The Camp

given the choice, would you rather die on the battlefield quickly, or waste away in a prison camp for the rest of your life? The 215,000 soldiers that were captured by the Union did not get the choice. Prison camps, at the time, were considered one of the most disturbing, traumatic places on earth. Of what prisoners have told us, Union prison camps are even worse. Andersonville may not be perfect, but Camp Elmira in New York -nicknamed hellmira- is so much worse. Elmira was built by the…

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 most famous of camps, it has had its fair share of horror stories. Never officially declared a death camp but designed more as a labor camp especially after World War II began.…

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 images and…

personal belongings and thrown in camps because you were different. The Japanese and Japanese-Americans were thrown into camps out of fear and paranoia in general after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Jewish people were thrown into camps out of hatred Hitler and the Nazi’s had for them. Although both internment camps and concentration camps were wrong only the Japanese got the rightful apology they deserved. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps are not the same thing because…

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,…

Concentration Camps A concentration camp was a horrible place Jews were sent to so they could be killed in numerous ways. Some main concentration camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau and Belzec which were located in Poland. Also Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald which were located in Germany. These camps tortured the Jews slowly and painfully. Jews could only imagine being called up and having to go to these horrible camps where the Nazi would inflict pain on them. The idea of concentration camps brings…

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…

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 main goal was…

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.…

Daily Life in 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…