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Sarah Mosheyev Mr. Barasch 8G2 2/5/2018 Concentration Camps- The word Holocaust originally comes from the Greek expression that means, “sacrifice by fire”. In modern times, when people hear of the word, ‘Holocaust’, they think of the mass murder of millions that unfortunately people took part in. Jews, Poles, Soviet citizens, handicapped and mentally retarded Germans, Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, and so many others were targeted in this chaotic extermination. From 1933-1945, one of the German’s tactics of chaotic extermination was concentration camps. The term concentration camp refers to, a large group of people deliberately imprisoned …show more content…

The goal of Dachau concentration camp was, “the first concentration camp for political prisoners”, said the police president of Munich, Heinrich Himmler. In addition, the Dachau concentration camp was a model for the other camps. The Dachau concentration camp was split into two areas; one area for the prisoners that disobeyed the Germans, and the other half was occupied by sickening medical experiments. The prisoners were forced hard labor, and often worked to death. The prisoner’s barren labor was immensely important to the Germans due to ammunition production. Also, German physicians were assigned to do medical experiments on innocent prisoners. The experiments included decompression chambers, vast disease experiments, and many other petrifying experiments. Sadly, a large amount of people perished in these experiments. Others were permanently damaged and disabled for the rest of their lives. In 1944, the Germans established sub-camps under the control of the Dachau concentration camp administration. In the end, Dachau had more than 30 sub-camps where prisoners worked hellishly to make weaponry. Thousands of people died due to this unacceptable …show more content…

The Germans transferred 50 prisoners to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp site to start on its construction. By the end of 1936, Sachsenhausen population rises to 1,600 prisoners. The main Sachsenhausen camp included washroom, kitchen, infirmary, warehouses, offices, and workshops. However, in sub-camps, Sachsenhausen included a prison, crematorium, gas chambers, and morgues. In 1936-1937, there was enough food for prisoners to survive. However, everything changed in 1938, when the population of Sachsenhausen increased, and the weather changed into an eternal winter. The quality and amount of food decreased, starving prisoners even more than they were before. The condition of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was poor and ancient from the start, and it worsened over the years. Seconds before Sachsenhausen was liberated, people died more frequently than before. For the prisoners could not hold on any longer, and let go of the burden of life, wasted years life passing through their glistening eyes. Many deaths occurred due to starvation, disease exposure, lack of medical care, abuse, tolerance, and exhausting

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