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    History Essay To what extent is Bernstein’s documentary film reliable? Sidney Bernstein’s film, German Concentration Camps Factual Survey is reliable to a moderate extent in portraying the treatment of inmates, attitudes of German civilians and actions of the allied soldiers. The film tries to depict as accurately as possible the horrors that occurred in the Nazi concentration camps during the liberation through the lenses of British, US and Soviet camera soldiers. The documentary uses a…

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    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 prisoners. Out…

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    Nazi concentration camps were one of the most brutal and horrific torture methods in human history. Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison their victims. (Nazi Camps - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) There were many types of camps, including labor camps, transit camps, and killing centers that were designed for mass murder. Over 6 million people died, mostly Jews, but there were also Social Democrats, asocials, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. The first…

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    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."…

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    Since the first concentration camps came about in 1933, music has been inflicted among the prisoners or Jews. The prison guards require the prisoners to sing while being punished or while they marched or worked. The prisoners who did not know the lyrics, sang too loudly, or did not sing loud enough were all beaten savagely. The reasoning behind making the prisoners carry out these actions are in an attempt to teach the prisoners a from of discipline, but to also humiliate them, and to make fun…

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    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…

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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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    most known concentration camp case, Adolf Hitler hunting down Polish Jews to send them to internment(known as concentration camps). Prisoners in camps ended up living a painful life until death. The most well known method of death for prisoners in concentration camps was putting them to gas chambers. If you don’t know what are concentration camps, they’re camps that holds political prisoners, people that belonged to a specific race, religion, or ethnic group. The first concentration camp was…

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    the holocaust. The holocaust was a war inside of a war. It was an all-out attempt by Hitler to extinct the Jewish race. The holocaust is something that shouldn’t be forgotten anytime in the new future. The treatment of the prisoners in the concentration camp was inhumane, the holocaust took place not long ago it was only a couple hundred years about, and everybody should respect the victims of such awful crimes. It is important to remember how many despicable acts they did against the…

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    orders to kill two German Military prisoners of war, but what he had found next was not expected, he had discovered the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. He had engaged in a firefight with German Soldiers guarding the camp, Hymas and three other machine gunners blew through the razor-wire fence and captured or killed all of the guards. Buchenwald was the first concentration camp found by American Soldiers. And Hymas, 19 years old at the time, was given the nickname “Leo the Liberator.” But the…

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