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    The first concentration camps were in Germany and formed shortly after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. Hitler’s authorities built concentration camps all over Germany to hold all the people they arrested. At first the point of the concentration camps was for prisoners to do forced labor and mass murder for People thought to be enemies of Germany. The early concentration camps were holding mostly German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses,…

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    Concentration camps were a form of slave labor that killed over 10 million people. ¨Hitler was to meet someone as chancellor in January 1933¨. During the years 1933 and 1945, he and his Nazi party created over 40,000 camps to imprison Jews. ¨meading concentration camp, refers to a camp in which people are detained or and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy.¨ Man of these camps had a goal to kill men, women, and children using different methods like gas chambers,…

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    In 1933 Germany opened its first concentration camp. By 1945 11 million undesirables to the Nazi regime had been callously murdered in camps. Human beings were brutally beaten, starved, raped, shot, and buried alive for 12 years. By 1945 the Allies were advancing deep into German soil. As the americans and British stumbled upon the concentration camps, they began to discover the horrors of the racist totalitarian rule. Although the survivors were free to leave their confinements, they had not…

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    Concentration Camps During the time of the Holocaust, many destructive concentration camps were built. Adolf Hitler built these camps to kill the Jews as well as other undesirables throughout Germany and all of Europe. These camps had atrocious living conditions with many of the prisoners dying of starvation, disease, and execution. In addition to torturing and eventually executing most of the prisoners in the camps, the Germans also used them to perform hard manual labor that was necessary to…

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    Holocaust concentration camps were created in an attempt to try and kill out the entire race of Jews. The officers of the concentration camps would be popular for dehumanizing its prisoners. The officers of the camps treated the prisoners like they were worthless and did many experiments on ways to kill the prisoners. German officers used many unthinkable, inhumane tactics to murder thousands of prisoners a day. There were many ways that german officers murdered the prisoners of the…

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    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…

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    Germany concentration camps and North Korean Internment camps. Although these two types of camps were created around the same time, Nazi camps were liberated unlike North Korean camps that still occur in present times. These camps both used fear in their rule, propaganda for control, and executed prisoners; yet, these two camps had some different ways of doing their wrongs, their means of executions were differing, along with the food given to prisoners, and their camp set ups. Concentration…

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    What were concentration camps? They were like a prison that the Germans build to keep the Jews inside of. They would kill them, put them to work, and make them suffocate with gas. Concentration camps were prisons that had millions of prisoners who got sick easily, and who the Germans made work like slaves in 42,000 camps and would force them into the showers to be gassed. Americans who found the camps thought they were terrible. Concentration camps were like prisons. According to the passage,…

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    11-20-15 Lang. Arts Gross Rosen The concentration camp Gross Rosen was made as a satellite camp during August 2, 1940. The concentration camp for a while had many females and became the camp with the most females. The first commander was SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Arthur Rod. The last commander was SS – Sturmbannfuhrer Johannes Hassebroek. In May 1941 it became a concentration camp and closed down February 1945. Gross Rosen Concentration Camp was a camp with mostly women…

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    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.…

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