Concentration

March 20, 1933 Dachau concentration officially opens. Dachau was established 5 weeks after Adolph Hitler became the German Chancellor. Dachau originally housed WW1 munitions factories, but with a new war beginning a need for a camp to house its first 5,000 prisoners took precedence. Its original purpose was to house those that apposed the new regime such as German communist and Social Democrats. Concentration camps are synonymous with horror stories and death. Though Dachau certainly was not…

The Nazis established a concentration camp near the town of Natzweiler, 31 miles south of Strasbourg, on a hill in the Vosges Mountains. Natzweiler-Struthof was one of the smallest concentration camps. It was apparently established after Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect, who had been on an inspection tour of recently occupied France and had noticed that there was granite deposits in the Natzweiler area. The Deutsche Erd-und Steinwerke GmbH AKA “The German Earth and Stone-Works Ltd”,reacted to…

Dachau was the first concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in 1933. It was a labor camp designed to punish political prisoners and enemies of Adolf Hitler. Dachau was a model for how other concentration camps should operate under Nazi Germany. Through intense labor and strict regulations, prisoners were taught to obey authority. Dachau was created to enforce compliance with the Nazi regime. Unlike the death camps that focused on extermination, Dachau was a labor camp where the…

The Concentration Camps run by Nazi’s during World War II were horrific and unimaginable. The people of this world will forever know the conditions, treatments, mass murder, experimentation, and many other factors helping make the concentration camps leave a mark on history that will be forever known by the people of this world. While there are many things that could be covered on this topic, there are three that need to be stressed and understood. These topics are the different types of camps,…

Around 1.3 million people were transported to Auschwitz, while around 1.1 of them died there. (“Auschwitz 2”) Auschwitz was sadly one of the most efficient concentration camps, mainly because of the large amount of Jews killed there, it was located in southern Poland, and started off as a detention center for prisoners. It soon evolved into something much worse, a death camp where men, women, and children were all murdered, usually by gas chambers, burning in the crematoria, or simply by…

Most of loss of life during the Holocaust took place in concentration camps. Concentration camps served different purposes; some camps were slave labor camps, some were transit camps, and others served as death camps. Even though there were many different types of camps, they all had one thing in common. Each camp was intolerably brutal to their innocent prisoners (Bard 15). Buchenwald was one such camp. It was one of the largest concentration camps built within the old German borders.…

Concentration camps In this paper about the Concentration camps in World War II. I will be talking about what the Concentration camps were and what they did. This will be how harsh and bad they were. I hope you learn a lot about the camps in this paper. So what were the Concentration Camps? Well they were Camps for the Jews. Each camp was about 15 miles big but the major ones like Auschwitz was about 37 miles big. Dubuque is about 31 miles big and Auschwitz is 37 miles big. ("Auschwitz."…

Concentration Camps… the place that tore families apart, the place where Nazi’s torchered, ruined, and killed Jewish prisoners. It all started in the month of May 1949. There were 24 concentration camps. Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp, was the worst of them all because of the many gas chambers, poor living conditions, and the death marches that killed millions of Jews. Most Concentration Camps contained one or two gas chambers. But Auschwitz had eight gas chambers. Auschwitz had…

I. Introduction I chose to research the reason behind concentration camps and what Jews experienced while being put into the camps. Concentration camps have always been a learning topic during the time of the Holocaust. I find it intriguing to learn about the hard labor they were forced to go through and how they had to leave everything behind. The popular belief was that the Jews in these camps were guilty of crime which turned out to be false. Many were innocent and brought into these camps…

Dachau: the First Concentration Camp Dachau was a concentration camp located in an abandoned factory, near the town of Dachau. The camp contained groups of Jews who Hitler felt weren't good enough for Germany. Countless Jews died every day due to living in harsh conditions. Dachau opened on March 22, 1933. Dachau was a camp Hitler made to hold political prisoners. The political prisoners were Jews. Hitler had the idea to make this camp happen. He chose an area where no one would expect to find…