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Concentration camp facts and methods

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WWII would not have been the same if the tragic holocaust was not added along with it. there was estimated about 5.1-6.0 million deaths as a result from the holocaust. The main cause of death from the concentration camps was when the jews first arrived and they were told to take a shower and were smuggled into a room while poison gas leeked through the shower heads. Anpther huge death factor was the fact that they were emaciated, prisoners were only given a small ration of bread and watered down soup, if they did there work right. And prisoners fought and stole food from other ones. The holocaust was a one of the main reasons WWII went down in history.

 

 Consequences If tried to escape u got a rope tied to your hands behind your back lifting u a couple inches of the ground until you passed out, then u were revived and the process repeated several times more. All Nazi torture methods were forced to be watched by the Jews so it sends them a message about what will happen. Children and older people were told to go in a room and take a shower and without warning gas came through the room and killed them. They were striped of everything and if any valuables were found on them they were put to death.  Each of them had to build a wall everyday, if they didn’t complete the wall in time they wouldn’t get any food. If you couldn’t walk anymore or passed out, you were shot.

 

 

 

Working Methods

 They sent able bodied men in one direction and able bodied women in another and elderly and children sent to another.  Everyone who had a profession in real life that could help out was used. If u could not produce you were put to the gas chamber. The walls they had to build were made from stones from a rocky mountain and they had to carry every stone by hand from the mine to the camp. The doctor decided if you were fit for work you were sent to work camp, and if the doctor said you weren’t fit for work, you were sent to an extermination camp. Working conditions were difficult you had to march 8 miles to work. Sometimes it rained a little and saved lives but most of them were forced to go inside. Some prisoners just fell over and died right then and there from all the starvation and dehydration and of no fatigue.

 

 

Emaciation/Camp Methods and Facts

 

 

 The calculated death toll from the holocaust which is still being researched today is as follows

5.1–6.0 million Jews, including 3.0–3.5 million Polish Jews

2.5–3.5 million Gentile Polish 

200,000–800,000 Roma & Sinti

200,000–300,000 people with disabilities

10,000–25,000 gay men

2,000 Jehovah's Witnesses

 Some kids lied about their age. The holocaust lasted 1941-1945.  Concentration camps had many people of different nationalities Jews, polish, gypsies, Hungarians, Russians, and criminals that had to serve time there for crimes they committed. They saved an inch wide band from the front of their head to the back so if they escaped they would be easily recognized. Many times American bombers would fly overhead and the civilians would run for shelter, the prisoners had to stand exposed because if anyone was running for shelter they were immediately shot. They were counted morning, noon, and night and were sometimes called out at midnight for a count.  People started to die mentally, then of starvation and physical strength because one meal consisted of bread only and the other was some type of watered down soup consisting of vegetables.  Sometimes the hunger pains were so great some prisoners ate sawdust just to have something in there stomach. As time went on the hunger pains were so great the people started to steal food from each other in the dark. Sometimes they were packed in so tightly in the cattle trains people struggled and got weak and passed out and were trampled on before they could get up

 

They were given on loaf of bread and no water. Some prisoners were so thirsty they used the urine from their body to wet their lips. Some prisoners just fell over and died right where they were standing from all the starvation, dehydration and no fatigue. Every morning a wagon would come and pick up the prisoners who died each night, and then take them to the crematorium. The prisoners went to the bathroom in the barracks without moving because they were so critically wounded .If caught praying you were severely tortured and beaten.

 

 

 Life within Nazi concentration camps was horrible. Prisoners were forced to do hard physical labor and yet given tiny rations. Prisoners slept three or more people per crowded wooden bunk (no mattress or pillow). Torture within the concentration camps was common and deaths were frequent. Prisoners transported to these extermination camps were told to undress to take a shower. Rather than a shower, the prisoners were herded into gas chambers and killed. At a number of Nazi concentration camps, Nazi doctors conducted Medical Experiments on prisoners against their will.

 

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