During World War II, Nazi Concentration Camps were responsible for millions of deaths in a span of twelve years. Concentration Camps were places where people were kept as prisoners and forced to do heavy labor. Many people died from the heavy labor. When Adolf Hitler became the chancellor in 1933, the first concentration camps were built. The prisons served a big purpose during the Holocaust, they controlled many people (specifically Jews) and they killed them. The Holocaust was a mass murder of six million Jews and some other groups. There were a lot of concentration camps, with several major camps called Auschwitz, Belzec, and Chelmno. These camps lasted from Hitler’s appointment as the chancellor (1933) to the end of World War II (1945). He had a difficult childhood. His brother died and his dad also died later. His dad was a harsh man, and he did not approve his interest in art. Hitler had problems in school, and when he got older, he got rejected by art school 2 times.. He was very interested in German Nationalism, so he joined the German Army. A few years after the first world war, Hitler attempted to form a new government for Germany. So he crashed into a beer hall in Munich, he wanted to show his plans, but it failed.He was sentenced to jail because some people died in this attempt. When he was released from prison, he started working for Germany’s government. He also ran for president, ultimately finishing as the runner-up. Although he lost, the winner, Paul von Hindenburg, unwillingly agreed to appoint Hitler as the chancellor. The first concentration camp was built at Dachau, which was established two months after his appointment as chancellor. Hitler didn’t like Jews, he believed that they caused all evil and that Germans were the pure race. He soon had his own secret police, called The Gestapo. These secret police would arrest anyone, and they would send them to the concentration camps or interrogate them. The Gestapo specifically targeted Jews, Communists, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, educators, mentally and physically handicapped, and anyone who opposed the Nazi
The Holocaust was an extraordinary event that affected the lives of millions of people, including Elie Wiesel, and led to the death of many innocent lives. It all began when Adolf Hitler became Germany’s dictator in 1933. Hitler praised the German population and seemed to ban all other competing races, specifically the Jewish population in Germany. This hatred toward the Jews led to extreme discrimination. Hitler’s main goal was to lead the Jewish race out of the country through the establishment of harsh laws against them (Barrett). After having little effect, Hitler decided to force the Jews into political imprisonment which led to the creation of the first concentration camps in 1933. However,
Thousands upon thousands of innocent Jews, men, women, and children tortured; over one million people brutally murdered; families ripped apart from the seams, all within Auschwitz, a 40 square kilometer sized concentration camp run by Nazi Germany. Auschwitz is one of the most notorious concentration camps during WWII, where Jews were tortured and killed. Auschwitz was the most extreme concentration camp during World War Two because innumerable amounts of inhumane acts were performed there, over one million people were inexorably massacred, and it was the largest concentration camp of over two thousand across Europe.
Hitler did not do particularly well in school, leaving formal education in 1905. Unable to settle into a regular job, he drifted. He wished to become an artist but was rejected from the Academy in Vienna. (http://www.history.co.uk/biographies/adolf-hitler)
The death camp was a terrible place where people where killed. Hitler is who created the death camp for Jews. The death camp was used for extermination on Jews. This occurred on 1939 – 1945. The death camps were in the country of Europe. Hitler did all this because he didn’t like Jews and the religions. The book Night is a autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. The poem called First they came for the communist written by Martin Neimoller is a autobiography.
Concentration camps were started in many ways and many they were not good. “ The concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933.” Provided from(USHMM). This shows how he became a leader and soon after was the takeover of Germany. “German authorities
“Concentration camps (Konzentrationslager; abbreviated as KL or KZ) were an integral feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).
Adolf Hitler had a very difficult childhood and did not have a good relationship with his dad. He had many losses in his life. For the years that he was homeless in Vienna it was at this time where he developed his hatred for Jews and started going to meetings about that and started to believe that Jews were the cause of everything that has happened around the Germany. During the World War I time he wanted to sign up and be in the army. But instead he was just a messenger for the World.
