Concentration Camp Research Paper

Concentration Camps

For the United States of America, World War II started on Dec. 7th, 1941. But for Jews and many other people in Europe it started in 1933. The first concentration camp, Dachau, was established in March of 1933. By the end of 1943, most camps were dismantled. Auschwitz continued operating until early 1944, it was liberated on Jan. 27th by the Soviets. Bergen-Belsen was liberated by Britain in April of 1945. It is important to learn about concentration camps so that others never forget what happened in the 1930s and 40s.

When the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum began exploring concentration camps and death camps, they originally thought that there were about 7,000 of them. (Jewish Virtual Library and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum). They later found out that there were about 40,000 concentration camps. In 1933, during the rise of the Nazi regime, Hitler as Fuhrer first established camps for these types of people: German Communists, Socialists, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. After his chancellery he started to imprison Jews. 11 million people were believed to have been killed during the Holocaust, 6 million of which were Jewish. In describing Hitler, Lieutenant Thomas Meehan of the United States 506th infantry -Easy Company said, “And for each of us who wants to live in happiness and give happiness, there’s another

Treblinka I, for example, was built in between two small towns, Treblinka and Malkinia. Treblinka I and II were both built on a railroad that connected to the Warsaw ghetto. Treblinka was also built in a heavily forested area, so it was easily hidden from view. Another example is Sachsenhausen, which was built just outside of Berlin. It was built there because Berlin was very populated and had many Jewish residents. During WWII, Berlin also functioned as the capital for the