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largest concentration camps established on German soil. It was located on a wooded hill four and a half miles northwest of Weimar, Germany (Berenbaum and Whitlock 1). USHMM shares that it was located north of Sachsenhausen and south of Dachau. The camp was built in 1937 so it could initially house political enemies and followers of the Jewish faith. The population greatly increased after Kristallnacht in November of 1983. There were many medical experiments done at these camps too (“Buchenwald”…

Concentration Camps Concentration camps were a terrible place. Most people who were put into concentration camps did not survive. Everything was terrible about the camps including the journey to the camps and the living conditions of the camps. First of all the journey to the camps people were packed into cattle cars. There was so many people packed into a cattle car they could not sit down or lay down. They would stand packed into these cattle cars for multiple days sometimes for up to two…

an instant death.’ Between 1941 and 1944, the Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities. The living people have to face a lot of hardships in the form of long tortuous…

there was one of the largest mass murders in history being conducted right in your backyard. It is sad to say, but this was the case for some people. The site was called the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. This dreadful period of time lasted for about 5 years. After arriving at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, no one knew if they were going to make it out alive. Auschwitz was established by the Nazi’s in april of 1940. ( Alder, Nagorski 10) Heinrich Himmler, who was the leading member of the…

stripped away from him. Yanek goes through ten concentration camps, and a death marches where he is beaten, and starved, and worked mercilessly. He is determined to stay alive and make it till the end. In the first camp he works at the camps…

III 02 February 2016 The “Fritz Ritz”: Camp Hearne Prisoner of War camps are a ghastly thing to think about. When mentioned, the horrors of Soviet and Nazi camps rush to mind, thoughtless massacres done by underlings for the “greater good”. Camp Hearne, however, is different. A Prisoner of War, or POW, camp now located in Hearne, Texas, Camp Hearne kept around 48,000 Nazi soldiers. The first shipment arrived in 1943 with prisoners from Hitler’s Afrika Korps. Camp Hearne is now a museum, and it…

As the innocent people entered the death camp of Auschwitz, not knowing that almost all of them will never step foot outside of the camp again, they read Arbeit Macht Frei write on the gates as they are taken into captivity, and even killed. Arbeit Macht Frei means “work will set you free”. As the innocent people arrived at the death camp, they were put into lines two lines. Women and children in one line, and men and boys in another line. After this, they were “stamped”, or tattooed with a…

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 start of the day…

diseases spread quickly in the camp (“Auschwitz was the largest camp”). There were also many vermin and rats living with the prisoners (“Living Conditions, Labor & Executions”). Therefore, prisoners struggled to survive in the unsanitary conditions (“Auschwitz was…

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…