Boot camp

Who was Josef Mengele? Josef Mengele was an SS officer and physician at the famous concentration camp Auschwitz. Mengele is responsible for thousands of murders alone, being a selector (a Nazi who decided which prisoners would be gassed and which prisoners would die by forced labor) and being the physician for the camp. He experimented on prisoners as if they were lifeless human beings, with no remorse. Josef Mengele was born March 16th, 1911 in Günzburg, Germany. In 1935 he earned his Ph.D.…

Auschwitz Concentration camp was a network of German Nazi Concentration camps and extermination camps, built and operated by the first Reich in Polish areas by Nazi Germany during World War II. In September 1939, the town of Oswiecim and its surrounding areas in Poland joined to become Auschwitz. The Auschwitz concentration camp was one of the worst holocaust camps ever, where over one million prisoners experienced brutal living conditions, execution or were used for medical experiments.…

that the two excerpts and the poem have in common. They all have first hand account (their when it first happened). In Milkweed they author states “ I gasped aloud: Jackboots!. “They were magnificent. There were men attached to them but it was if the boots were wearing the men.” In Milkweed MIsha physically saw the Jackboots were interacting with the Jackboots. From, “Until Then I Had Only Read about These Thing in Books” the author states “We could not make a sound, and all we would hear was…

Daily Life in concentration camps was terrifying and draining emotionally and physically to the prisoners. The prisoners were always fearful of unnecessary beating and lashes from whips. The Nazi’s changed every person so that they could no longer feel or have emotions. The Nazi’s forced the prisoners to do unnecessary work in terrible conditions. Daily life in the Concentration Camps can be described as absolutely terrifying. The able-bodied prisoners worked in the slave labor complex. To…

The amount of light that came through showed how the were stuck in the same cycle and did not have a way out. The less light that came, the less free the person was, making them trapped. The uncertainty of the camp came with “prisoners were not allowed to carry watches”(21). This made sure that the men did not comprehend when and where they were and at what hour, making them do more service. The benefits came to the higher power considering that they ended up…

account of a Jewish man’s experience in a Nazi death camp. Primo Levi, the author and main character, wrote the book as part of his therapy for the trauma he experienced from being in Auschwitz. The memoir begins with Levi describing his living in the mountains as part of a group that hoped to join the resistance movement preceding his capture by the Nazis and imprisonment in a detention camp. Following this he and the other Jewish people in the camp are brought to Auschwitz, where they remain…

My first taste of Auschwitz began in the snow. While walking in with My umbrella, receiving the cold, icy breathe of the wind through my millions of layers, hearing nothing but the sound of my boots walking on the stones beneath my feet and seeing hundreds of buildings made of brick aligned in perfectly symmetrical blocks, with muddy, stoned pathways separating them, surrounded by double barbed wire and a wooden watchtower on every side. Once arriving at the Warsaw Chopin Airport, my nerves…

consent violating basic human right. The purpose for the test was to find a tasteless and odorless chemical that couldn't be detected. That's not the only time humans were given poisons for experiments 17-year-olds and 18-year-old were brought to Boot Camp and ask if they want to help with the war only once they reach this experiment centers they were told…

Some of the camps, like the one where Elie was, were work camps. These men had to work everyday, but it wasn’t owning a shop or anything of that sort. Elie explains his work, “Sitting on the ground, we counted bolts, bulbs, and various small electrical parts” (Wiesel 50). That isn’t a very…

come out sane or think rationally due in part to the characters’ resilience or cunning nature. Concentration camps in Europe during World War II were a land of uncertainty for those detained there. They could be alive for an hour and dead the next; harsh weather, disease, lack of food/bedding and clothes, as well as merciless Wehrmachte [Schutzstaffel] (officers/guards of the concentration camps) all attributed to making their environment a living hell, but arguably the worst offender was –…