The Holocaust was one of the world’s worst genocides; concentration camps were the worst place to be if you were a captive. Adolf Hitler‚ a Nazi‚ convinced many that certain groups of people needed to be exterminated. He started concentration camps to terrorize his enemies. The first concentration camps started in 1933‚ six years before World War Two began. There were several concentration camps. These concentration camps consisted of European Jews‚ P.O.W.’s (Prisoners of War)‚ political prisoners
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Concentration camps were places of death and hard labor for Jews. The Nazis controlled these camps‚ by dividing Jews in different camps and sections. Jews had to be creative to avoid getting caught by the Germans. First off the concentration camps were horrific places in which many Jews were put to death. Second‚ Hitler was the one who got Germans to abuse the Jews to death‚ and last; after death the Jews were still misused by the German police and Hitler. The things about the Holocaust that
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Concentration Camps There were many social‚ political‚ and economic causes of WWII. A political cause was the treaty of Versailles. The treaty of Versailles was when we forced Germany to take the blame for WWI. If they didn’t sign the treaty‚ Germany would face invasion. As Germany did not start WWI‚ they felt it was unfair. An economic cause of WWII was the Great Depression. The Great Depression happened world wide. The Great Depression started with the stock market crash. The stock market crash
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In the novel Night‚ author Elie Wiesel describes his time being exposed to the extremely brutal conditions of the Nazi concentration camps. Most‚ if not all European Jews were forced into these labor camps where the prisoners had to work in order to stay alive. Upon arrival‚ people were split into two categories‚ one of which was given the opportunity to live‚ while the other was not as lucky. This chance was “granted” to those who showed an ability to work with ease‚ but for those who showed signs
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term concentration camp refers to a place in which people are detained or confined‚ usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal normality of arrest and imprisonment that were acceptable in a constitutional democracy. In Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945‚ concentration camps were an integral feature of their government (from the Holocaust Encyclopedia at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The main reason that Hitler and his Nazi Party sent Jewish people to the camps was because
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Concentration Camps in Vienna The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps‚ all of which deployed incarcerated prisoners at forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. The camps were located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow‚ near the prewar German-Polish border in Upper Silesia‚ an area that Nazi Germany annexed in 1939 after invading and conquering Poland. The SS authorities
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Concentration camps and internment camps were both built during WWII. Internment camp were built by the US Government to house Japanese-Americans after the bombing of pearl harbor. Concentration camps were built by the Nazi’s to house jewish citizens because the Nazis thought Jewish People caused all problems. Because of the fact that Jewish people were killed tortured‚ and experimented on in concentration camps‚ Jewish people weren’t even considered people in Concentration camps and internment camps weren’t
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When World War II began there were 9 million people in concentration camps‚ when the war ended there were 3 million people. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor President Ford put the japanese americans and the immigrants into internment camps because they looked like the enemy‚ the Japanese were not able to fight in the Military because they looked like the enemy. When Hitler became Chancellor he chose to put the Jews in concentration camps because he thought they looked like the enemy‚ Hitler
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Buchenwald was a concentration camp during the holocaust. It was not cool. People died. Yup. Sucks doesn’t it? MmmmHmmm. Well I’m bored. Got to finish this paper though. So I’ll keep writing. About Buchenwald. And stuff relating to……Buchenwald. There was some stuff that happened at Buchenwald. But I can’t remember anything about it. I did some research and now I have some info on the topic. With all of its outercamps‚ Buchenwald was one of the biggest concentration camps inside the German borders
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Being a partisan fighter Ben Kamm and i are just working in a concentration camp and then we get out. This was around 1946. It was in the poland area. We met some people in the camp that we became friends with but we had to leave them behind because we just don’t lie living in these condition. We could have brought him along but he is just too goofy and he would have got us caught. Ben and I hated being in a concentration camp. They made use work so hard. If you were sick they would kill you. If
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