The Nazis preferred way to kill the people was to use gas chambers. To get the people into the gas chambers, the Nazis lied to the people and told them that they would be going to take showers to get rid of their lice. Before entering the “showers”, The guards told the people to take off their clothes and give over all of their valuable possessions. Proceeding this, the guards pushed them into the gas chambers and within minutes the people were dead from lack of oxygen. The Khmer Rouge’s preferred method to kill the people was to put plastic bags on the people's heads and suffocate them.
However, the German government was almost the opposite. The German media was censored, and the civilians were severely intimidated by the threats of being put into concentration camps. Although, even though the two nation’s punishments were different, the experiences of the bombings for the people residing in bomb shelters or evacuating were about the same. Claasen also found that “Britain and Germany bombed one another, with few restrictions, in an attempt to destroy military and economic capacity and to break civilian morale” (Claasen 110).
The minorities of society fell victim to dehumanization at the cruel hands of SS guards and the inhumane camp where they were held captive for what seemed to be endless periods of time also like the life in China. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel the SS guards were torturing 2 many innocent people for no apparent reason. In China the kids are forced to work at a young age with no choice; kids held in concentration camps are forced to work in brutal conditions. Chinese people had to go through almost the same things that the people in the Holocaust had to go through. There was a lot of pain and times that people didn’t want to be alive anymore.
The Nazi propaganda machine portrayed the Jews as subhuman, portraying them as greedy, manipulative, and inferior. They were depicted as a parasitic race that threatened the purity of the Aryan race and the German nation. This dehumanization was not limited to the Jews alone, many groups like homosexuals, disabled, and others were also dehumanized. This dehumanization was reinforced by the laws and policies that were implemented by the Nazi government, which stripped Jews of their rights and gradually reduced them to second-class citizens.
Throughout the Nazi regime in Europe from 1943 to 1945, many Jews opposed Hitler’s policies by engaging in acts of physical, mental and spiritual resistance. Many non-Jews also stood by the Jews in opposing Hitler’s government and his policies. These people helped many Jews escape ghettos and concentration camps. However, there were also many Jewish people who did not resist the Nazi’s and fell victim to their rule. Many non-Jews did not help the Jewish people and simply followed the regime by ignoring the atrocities that the Jews faced throughout the Nazi regime.
Over about two million deaths took place caused by disease, lack of food, and execution (“Cambodia 1975”). The majority of the population was put into farms to work as laborers and were starved and tortured. Lastly, during the Holocaust, the United States had not gotten involved. In Holocaust encyclopedia, it states that, “Despite the ongoing persecution of Jews in Germany, the State Department's attitude was influenced by the economic hardships of the Depression, which intensified grassroots antisemitism, isolationism, and xenophobia (“The United States”).”
In many ways, Nazis had physically, mentally, and emotionally dehumanized their victims. The Jews were treated so badly by the Nazis that they felt as if they weren’t even humans; they felt like animals. For example, the Jewish prisoners were always being yelled at with harsh tones. Eliezer only remembers one time when a Polish
Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party grew into a mass movement. The Nazis ruled Germany through a dictatorship and instilled ideals that are inhumane and unjust. After Germany’s defeat in WWII the Nazi Party was outlawed and the top leaders of the party convicted of war crimes. As the citizens of Germany tried to cope with the horrors brought on by WWII, many stories were published by minorities who were targeted by the Nazis. While these stories were being released, many people who supported the Nazis say that they too were victims of the party.
From then on the Nazi’s treated their prisoners like objects rather than people. They dehumanized and desensitized them, thinking of them as machines that could only complete simple tasks and required a small bowl of broth with a single slice of bread to function. The Nazi’s took the victims of the Holocaust and stripped them of their identities, violated them beyond their breaking point, and wiped them clean of all emotion. First of all, the SS dehumanized the prisoners of the concentration camps by stripping them of their identities. The Nazi’s infringed upon people’s everyday lives and deprived them of their originality.
During the Holocaust, many human rights were violated. After so much time without basic human rights, those who were in concentration camps were ready to kill anyone who got in their way of food. People were deprived of food, water, and clothes. When people first arrived at concentration camps they were separated by men, children, and women. The men were forced to do labor while the women and children were burned.
From beatings to running for your life, Nazi’s would always perform the act of corruption on prisoners as if they were animals. Men and women prisoners were horribly traumatized by abuse and forced labor that led many to death in camps. Prisoners were negatively affected by the forced labor forced upon them in camps. Both men and women had to work for their lives.
People's Perseverance During the Holocaust War often leads to the murders of thousands but people still find hope and strength to carry on. During the Holocaust, an estimated eleven million people were murdered because of Adolf Hitler. During 1933-1945 Adolf Hitler became the Dictator of Germany and wanted to create a perfect German race called the Aryan race. Hilter forced every German Jew, gypsy, and other non-Germannn race into ghettos which is a lesser living areas, and later on to concentration working camps.
Lilliann Hays Ms. Rushfeldt English, Block C February 26, 2024 Violent Concentration Camps in Germany I can’t believe that concentration camps were actually a thing. Just the thought of it gives me nightmares. All of the gruesome torture that happened in these concentration camps was absolutely horrible! These people had to go through such cruel treatment just because they didn’t worship the right God, and that is just terrible. In Germany during World War II many of the Jewish people died or survived while trying to escape imprisonment for worshiping another God.
Living as a Jew between 1933-1945 was a hard life in Germany. They were tortured in concentration camps and death camps all over Germany. Other people were also sent to concentration camps and death camps. Some of them were criminals, handi-cap, homosexuals, and Romani.
Jews were carted away into prison or segregated areas by the cartful each day on the streets. Furthermore, Jews were not allowed to do simple actions, such as take pictures or play sports. They were regarded by the government as “subhuman”. The hate grew even stronger on November 19, 1938 when the Nazis destroyed every synagogue or Jewish owned store in Germany. Hitler’s book Mein Kampf became propaganda which allowed him and his National Socialist Party to rise to power.
