Holocaust Effects
World War Two set a mark in history that would cause major change in many aspects of lives today, the Holocaust possibly the most significant event of them all. By having different types of Nazi camps functioning in different ways, Nazi Germany was able to mentally and physically affect the victims and perpetrators, to this day, through the use of death camps, labour camps and prisoner of war camps. The Holocaust used a variety of different types of camps to work towards the Final Solution, extermination camps, labour camps and prisoner of war camps. The effects of these camps can be situated into two categories, long term and short term effects. The short term effect was in the moment and when Nazi Germany was in control. The long term affect
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The camps were overall very effective in the eyes of Nazi Germany, eliminating onwards of 150000 Jews, homosexuals, disable people and rebels daily, but this would later have a significant effect on both the victims and perpetrators. Immediately after World War 2 the Nuremberg laws were put into place to prosecute the perpetrators in the war. One defendant, Rudolf Höss, directed the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps from 1940 to 1945. Höss was responsible for transforming Auschwitz into the largest concentration camp, where more than 2.5 million people were killed. Not only did this put into practice existing laws but also inspired new international laws on genocide. Looking at a map of Population Displacement from the years of 1945- 1948 in contrast to the map showing the locations of the different camps, the general population moving away from the camps. This image shows how wwii effected the populations of Europe immediately after the war, the Russians pushed west, Poles moved west out of the Ukraine to the newly enlarged Poland prisoners of war, Holocaust survivors, and slave labourers left Germany. A large majority of this population was somehow effected by the Nazi camps, all of which left Germany leaving a major impact on the significance of the holocaust. The holocaust left a very substantial impact on all of the people either involved or informed and challenges us to never make the same mistake again in the
The camps were overall very effective in the eyes of Nazi Germany, eliminating onwards of 150000 Jews, homosexuals, disable people and rebels daily, but this would later have a significant effect on both the victims and perpetrators. Immediately after World War 2 the Nuremberg laws were put into place to prosecute the perpetrators in the war. One defendant, Rudolf Höss, directed the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps from 1940 to 1945. Höss was responsible for transforming Auschwitz into the largest concentration camp, where more than 2.5 million people were killed. Not only did this put into practice existing laws but also inspired new international laws on genocide. Looking at a map of Population Displacement from the years of 1945- 1948 in contrast to the map showing the locations of the different camps, the general population moving away from the camps. This image shows how wwii effected the populations of Europe immediately after the war, the Russians pushed west, Poles moved west out of the Ukraine to the newly enlarged Poland prisoners of war, Holocaust survivors, and slave labourers left Germany. A large majority of this population was somehow effected by the Nazi camps, all of which left Germany leaving a major impact on the significance of the holocaust. The holocaust left a very substantial impact on all of the people either involved or informed and challenges us to never make the same mistake again in the