In World, War Ⅱthere were many concentration camps but one of the biggest and most populated was Auschwitz. It was built by the Nazis in Poland. Auschwitz It was first constructed to hold polish politicians. The first exterminations of prisoners began in 1941. Adolf Hitler was the German dictator. He ordered that the Polish leadership be destroyed. In addition to the Polish leaders, he also wanted to destroy the Jews, prostitutes Romans, and the mentally ill. At the beginning of World WarⅡ…
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…
Nazi’s killed approximately 6,000,000 Jews in concentration camps during the Holocaust. The Germans had 23 main concentration camps, each camp had about 900 sub-camps, in total the Germans established 20,000 camps between 1933-1945. Auschwitz, a concentration camp during the Holocaust, was the most effective camp by strategically separating into Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. During the Holocaust Auschwitz I was the main camp, it was located in Oświęcim. “In August 1944, it…
blonde hair. The places where he got rid of the Jews was in the concentration camps. There were different camps where people got killed. In Germany there…
Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich”, the author declares,“Heydrich chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which planned the [Final Solution] to the Jewish Question-the deportation and extermination of all Jews in Europe”(Hancock). This quote shows that there was a meeting dedicated to plot the extermination of the Jews. This citation also expresses that Heydrich was at the time influential enough to preside over a Nazi meeting. Additionally, in “The Heydrich Equation”, the author…
Vught Concentration Camp Vught concentration camp was a harsh and cruel camp located in Holland. In this camp many people were shot or died from one, or more, of the many ways of death. Prisoners arrived at this cruel camp already weak and starving from their previous camp. This concentration camp was split into two different sections, one for the Jews and the other for political Dutch and Belgian prisoners. The Vught concentration camp was a cruel and strict camp, a place where many hard…
The Holocaust How Josef Mengele did impact the holocaust? Josef Mengele was a German Schutzstaffel and a physician. Who was also nicknamed the angel of death, the white angel, or Todesengel. The camp Mengele worked at was Auschwitz. He was ranked SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer which was Captain. He was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Bavaria, Germany. His parents are Karl and Walburga Mengele. Mengele was born the eldest of all of his siblings. His siblings are Karl Jr. Mengele and Alois Mengele. He…
covered the German sky. The free and powerful eagle represents the German Nazis. Life started getting harder and harder, because German Nazis kept the Jews in many different camps. The Nazis pushed them into the camp, they forced them to work without pay and they persecuted them unto death. The Jewish in the the death camp were facing a lack food, shelter, sanitation and had to work hard (Berenbaum 1). Hitler made a plan called the Final Solution to purge the Jewish people from Germany (Final…
In Germany there were more than 40,000 concentration camps during World War II. The camps were controlled by the Nazis. The nazis were cruel men and they killed most of the Jewish people. If the Jews didn't get killed, then they were being tortured. And that was very common and frequent in the concentration camps. Over 11 million people got killed each year throughout the war. Most of them were children, especially from illnesses and starvation. Most children in the age of 5 were trained to…
and Bruno’s family is moved to an extermination camp for his father’s work. As you can imagine there is little for a child to do at such a wretched place and eventually Bruno decides to explore a little, even though it was forbidden by his father. He comes across…