The Pros Of Nazi Concentration Camps

“When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners home, but instruments of terror.” - Adolf Hitler. These concentration camps truly were instruments of terror. The Holocaust was the atrocious mass murder of six million Jews and five million non-Jews that occurred from 1933-1945 by the Nazi regime under the dictator Adolf Hitler. During the Holocaust, millions of Jews were denied their natural rights. Natural rights are the rights that every person is born with, no matter what gender, race, age, etc. In the concentration camps, prisoners were stripped of their right to humane treatment. They were denied the right to adequate working conditions, adequate food, and adequate housing. The conditions of the

The barracks were originally stables, so they had no heat. The barracks had holes in the walls that allowed the cold air inside. The barracks had no actual floors; they were made of dirt. (living conditions) The prisoners slept in barracks that were intended to hold forty prisoners, but they usually held seven hundred or more. They were extremely crowded in the barracks, especially when they slept. The prisoners had to sleep on wooden bunks made of splintery wood with up to fourteen people each level. (Berkovits Gross 47) They were given rags for blankets instead of actual blankets. (Living conditions) Not only that, but they had to share the “blanket” with about thirteen other people. The Nazis forced the prisoners to live in awful shelters that had no heat, floors, blankets, or actual

They were stripped of their unalienable rights to humane treatment, favorable working conditions, adequate housing, and adequate food. Through the ways the Nazis abused and degraded the Jews, the prisoners were denied their right to humane treatment. The internment residents’ right to favorable working conditions were stripped from them by the way they were forced to do useless, grueling work all day long with no rest. Because of the frigid and crowded barracks, the internment residents’ right to adequate housing was stripped from them. Through the food they ate that lacked sufficient calories and nutritional value, the internment residents’ right to adequate food was taken away from them. No person or group of people ever deserves to be treated like this. Everyone should do their best to prevent any atrocities like this to ever occur