Concentration camps were first set up in 1933. They were camps in which large numbers of people‚ especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities‚ were deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities‚ sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution. The age range of the people in the cmap varied from very young to very old. In all the camps‚ the detainees were dehumanised and treated as mere objects. Most of the concentration camps in
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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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million Jews” (Fact Retriever 1). Concentration camps were responsible for this act of mass murder. Many would hide for from those responsible for the camps. The Nazis built and run these camps to imprison those accused of committing crimes against the state or known as “enemies of the state”. During the holocaust‚ concentration camps left a mark on our society. First‚ they were created to detain so-called “enemies of the state”‚ so they were named concentration camps. In addition‚ the Nazi’s had to
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Effects on Survivors of Concentration Camps Many people during the 1940s were put into concentration camps‚ and after getting out‚ if they did get out‚ suffered many problems. The stress and torment these people went through was pure murder (Nelken). The humans put into these concentration camps were from many different races‚ and also included the mentally retarded‚ severely handicapped‚ insane‚ and very sick people (Austin). Survivors of concentration camps faced psychological‚ spiritual‚ physical
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the Holocaust was the concentration camps. Many people were affected by the reality of what was happening in Germany. Within Germany‚ there were types of camps that people could be sent to: concentration camps‚ labor camps‚ extermination camps and prisoner-of-war camps. Concentration camps were the Nazis’ way of imprisoning the Jews‚ political antagonists and other people deemed socially unacceptable of the country. If these people were sentenced to a concentration camp and did not arrive‚ they
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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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The Chelmno concentration camp was used as an extermination camp during the Holocaust. It was known by the Germans as Kulmhof concentration camp. This camp operated in two periods during the war; from December 8th‚ 1941 to March 1943‚ and from June 1944 to January 18th‚ 1945. The first period was open during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust known as Aktion Reinhard and the second period was open during the Soviet counteroffensive. This camp was specifically built to exterminate Polish Jews
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were prisons called Concentration Camps. These prisons were very brutal‚ well organized‚ and there were different types of camps. First‚ these Concentration Camps were very brutal. Some examples of brutality are “when a person is captured they were beaten‚ tortured‚ starved‚ murdered by being worked to death‚ and by being put in gas chambers or large furnaces. A result of these actions 100 people died daily at the camps” (The Concentration Camps). The point of these “camps” was to kill and get
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Many feared that the Japanese were attempting to “Remain loyal to their homeland” and were acting as spies. Even without concrete evidence‚ President Roosevelt signed for them to be relocated. These camps were still located on American soil and were not death camps. The camps were concentration camps‚ a place where they go to basically do hard labor all day. Many Japanese American families sold their homes and assets‚ there was no guarantee that their lives would continue as normal upon their return
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