Nazi Dachau Research Paper

Flashback to the beginning of World War II. Concentration camps getting built and Germany is the main offender with Hitler in charge, wanting the “Perfect” world filled with Aryans. Dachau was only one of the many in the whole world, and maybe not as well known as Auschwitz, but that does not mean it did not have a minor impression on anyone. Dachau was built in March on the twenty-second day in the year 1933, six years before the official start of World War II and it stands today as a memorial for all those who died in there. The Dachau Camp conditions were disease-ridden, uncomfortable, and cruel. The health standard in Dachau was disease ridden. Dachau had thousands of deaths in the disease department. Many of the prisoners, when deemed too sick however, were carted off to a place called Hartheim, Or

As a medical experiment, prisoners who had no choice would be submerged in ice water until they went unconscious, some even died, to see if they could succeed in reviving someone in an event like that but with Nazi soldiers. “But as we came to the center of the city, we met a train with wrecked engine-- about fifty cars long. Every car was loaded with bodies. There must have been thousands of them--all obviously starved to death. This was a shock of the first order, and the odor can best be imagined. But neither the sight nor the odor were anything compared with what we were to still see,” A direct quote from PFC (Private First Class in Military terms) Harold Porter in a letter that he too wrote to his parents. Franz Blaha, a medical practitioner, was first brought to camp as a prisoner and did many things involving hard-labour before she was asked to perform stomach surgery on a perfectly healthy prisoner of the camp. Blaha refused, so she was instead tasked to perform the autopsies of the people who died in Dachau. Many of the prisoners died of the surgeries, and this is a perfect example of Dachau’s