The main concentration camp was Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the largest camp that was created by the Nazi. It was broken down into three main camps. The first camp was built in April 1940. It was known as Auschwitz 1. The second camp was built in October 1941. It was known as Birkenau. The third Camp was built in October 1942. It was known as Buna. The number of Victims in the Auschwitz Complex alone were absurd. The SS and police killed about 1.1 million people of all different backgrounds out of the
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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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2015 Nazi Extermination Camps During the Holocaust‚ a grand total of eleven million people‚ about half of the total population in Texas as of 2014‚ were robbed of their lives because of Nazi extermination and concentration camps (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). Around half of the total people killed were Jews‚ and the rest were a combination of Gypsies‚ Soviet prisoners of war‚ Jehovah’s Witnesses‚ homosexuals‚ and/or disabled men‚ woman‚ and children (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). Although
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overshadow their city still today. The citizens of Dachau were oblivious that their city was going to become the origin of concentration camps and of the Holocaust‚ the mass murder committed by the Nazi s in World War II. Dachau Concentration Camp‚ which would soon be placed on the edge of their community‚ would serve as a model for all Nazi extermination camps. This perfect prototype of a Nazi killing machine has come to represent the start of the horror-filled Holocaust and the Nazi’s determination
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Isaacs 1 Madeline Isaacs Davis English 5th hour 24 January 2011 Chelmno This death camp had a single purpose: to kill every Jew within a few hours of their arrival. In 1940‚ thirty-three Jews lived in a village named Chelmno. Nazis came into their village and forced each one to flee. Over a year later‚ the village became the site of the first death camp‚ Chelmno. This camp was located in the Kolo County in central Poland. German occupation authorities named it Kulmhof. The entire Jewish populations
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homosexuals‚ etc. being killed‚ ten or twenty or maybe even fifty at a time. Some are burned alive. Some are gassed until death finally kills their immune system. The others take on the cruelest punishment. They’re forced to work in concentration camps where they are split up from their family and children. Children who couldn’t work were forced to death‚ some mothers coming along with their children if they refused to cooperate with giving their kids up. We ask ourselves‚ what made these men so
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compassion fatigue‚ affects feelings and behavior of the counselor. The purpose of this paper is to discuss man-made or natural disasters as well as personal trauma‚ and the counselor’s role in these situations. Skills to help the counselor deal with the effects of vicarious trauma will also be discussed in this assignment. Trauma Examples Man-made and natural disasters are traumatic to both the client and to the counselor. Oftentimes‚ the counselor is also feeling the effects of the disaster that has
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disease‚ suffrage and torture!! Although there were many concentration camps‚ Auschwitz was the deadliest and the most inhumane of all. During World War II over 1.6 million people were murdered at Auschwitz in torturous and disturbing ways‚ that changed many families forever. On the day of March 27‚ 1942 the first train full of French Jewish men‚ women and children were taken completely by force to Auschwitz concentration camp from Drancy‚ France. The word concentration means to compact into
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Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was the largest of the Nazi concentration camps‚ consisting of Auschwitz ‚ Auschwitz II‚ Auschwitz III‚ and 45 satellite camps. Auschwitz I was the original camp‚ serving as the administrative center for the whole complex. The site for the camp had earlier served as Austrian army and
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Concentration Camps in the Holocaust World War II brought many atrocities‚ 6 million to be precise (Wachsmann 2017). With so many camps not even discovered yet‚ as they are still doing an investigation into all of the locations of the camps‚ but we may not even know how many deaths and the torture of the prisoners by the Fuhrer and the Nazi’s. The Germans had many uses for the concentration camps. A concentration camp is a detention site outside the normal prison system created for military purposes
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