Concentration camps were an important tool used by the Nazis during the Holocaust. They held prisoners, tortured them, and made them suffer until they died. During World War II the “camp system”, established by the Nazis, expanded quickly and there were more than 40,000 concentration camps established within the years of 1933 and 1945. Prisoners at the concentration camps were beat to death daily and suffered from lack of food and punishments. Buchenwald concentration camp was just one of many other camps during the Holocaust, it had about 87 sub camps located all across Germany. The camp’s population was still increased after many deaths separation of the prisoners to different camps.
Buchenwald Concentration camp, was one of the largest and the first camps set up by the Nazis in July 1937. It was first set up for only male prisoners until late 1943/early 1944. Prisoners were limited in the northern part, which was an area known as the “main camp”, it was surrounded with an electric barb wire fence, watchtowers, and chains of guards and soldiers with automatic machine guns. The prisoners died daily by the lack of food and nutrients, beatings, diseases, and punishments. The camp was divided into 3 parts; “Large
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They had to work long hard hours daily. Though they were past exhaustion they were forced to do things, most of the time worse than what they had to do before. The guards and staff at Buchenwald would send the prisoners that were weak or couldn’t work any longer to the Bernburg or Sonnenstein euthanasia killing centers, there they would be killed by gas, other prisoners that were weak would be killed by phenol injections, which was done by the doctor at the camp. Euthanasia was performed regularly on prisoners, whether they were Jews, Gypsies or just a mentally ill prisoner. No one will ever be able to imagine the pain and suffering the prisoners had to go through, especially people