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    ” Primo was an Italian born, holocaust survivor. Primo was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp for eleven months before being liberated by the red army on January 18th, 1945, he was one of the twenty out of six hundred and fifty italian jews to make it out alive . During the Holocaust millions of jews, gypsies, political prisoners, and other group were put in concentration camps. The term concentration camp is a camp where people are detained or confined under harsh conditions. Many cultures were

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    First Concentration Camp

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    The First Concentration Camps The first concentration camps were very important to the entire holocaust. The Nazis were able to imprison any people who were seen as non-Aryan in camps where they would be forced to work or they could even be killed upon arrival. Therefore, many people died in these camps because of their race or religion. There were very brutal living conditions in most camps and it made an enormous impact on the lives of all prisoners. The first concentration camps were complex and

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    First Concentration Camps What was the Holocaust concentration camps. The concentration camps were part of world war II. The first camp was Dachau and its purpose was to house political prisoners. The Holocaust is worse than World War I. The Holocaust concentration camps were one of the things that has happened in world history. The Nazi, Germany and its allies established concentration camps all throughout Germany. The concentration camps were there for a range of reasons. These camps were used

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    WWII Concentration Camps

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    notorious concentration camps; established as part of Hitler's Final Solution to exterminate all Jews, left one of the longest lasting impacts on world history. Soon after, the United States put an internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor due to stereotypes surrounding their race. Comparing the German concentration camps to the American internment camps shows a contrast in the harsh reality of the living conditions in these concentration camps and the

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    The concentration camp was a place where they took jewish people and had them killed or beaten up because they were jews. In April 1940, the first commandant was a man named Rudolph Hoss for Auschwitz. Auschwitz-Birkenau was a general term for the network of Nazi concentration and Labor camps. The camp was mostly described by people as “The Death Camp” because it was basically a camp for killing jewish people( Auschwitz 1). The concentration camp had established three main camps which were put

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    construction of various camps throughout the regime. These camps were designated for extermination, foreign labor, POWs, and civilian camps for adults and children. “The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp” gives us a better understanding of concentration camps such as Dachau. It also gives a detailed understanding of the absolute power that the Nazis wanted to maintain. These entities are also apparent in “Disciplinary and Punitive Regulations for the Internment Camp”, which lays out the strict

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    labor concentration camp during World war II. It was founded in April, 1940 by Hitler and the SS, and located in Poland. The camp was extremely violent, murderous, and an evil place. It was the home to the murder of 1.5 million Jews. Sadly it had the most deaths of any concentration camp ever. It was first being used to hold Polish political prisoners, people who spoke out against Hitler after the Germans took over Poland starting World War II. The whole area consisted of three total camps over

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    The word concentration camp refers to camp where people are confined or detained. Always under harsh conditions. Without regard to legal norms of arrest or imprisonment. From 1933 to 1945 concentration camps were an integral feature of the regime. Only in Nazi Germany of course. The first concentration camp came after Hitler's appointment as chancellor. Basically, Hitler started the concentration camps. This happened back in January in 1933. The Storm Troopers, the SS, the police, and local civilians

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    Majdanek Imagine yourself going back to 1939 in World War 2 to Majdanek, a terrifying Nazi concentration camp in Judlin, Germany. Majdanek was different from most concentration camps, one by their location, two they had one of the lowest amount of deaths , three Majdanek was the first concentration camp to be discovered by allied forces. A German Concentration Camp, extermination camp built and operated by Schutz Staffel on the outskirts of Lublin. Majdanek was operated from October 1, 1971 until

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    March 1933 was the concentration camp “Death camp” and established by the national socialist government Adolf Hitler put the jaws into the camp so that he would kill them.But by the end of WWll many of gypsies, homosexuals and Anti-Nazi civilians from.between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 40,000 camps and other incarceration sites. The perpetrators used these sites for a range of purposes, including forced labor, detention of people thought to be enemies of the

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