Concentration Camps: A Dark Chapter in History

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What are concentration camps?
A concentration camp is a place where people are detained or confined with trial. Some camps were created for forced labor while others were death camps, the majority of camps. Those transported to the camp were gassed to death shortly after their arrival, those victims included more than one million children and those that survived the camps were forced on death marches in an attempt to avoid Allied liberation of the camps.


How did concentration camps and the rules begin?
Beginning in late 1941 the Germans started mass transports from the ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps started with people viewed as the least useful like sick people, old people, weak people, and the very young. The first mass gassings started at the camp of Belzec, near Lublin, this was on March 17, 1942 and after that five more mass killing centers were built at camps in Poland like Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, and the largest one, Auschwitz-Birkenau. From 1942 all the way to 1945, Jews were deported to the camps from all over Europe, the most deportations took place during Summer and Fall of 1942, over 300,000 people were deported from the Warsaw ghetto alone. …show more content…

Nazis tried to keep operation of camps secret, but the scale of killing made this pretty much impossible. Eyewitnesses brought reports of Nazi cruelty in Poland to the Allied governments, who were brutally criticized after the war for their failure to answer or to publicize news of the mass slaughter. Many Jews worked at the camps and many were killed, around 12,000 in a day

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