Death Camps Of The Holocaust

Hitler became chancellor of Germany and he did not like the Jewish people so he made death camps or most commonly known as concentration camps and him and his followers killed about 5,860,129 Jewish people.The Jewish people thrived at a population of approximately 9,796,840 million before the Holocaust. After the Holocaust there about 3,936,711 left. It was a terrible time for the Jewish people.Most people were killed in death camps or concentration camps.The camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, etc. There was also Einsatzgruppe a mobile killing squads that when around and murdered Jewish people. The prisoners in concentration camps were jews, gypsies, socialists, and homosexuals. There were 20,000 of these camps built and used during the holocaust. When Hitler became chancellor and the Nazis became in charge the Sturmabteilung ,Schutzstaffel , police, and local authorities built these camps so they could incarcerate opponents. The Schutzstaffel established bigger camps in Berlin, Munich, and Saxony. In 1934 the Schutzstaffel was the only organization that could establish and manage these concentration camps. Lichtenburg was an all female camp only.

The living conditions in these camps were really bad. The prisoners died from starvation sometimes because it was in the second World War. Since the war was going on the supplies were very limited. They were so crowded that they could not even have their own privacy. They slept on brick and wooden beds. People would also die from infection to. The camps were not even close to sanitary. At some camps they even experimented on the prisoners. The Schutzstaffel would not even sanitize their medical tools. The prisoners would get STDs beca...

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...rope.. It was the first time during the war that resistance fighters in an area under German control had staged an uprising. It would end in the complete destruction of the ghetto.”(The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19 - May 16, 1943))

I think the holocaust was really bad. Hitler and his groups killed a lot of people. He thought it was right because he said that the Jewish were polluting the German race. Well to me all Hitler could do right was to give a speech. He was a very influencing speaker. These concentration camps held prisoners that did not even do anything wrong and now they either have to do work, get experimented on, or die. I don’t understand why he killed more than Jewish people. As I said before he killed gypsies, homosexuals, etc. I have always wondered if the United States tried to do anything to help over there where the holocaust was impacting.