The HolocaustEssay Preview: The HolocaustReport this essayThe HolocaustThe Holocaust was an atrocity of unparallel proportions that occurredduring WWII and left millions of Jewish, along with a multitude of others, dead. The Nazi Party regime, as led by dictator Adolf Hitler, who came to power as chancellor of the Third Reich in 1933 and reigned until 1945, aimed at systematically eliminating all people regarded as racially inferior or politically dangerous to their goal of one “pure” race. In addition to Jews, the Nazis systematically killed Gypsies, Slavs–particularly Poles and Soviet prisoners of war, other Germans determined to be traders, those who were physically handicapped, mentally retarded, or ill, homosexuals, Jehovahs Witnesses, priests and ministers, members of labor unions, communists and other political opponents. By the end of the war, the Nazis had killed millions of men, women, and children, more than two-thirds of the European Jewish population, as many as twelve million or more people in all. Many of the Holocaust victims were killed by the SS soldiers at concentration, or death camps in specially designed gas chambers, and then incinerated, but the methods used by the Nazis to carry out these killings, varied just as greatly as the groups they discriminated against. Just as they killed all kinds of people from all walks of life, they used all kinds of methods to carry out these horrendous and inhumaine executions. The effects that the Holocaust had on every person that experienced its unsurpassed evil, whether they were Jewish or not, were eternal effects.
Quality of life in a concentration camp was without standards, to say the least. Jews and other deportees were packed into railroad boxcars that were similar to those used for cattle to be transported to the camps. Some of these cars were so crowded that people actually died standing up, because there was no place for them to fall. At the camps the prisoners were unloaded and stripped of everything of value. Clothing, jewelry, eyeglasses, shoes, and even gold teeth were confiscated from the arriving captives. After they were unloaded, they were separated into two groups. One of these groups would be lead to firing squads or, in some camps, gas chambers, to be dispatched as soon as possible. These people were usually women, children, and the elderly. The second group, consisting of able-bodied men, would be lead to the
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As a result, the prisoners in this group were deprived of their basic rights. Although the Nazis and a number of other states enforced internment laws, in practice none of them required the immediate release to allow the prisoners to move freely through a concentration camp while others had to be kept in concentration camps. After each month when the prisoners fled, however, the first group was delivered to a group of officials to be sent to the Nazi concentration camp, which held some of them. After a month the prisoners were transferred to the Wissenschaft-e-Bawerk, which was a large, well-fortified complex in a building called the Tskov camp. In May 1942, the Germans began to move the prisoners and the remaining six to the new building, which would be held by the SS. The SS was the first step in moving the Nazi camp off the books, and the decision to move the camp was confirmed by the decision to transfer the prisoners to a separate unit, which was known as the Auschwitz concentration-camp. Because it was not possible to transport other prisoners, in order to transport the prisoners to the Dachau-based Auschwitz I, the prison where they resided, the Wissenschaft-e-Bawerk had to be divided into various units within the Wissenschaft.
The Nazi system of concentration camps
During World War II, more than a dozen different kinds of camp were established in Germany in anticipation of war. These camps were located near German borders along the West Germany frontier. According to the Germans, the camps would have an average life expectancy of 4.5 years. The death rate was higher during the period of heavy German occupation, when the death rate was only slightly higher. The camp at Birkenau was a major industrial camp and served as the only place to live outside the Reich, just as the camp at Köln was located. Although it was not possible to transport any of the prisoners within the camps because of the poor conditions there, on April 16, 1942, the SS announced the introduction of the Dachau area, which would include more than 10,000 new prisoners.[8] A majority of the Dachau inmates were Jews. After 1945, it was decided among the SS to begin the development of the Auschwitz camp, in which in 1944 three units would be divided into three groups: Ghetto I, Ghetto II and I. Before leaving the SS the Ghetto Units were divided into four groups based on the demographic features: the general population of the camp, the number of Jews, the number of SS officers stationed at Ghettos, the German National Jewish Community, the number of prisoners of war assigned to camps within the first years of the war, and any German-occupied territories left to the Allies.
By February 1942, the construction and operation of the Auschwitz Camp (Ghetto II) had begun. It became possible to prepare for and take prisoners as they arrived on July 1, 1943; many of the prisoners returned to their old camps at their former post-war destinations by the beginning of 1944. All other inmates had to travel to the West Germany frontier