Concentration camps, also referred to as extermination camps or death camps, were basically prisons where “undesirables” would be sent if the Nazis captured them. Most people who were captured and put into a concentration camp accepted their fate because it was widely known that it was a death sentence. Upon arrival at the camp everybody is stripped completely naked and hosed down, the men and women are then separated and sent to face whatever torture is waiting within the camp. Some camps gassed people soon after their arrival while other camps tortured people until they eventually died from the damage to their bodies. …show more content…
The prisoners in the camps would rarely get food and when they did it was hardly edible. Some people died to Typhus, a bacterial disease spread by lice and other parasites, others died simply from starvation. A very commonly used method of torture was the death walk. The Nazi soldiers would force prisoners to strip completely nude in deep winter snow and force them to walk in groups until they literally dropped dead one by one. Another method is the gas truck where prisoners were piled into an airtight truck then the exhaust from the engine was redirected into the