The first Nazi concentration camps were organized shortly after Hitler came to power. These facilities held tens of thousands of political prisoners arrested by the Nazis. Later on (around 1940’s), several new camps were established, with specially constructed gas chambers disguised as showers. When the Jews arrived at a camp, a physician singled out the young and healthy while the others were sent directly to the gas chambers. For identification, camp personnel tattooed a number on the arm of each person. The prisoners were forced to work long hours under cruel conditions. When they were too weak to work any longer, they too were killed or left to die. During the Holocaust, the Nazis kept their actions as secret as possible, and they misled their victims in many ways to prevent resistance. Initially, the Jews in the ghettos either were not aware of the slaughter planned for them or simply could not believe it was happening.
The first concentration camps were set up in 1933. Hitler established the camps when he came into power for the purpose of isolating, punishing, torturing, and killing anyone suspected of opposition against his regime. In the early years of Hitler's reign, concentration camps were places that held people in protective custody. These people in protective custody included those who were both physically and mentally ill, gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, Jews and anyone against the Nazi regime. By the end of 1933 there were at least fifty concentration camps throughout occupied Europe.
Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889 in Austria. He was the fourth child to be born. Adolfs' dad was very strict and died when Adolf was just thirteen years old. His mom died of breast cancer when he was seventeen years old. Hitler wanted to be an artist. He loved painting and drawing, so he applied for art school, however he didn't get in. He waited a year and applied again. He never got into art school. When World War II began, he wanted to serve as German soldier. He got endured in an explosion which resulted in short term hearing loss. Adolf was sent in for surgery and when he woke up, the first thing he heard was that Germany surrendered. Hitler became a memeber of the Nazi group in 1923. He led a coup to overthrow the government. Due to that, he served a nine month of a five year sentence. While Hitler was in jail, he wrote a book about how he thinks things should be (My Struggle). He was determined to build up the Nazi Party to take over the governement legally. He gave strong powerful speeches and led people to believe what he was doing was the right thing to do.
The Nazi soldiers arrested masses of male adult Jews and held them captive in camps for short periods of time. A death camp is a concentration camp designed with the intention of mass murder, using strategies such as gas chambers. Six death concentration camps existed: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka.... ... middle of paper ...
Concentration camps and extermination camps. Extermination camps held one purpose, for the killings of innocent people. Concentration camps however are just as brutal. Being imprisoned in a concentration camp meant harsh inhuman forced labour, brutal mistreatment, disease, hunger, and random executions. In the beginning of the camps, the main prisoners would be political opponents of the Nazi regime. Then once the camps got going, people who were jewish, gypsies or criminals who were caught would be taken prisoner to these death camps. In the end over several hundred thousand died in these concentration camps and more than three million Jews were murdered in extermination
How do you judge the atrocities committed during a war? In World War II, there were numerous atrocities committed by all sides, especially in the concentration and prisoner of war camps. Europeans were most noted for the concentration camps and the genocide committed by the Nazi party in these camps. Less known is how Allied prisoners were also sent to those camps. The Japanese also had camps for prisoners of war. Which countries’ camps were worse? While both camps were horrible places for soldiers, the Japanese prisoner of war camps were far worse.
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Germany was experiencing great economic and social hardship. Germany was defeated in World War I and the Treaty of Versailles forced giant reparations upon the country. As a result of these reparations, Germany suffered terrible inflation and mass unemployment. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party who blamed Jews for Germany’s problems. His incredible public speaking skills, widespread propaganda, and the need to blame someone for Germany’s loss led to Hitler’s great popularity among the German people and the spread of anti-Semitism like wildfire. Hitler initially had a plan to force the Jews out of Germany, but this attempt quickly turned into the biggest genocide in history. The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933.“...the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.” –Adolf Hitler
Being of military decent Hitler’s father ruled his home with an iron fist. This may have affected Hitler in more negative ways than normal. His father soon passed in his early adolescence and Hitler was raised by a single parent, his mother. In the beginning Hitler was not very interested in school he seemed disengaged, nonchalant and rebellious, his true passion lied in being an artist. Unfortunately with many failed attempts of entrance at the Art School Hitler’s hopes of ever becoming an artist remained a dream. Continuing life without formal education life was a little rough on Hitler. His beloved mother now diagnosed with a form of cancer and soon passed away too, Hitler was forced to survive by recreating scenes from postcards and living off the little pension he acquired from that.