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

were forced to work under conditions that would lead to many things such as, illness, injuries, and deaths. Dachau severed as one of the many concentration camps, which included the treating people horrible.
Dachau was located in the town of Dachau which was 10 miles northwest of Munich in southern Germany.

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”)

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Dachau at first the camp held 4,800 prisoners and then they held 206,206 prisoners. In 1933-1945, 2,888 prisoners died in January, 3,977 died in March and 2,625 died in April, a total of 13,158 deaths in just four months in the year of 1945. In May 1945, another 196 died in June from the vaccination of all the prisoners. After war a survivor from the camp went back and started dancing the song “I Will Survive” with his grandchildren.
Dachau was known for “ The First Political Concentration Camp for Prisoners”. Experiments were done in Dachau. Hans Linberger was an SS Soldier who was wounded in a battle in the eastern front. After being in the hospital for a long time, he finally arrived back at Dachau in May of 1945 as a member of the Reserve Company. On April of 1945, the men in the Reserve Company were put into hospitals right next to a shooting scene. The men were severely wounded to the point where they were not fit enough for combat. Linberger was wounded in a battle several times and had lost an arm.
Dachau served as as one of the many concentration camps, which included them treating people horrible.Could you last as long as the prisoners did?