Nazi Concentration Camp Research Paper

This project is about the causes and the conditions inside of the Nazi Concentration Camps. It will show how the people were treated and what it was like to be under Hitler’s control. It will also include some of the thoughts of these camps from people living at the time.

Information for this project was collected from several books, internet sourc

This is project proves that people in the Nazi Concentration Camps were treated unfairly. This is important because many people died in these camps. In March of 1933, a man named Hitler changed the world. Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician. He was also the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. Hitler

People in the camps ate about every six days, if they were lucky. They only had access to clean water on the days they ate. People there would get put in gas chambers, and then burned. In addition a documentary named Memory of the Camps, showed that where people died was where they stayed until workers came and disposed of them. The workers would drag them by their hands or feet, or through them over a shoulder and through them into pits with thousands of other dead bodies. These pits consist of 5,000 to 10,000 bodies, and the disposal was witnessed by many, as if it were a ceremony. People there were forced to do hard task that they were not physically healthy enough to do. They were forced to work in only a few pieces of clothing. This was a bigger deal in the winter because temperatures were freezing and they had only shoes and possibly a shirt. There was once a time when there was a terrible snow storm and thousand died buried under the snow. Only seven survived. This upset

Reverend Martin Niemoller, protestant minister, Germany, and concentration camp survivor said, “In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionist, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me-and by that time no one was left to speak up.” Also Jack , a former prisoner, said “I had been in this camp five or six weeks, when one day I was sitting on a stoop and the realization came over me that I had only weeks to live. I had survived in the concentration camps almost three , and I knew that what I was feeling was what I had seen many men’s eyes shortly before they died. I did not have the will to go