A concentration camp is a camp where people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. A death camp is a prison camp in which many die from poor conditions and treatment or from mass execution.
The first concentration camp was established in January of 1933. It was called Dachua. The elite guards of the Nazi party, the SS, was in charge of running the camps. Heinrich Himmler was put as head of the camps by Adolf Hitler.
The biggest and worst camp was called Auschwitz. Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, criminals, and prisoners were sent there. Once they arrived they were brutally split up into two groups by an SS officer. Most women, young children, and elderly sick people went to the left, and most men were sent to the right. The ones sent to left went straight to the gas chambers and was killed. The ones on the right became prisoners of the camp.
The ones who went to the left, with was most of the people who went to Auschwitz, were never told they had been chosen for death. It was all meant to be a secret because if they found out, they would try to fight back.
The victims sent to the chambers, were crowded in a room and told that they were talking showers. The room even had fake shower heads in it. They were also told to remove all their clothing. Once the doors shut, a Nazi put Zyklon- B pellets were put into an opening of the roof. The pellets turned into a poisonous gas once it came it to contain with air. The gas killed quickly, but not instantaneously. Once everyone in the room was dead, special prisoners were assigned an awful task. They went into the room and had to search the bodies for gold. Then they carried bodies into a cremator. Each gas chamber could murder up to 6,000 people a day.
When prisoners arrived at the camps, they were give a number that was engraved in their skin and given clothes and shoes, which were normally too big or small. Food was very scarce and usually consisted of a small bowl of soup and a piece of bread. So little food amounts were meant to starve the prisoners.
Nazi doctors in the camps were cruel. Once prisoners arrived, the doctors would search for anyone they would want to experiment on. Their favorite to experiment on was identical twins and dwarves.
In the middle of January 1945, the Nazis removed the last 58,000 prisoners from Auschwitz and sent them on death marches. The Nazis planned on marching these exhausted prisoners all the way to camps closer or within Germany.
On January 27, 1945, the Russians reached Auschwitz. When the Russians entered the camp, they found the 7,650 prisoners who had been left behind. The camp was liberated; these prisoners were now free.
The first concentration camp was established in January of 1933. It was called Dachua. The elite guards of the Nazi party, the SS, was in charge of running the camps. Heinrich Himmler was put as head of the camps by Adolf Hitler.
The biggest and worst camp was called Auschwitz. Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, criminals, and prisoners were sent there. Once they arrived they were brutally split up into two groups by an SS officer. Most women, young children, and elderly sick people went to the left, and most men were sent to the right. The ones sent to left went straight to the gas chambers and was killed. The ones on the right became prisoners of the camp.
The ones who went to the left, with was most of the people who went to Auschwitz, were never told they had been chosen for death. It was all meant to be a secret because if they found out, they would try to fight back.
The victims sent to the chambers, were crowded in a room and told that they were talking showers. The room even had fake shower heads in it. They were also told to remove all their clothing. Once the doors shut, a Nazi put Zyklon- B pellets were put into an opening of the roof. The pellets turned into a poisonous gas once it came it to contain with air. The gas killed quickly, but not instantaneously. Once everyone in the room was dead, special prisoners were assigned an awful task. They went into the room and had to search the bodies for gold. Then they carried bodies into a cremator. Each gas chamber could murder up to 6,000 people a day.
When prisoners arrived at the camps, they were give a number that was engraved in their skin and given clothes and shoes, which were normally too big or small. Food was very scarce and usually consisted of a small bowl of soup and a piece of bread. So little food amounts were meant to starve the prisoners.
Nazi doctors in the camps were cruel. Once prisoners arrived, the doctors would search for anyone they would want to experiment on. Their favorite to experiment on was identical twins and dwarves.
In the middle of January 1945, the Nazis removed the last 58,000 prisoners from Auschwitz and sent them on death marches. The Nazis planned on marching these exhausted prisoners all the way to camps closer or within Germany.
On January 27, 1945, the Russians reached Auschwitz. When the Russians entered the camp, they found the 7,650 prisoners who had been left behind. The camp was liberated; these prisoners were now free.