Concentration and Death Camps

Concentration and Death Camps

Adolf Hitler and the Nazis found their only handicap in gaining total world power. In Hitler’s mid, his problem was the Jews and inferior races in Germany. Hitler was a man that would do whatever it took to accomplish his goal. So he planned a night of chaos which later became known as “Kristallnacht”. He blamed this terrifying night on the Jews and immediately they were exported to concentration and death camps. In these camps, Jews were tortured beyond belief and treated as if they were wild animals. The Nazis did everything in their power, that was inhumane to punish and kill the Jews. Because of the torture and medical experiments conducted by doctors and SS officers, concentration and death camps have gone down in history as the most inhumane and depraved places conceived by man.

In Germany, the Nazis established concentration camps almost immediately after assuming power on January 30, 1933. February of 1933, a decree removed the constitutional protection against arbitrary arrest. Immediately following these arrests, these people would be sent by train to designated concentration and death camps(concentration 1). There were three types of prisoners that were taken into these camps: “politicals”, “asocials”, and “inferior races”. The “politicals” consisted of communists, social democrats, and Jehovah’s witnesses. The “asocials” were habitual criminals, and sex offenders. And finally, the “inferior races” were made up of Jews and Gypsies(Meltzer 28). These concentration camps were designed by Hitler to hold people in “protective custody”. However, the true function of the concentration camps was to eliminate every form of active or potential opposition(Meltzer 27). These camp...

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...he state of Israel(Friedman 120 –121). The Jews who escaped now had their own homeland.

Forgetting what we knew is inhumane. By nature, man is neither good nor evil. He has both possibilities. And the freedom to realize one or the other(Meltzer 191). Words cannot describe what a Jewish man or woman might have been subject to during

this time. Experiences at these camps that changed their lives forever will always be in the back of their minds. Nor can words describe the killings and tortures committed by the Nazis. Their actions contradict their beliefs. Their actions also go against all morals ever taught by and to man. Some Jews may forgive the Nazis for the terror and fear they put into their lives, and some may not, but no matter how hard they try to move on, they will never forget what happened to them in Europe during the Nazi Holocaust.