Why was Auschwitz the most effective Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust? Auschwitz was the most effective Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust because of their methods for mass murder / extermination, structure and administration, consistent rate of murdering and their financing. The Holocaust is the time period when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army lead a revolution against the Jews and anyone who stood in the way of their visions. During the Holocaust, the Nazis established many camps to exterminate or murder innocent citizens, Auschwitz is the most effective. Auschwitz was effective because of one the most fast paced killing methods that were used such as gas chambers, overworking prisoners, and diseases. Second the structure and administration of Auschwitz helped keep things in order and execute effectively. There was guarded and commandment training in the camp, authorities and rankings and the economic administration to help fund materials and gear. Throughout time, it is easy to see how consistent Auschwitz is with extermination based on the deaths of innocent children, female and male Jews, how many lost their lives in Auschwitz, the average life span of a Jew, and the camp protocols. A project, or camp, such as Auschwitz was mostly self-financed with the kidnapping or arresting of their own slaves ,making money off labors done by prisoners and last but not least, being funded by other allies such as Italy and France.
Overview on the Holocaust
Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning, sacrifice by the fire. Around the 1930’s Hitler and the Nazis Party hiked to power due to the citizens and government outlook that made up the interwar period in Germany. Many Germans could not accept their country’s def...
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...d tortured the innocent, but the camp was efficient and well run so it had to be a success at least for the Nazis and their leaders.
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Imagine the worst torture possible. Now imagine the same thing only ten times worse; In Auschwitz that is exactly what it was like. During the time of the Holocaust thousands of Jewish people were sent to this very concentration camp which consisted of three camps put into one. Here they had one camp; Auschwitz I; the main camp, Auschwitz II; Birkenau, and last is Auschwitz III; Monowitz. Each camp was responsible for a different part but all were after the same thing; elimination of the Jewish race. In these camps they had cruel punishments, harsh housing, and they had Nazi guards watching them and killing them on a daily basis.
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Murders inflicted upon the Jewish population during the Holocaust are often considered the largest mass murders of innocent people, that some have yet to accept as true. The mentality of the Jewish prisoners as well as the officers during the early 1940’s transformed from an ordinary way of thinking to an abnormal twisted headache. In the books Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi and Ordinary men by Christopher R. Browning we will examine the alterations that the Jewish prisoners as well as the police officers behaviors and qualities changed.
The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel gives an in depth view of Nazi Concentration Camps. Growing up in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel, a young Jewish boy at the innocent age of 12, whose main focus in life was studying the Kabbalah and becoming closer in his relationship with God. In the memoir, Elie Wiesel reflects back to his stay within a Nazi Concentration Camp in hopes that by sharing his experiences, he could not only educate the world on the ugliness known as the Holocaust, but also to remind people that by remembering one atrocity, the next one can potentially be avoided. The holocaust was the persecution and murder of approximately six million Jew’s by Aldolf Hitler’s Nazi army between 1933 and 1945. Overall, the memoir shows
While brutal imprisonments were intended to work and starve detainees to death, killing camps, or concentration camps were constructed only with the end goal of slaughtering large quantities of individuals rapidly and productively. There were six distinctive elimination camps known as Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, and Maidanek. Detainees that were compelled to move to these camps were advised to strip to clean up. Rather than it being a shower, the detainees were wheedled into the gas chambers and were slaughtered promptly. At Chelmno, rather than gas chambers, the detainees were moved into gas vans. Auschwitz alone, being the biggest focus and eradication constructed, is evaluated to have had 1.1 million individuals
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. New York: Classic House, 2008. Print.
Holocaust Facts The Holocaust has many reasons for it. Some peoples’ questions are never answered about the Holocaust, and some answers are. The Holocaust killed over 6 million Jews (Byers.p.10.) Over 1.5 million children (Byers, p. 10). They were all sent to concentration camps to do hard labor work.
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The Holocaust continues to exist as a black mark in the history of Germany; through the government supported torture and extermination of both men and women, more than 6 million lost their lives. As a consequence of the collective tragedy for both sexes, there has been much debate pertaining to the focus of gender specific suffering in Holocaust literature; for this reason, the Holocaust accounts of women writers were largely ignored prior to the 1970’s. Many historians still refute disparities existed between the male and female experience. However, it is worth noting that the social, familial, and cultural expectations of men and women, both prior to and during the war, varied greatly. Moreover, these diverging roles promoted distinctively different coping, processing, and accounting of the tragedies stemming from the Holocaust. By examining the unique experiences of women, both within and outside the concentration camps, one can logically conclude these remarkable accounts broaden the scope of Holocaust literature. Embedded gender roles helped the survival efforts of women, and these unique female perspectives are valuable in accurately portraying the Holocaust experience.
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Thousands of people were sent to concentration camps during World War Two, including Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel. Many who were sent to the concentration camps did not survive but those who did tried to either forgot the horrific events that took place or went on to tell their personal experiences to the rest of the world. Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi wrote memoirs on their time spent in the camps of Auschwitz; these memoirs are called ‘Night’ and ‘Survival in Auschwitz’. These memoirs contain similarities of what it was like for a Jew to be in a concentration camp but also portray differences in how each endured the daily atrocities of that around them. Similarities between Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi’s memoirs can be seen in the proceedings that
Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) [first published as If This Is a Man], p. 86.
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