Nazi concentration camps Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Holocaust Concentration Camps.

Nazi concentration camps Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Holocaust Concentration Camps.
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Holocaust Concentration Camps

Summary: An overview of the Nazi concentration camps in use from the 1930s until their liberation by the Allies near the end of World War II. The overview includes descriptions of the more infamous camps, such as Auschwitz, Dachau, and Belzec; the various purposes of the camps, which ranged from slave labor to extermination of prisoners; and the dreadful conditions that existed in the camps.
A concentration camp was a prison where the many Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, disabled, Poles and Jehovah's Witnesses were sent by the Nazi regime. It is estimated that the Nazi party created and controlled 15,000 different camps which were found in several countries. These countries included Germany, France, Holland, Norway, Poland, Russia, Yugoslavia, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Most of the camps were constructed near railways which was mainly how the prisoners arrived at the camps. Other times prisoners were forced to endure a long trek on foot to the camps.

Many of the infamous concentration camps resided in Poland. Chelmno, being one of the well-known camps, was known for its operation of three gas vans used for extermination. It used carbon monoxide and had the capacity to murder up to twelve thousand prisoners within a period of two days. Auschwitz was another infamous concentration camp...

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