Horrible Condtions in Concentration Camps

During the stay at Concentration Camps Jews had awful living conditions and were treated with such disrespect. Adolf Hitler became the leader of Germany beginning in January of 1933 and ending in May of 1945, during this time Hitler started the Holocaust (Adolf Hitler). The people in Hitler’s army were known as Nazis. Nazis were anti-Semitic, which means they hated Jewish people (Zullo). Hitler and the Nazis assumed that Jews along with Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled were substandard and did not deserve to live (Zullo). During the time of the Holocaust, Jews in Europe were subjected to increasingly hasher discrimination, that ended up killing roughly 6,000,000 Jews (Adolf Hitler).

Concentration Camps were major parts of the Holocaust. The Concentration Camps are camps where the Nazis confined the Jews, usually under severe conditions. Concentration Camps were used from the time Hitler was the leader until the end of his presiding. Soon after Hitler’s appointment as the leader, Concentration Camps were established in Germany. After the Nazis came to rule the SA, the SS, the police, and local civilian authorities, structured numerous Concentration Camps to imprison real and perceived political opponents of Nazi policy (Concentration Camps, 1933-1939).

The living conditions for people in concentration camps were so horrifying it is too hard to even imagine. For breakfast they would have a kind of ersatz coffee and a ration of bread. The midday meal would mostly be a watery cabbage or turnip soup. The evening meal might be the same as the morning meal. Survival for the Jews might depend on if they could bribe people to give them more food. Many camps did not provide water, and when they did it was polluted water. Scabies, tu...

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