Camp Prisoner Wer Dachau Research Paper

Imagine living in a concentration camp where you were starved and not treated with any respect, how long do you think you could last? In concentration camps the Nazis subjected millions of people including both Jews and other victim groups to forced labor under brutal conditions. In the early 1900’s, 1937 to be exact, the Nazis exploited the forced labor of so called “enemies of the state” for economic gain and to meet desperate labor shortage. At the end of the year, most Jewish men in Germany were required to perform forced labor for various government agencies. The German authorities required Polish Jews to live in Ghettos and deployed the Polish Jews at labor. For Jews, the ability to work often meant the potential to survive. After the Nazis began to implement the “Final solution” a plan to murder all of European jewry. Jews that didn’t work were often killed or deported. A conscious policy of “annihilation through work” , under certain categories that prisoners were worked to death. Camp Prisoners

The location of the camp was chosen by the Nazis because it was the site of an empty munition factory. It was an ordinary concentration camp. Some of the conditions were, they made the prisoners drink imitation coffee and Herbal “tea” for breakfast. For lunch they got watery soup. If they were lucky the found a piece of turnip or a potato peel.Most of the people that were taken to Dachau were jews. Similar concentration camps had “German physicians performed medical experiments on prisoners, including high-altitude experiments using a decompression chamber, malaria and tuberculosis experiments, hypothermia experiments, and experiments testing new medications. Prisoners were also forced to test methods of making seawater potable and of halting excessive bleeding. Hundreds of prisoners died or were permanently disabled as a result of these experiments.” (“Dachau”)