The Impact Of Nazi Concentration Camps During World War II

During World War II there were moments throughout history that we see as crucial and have left an impact on the world today. In this writing the past will be revisited to recognize the Holocaust and look through the experiences of the Nazi’s concentration camps. Daily life for the prisoners in the early WWII Nazi concentration camps was often met with tiring and dreadful days. The Nazis would target various groups of people like Jewish people, political enemies, and many other groups of people. These prisoners would be forced to do execrable things like forced labor and torture.
First, a question must be asked, what are these early-concentration camps that were formed by the Nazi’s? To clarify, these are not the “Death-Camps” that come to many

These camps are regarded as way worse than a normal prison, as there is often abuse, torture, and hard labor on a day-to-day basis. Written in the Wiener Holocaust Library the article talks about how early on most prisoners were just put into a normal prison, but as the prisoners filled up it got too full and they were forced to put people into concentration camps. These camps were considerably more degrading with much harsher treatment (The Wiener Holocaust Library “Organization” par. 3). This helps connect the huge difference between a normal prison and these camps, as they are called much more degrading making it much more mentally effective on the prisoners. While these camps were much harsher than the prisons, how much worse were they really? According to The Weiner Holocaust Library it

It affected some prisoners so badly that they believed the best way out was to commit suicide instead of trying to wait or find another way out of their nightmare. A way of torture other than just physical abuse was to constantly play music at the camps. The music was seen as a way for the Nazi’s to show their power and to let the prisoners know that they have control over them and can do whatever they want. The experience of having to listen to the music was not seen as delightful, according to ORT Impact Through Education, there was a writing of his experience with this sound torture and he says, “For us, the radio did not mean something like entertainment, but a new form of torment for our souls. We had to listen to the speeches of the Führer and to him brutally insulting ourselves and our comrades” (ORT “Political Re-education of the Prisoners” par. 4). The prisoners were forced to constantly listen to the sounds of a speech from their enemy with songs played that would make fun of their own