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    During WWII, Concentration Camps were used to capture are keep prisoners and forced them to perform difficult labor. In Germany, the concentration camps were a way that the Nazi soldiers could execute all Jews and anyone that went against them or posed a threat to the Germans. From 1933 to 1945, these camps were strategically placed all over Europe to accommodate the growing number of undesirables the Germans wanted to eliminate using harsh killing methods. Three of the Largest and most influential

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    During the Holocaust they had concentration camps. A concentration camp is a place where people were kept, usually small or crowded, and sometimes forced to do labor or to await a mass execution. The biggest concentration camp there was was the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. It opened in 1940 in southern Poland and served as a detention center for political prisoners. It was then turned into a camp where they sent the Jewish people. They would then be killed in gas chambers or used as slave

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    Dachau was very deadly and one of the concentration camps you would not want to go to. Around 63.2% people who went through Dachau ended up dead. The concentration camp Dachau affected the prisoners after the Holocaust because the camp was one of the most deadliest concentration camps and was the largest camp, prisoners would be worked to death, go through experiments and then get killed from diseases, but when liberation happened it was a great feeling for the prisoners for what they were able to

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    Ravensbruck Concentration Camp Ravensbruck was a women’s concentration camp located in northern Germany. It was open from 1939 to 1945 and held more than 132,000 prisoners throughout this time. The prisoners were sorted into categories, had poor living conditions, worked long days, and were often killed. Ravensbruck Concentration Camp was a place where many people lost their lives during World War II and the brutalities of the camp had a lasting impact on the victim’s lives. At the arrival

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    Hitler’s infamous concentration camp Auschwitz became well known as one of the most brutal camps of the Holocaust. However, it was more than just an excruciating death center. It was a place where German SS and Nazi officers broke prisoners mentally and physically. Millions of innocent lives came to an end there. Considered one of the worst concentration camps ever, Auschwitz was known for its methodical organization, horrendous treatment of prisoners, and an atrocious death toll. Auschwitz was

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    Research paper What was it like in the Concentration Camps? The concentration camp is where Jews were killed and starved. Many were killed in gas chambers and many died of typhus. Jews were kept in camps to be punished by Hitler. My body paragraph 1 is why were they created. Many Jews died in these camps because they were never fed. It was horrible to live in them that's why people went into hiding. “They used numbers to call you during roll-call and it was tattooed on their arms.” They were

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    States put its own citizens in concentration camps during WWII?” by Jane McGrath is an article about the Japanese-American Internment Camps during WWII. “Concentration Camps, 1933-1939” is about the German persecution of Jews in concentration camps prior to WWII. While both of the articles talk about countries imprisoning their own people, both did extremely different things with their prisoners. “Did the United States put its own citizens in concentration camps during WWII?” by Jane McGrath was

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    Bang! Boom! All you can see is darkness, but you hear as if outside. Prisoners of war were captured everywhere during WWII. POW camps had better treatment and were better than than other concentration camps. The conditions of the camps varied from one to another, but from Stalags and Concentration camps, they were close to the same. A large portion of deaths in POW camps were from “lack of food” (Uhl 1). The recommended daily minimum was a 2,000 calorie diet (Rees 5).However this was impossible to

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    Jews are constantly being punished in these concentration camps, whether not being present during roll-call to the harsh labor and the lack of nutrition provided. The soldiers take roll call very seriously, Abel emphasizes that judgement will be passed onto the folks lined up for those who disrupt roll call or can’t stand still for a duration of the time. Folks in these concentration camps are forced to work for long periods of time in a day. “whoever has a pair of wooden soles tied to his feet

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    and how bad their situations were during the event. Concentration camps were established in nineteen thirty three where Jews were split into two different groups, one to work and one to die. Concentration camps were the main source of death along with the SS officers in the Holocaust. Concentration camps started being established after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in nineteen thirty three ( Concentration Camps 1933 - 1938 ). Camps could be divided into two different categories according

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