevolent as to annihilate a whole generation of Jews. Hundreds of eminent scholars have eloquently explained the horrific nature of the Holocaust and its effects on the modern world (Gerstenfeld). Yet, it can be said that emphasis should be placed on understanding why Adolf Hitler decided to exterminate so many Jews. Only by looking through the perspective of the Nazis can one begin to understand that the Nazi Party and its leader, Hitler, brutally…
There was an extermination camp at Birkenau, a slave-labor camp called Buna, and a prisoner camp for political prisoners. At the extermination camps the Nazi would torture and kill the Jews by…