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World War Ii Heinrich Himmler
331 wordsThe Nazis establishes Auschwitz in April 1940, under the orders of Heinrich Himmler. Heinrich Himmler was in charge of two Nazi organizations. The camp at Auschwitz originally housed political prisoners from occupied Poland and various concentration camps from within Germany. Prisoners were transported from all over Nazi-occupied Europe. When the prisoners arrived at the complex they were separated into three groups. One group was sent directly to the gas chamber at Birkenau within a few hours, ...
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Prisoners Of War Concentration Camps
1,397 words... The scientifically planned crematoria should have been able to handle the total project, but they could not. The whole complex had forty-six retorts, each with the capacity for three to five persons. The burning in a retort lasted about half an hour. It took an hour a day to clean them out. Thus it was theoretically possible to cremate about 12, 000 corpses in twenty four hours or 4, 380, 000 a year. But the well-constructed crematoria fell far behind at a number of camps, and especially at ...
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Labour Camps Gas Chambers
912 wordsLocated thirty-seven miles west of Krakow, Auschwitz was the camp where Jewish people were killed and worked. This camp, out of all the rest tortured the most people. At the camp there was a place called the "Black Wall, " this was where the people were executed. In March of 1941, there was another camp that started to be built. This second camp was called Auschwitz II, or Birkinau. It was located 1. 9 miles away from Auschwitz I. People that were chosen to come to these camps were expelled from...
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Refuse To Accept Extermination Camps
1,201 wordsDuring the 1930 s, the Nazis built concentration camps to imprison the parts of the population that they desired. At first the camps were located in Germany, but as the Nazi forces spread across Europe, so did the camps. Eventually the camps were created to murder the European Jews. Every day thousands of prisoners were suffocated in the gas chambers, after which their bodies were burned in the crematoriums. In Auschwitz, the most notorious death camp, approximately 1. 5 million Jews were killed...
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Hundred And Fifty Heinrich Himmler
1,787 wordsThe Nazi camp of Auschwitz, located thirty miles west of Krakow, was the largest, most deadly camp used during World War II (Friedrich 2). Built in 1940, it was the first camp located beyond the frontiers of the Third Reich (Friedrich 4). "According to various estimates, 1, 600, 000 people were murdered in the killing center" (Yahil 372). Ninety percent of those who were murdered in Auschwitz were Jewish (Yahil 372). Originally an Austrian artillery barracks, Auschwitz was to be supposed to be b...
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Gas Chambers Death Marches
1,125 wordsAuschwitz was a series of 3 camps. The first camp was known as Auschwitz 1. It was the main camp and the first to be made in 1940. It was continuously expanded by forced labor. It was mainly a concentration camp. But it also had a gas chamber and crematorium. Auschwitz 2 was known as Biirkenau, also. Its construction started in October 1941. It had the largest Prisoner Population. It was divided by electrical fences into 9 different sections. It is guarded by SS guards and dogs. There were secti...
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One Of The Worst Concentration Camps
884 wordsAuschwitz was and still is one of the most highly known concentration camps of the holocaust. The Auschwitz complex was the site of scientifically and efficiently executed genocide during W. W. II. The camp is commonly applied to the complex of death and concentration near town. The prisoners went through a lot of hard times. They were separated from their families. Had very poor sleeping and living conditions. The nourishment wasnt good enough. Everyday in the camp the prisoners feared for thei...
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Prisoners Of War Extermination Camps
1,405 wordsIs taking a persons life because of religious persuasion justified? Hitler thought so; he had a dream of ruling the world and those who didnt fit his plans were disposed of. Hitlers plan was to make a world of blonde-haired blue-eyed Germans. He started building concentration camps throughout Germany and the Reich during the late nineteen thirties. At first concentration camps were for the political prisoners, criminals, and security risks. He began to abolish the Jewish majority and others that...
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York Franklin Watts Gas Chambers
1,164 words... and Soviet prisoners of war. It became a death camp in 1941. "Auschwitz was divided into three areas: Auschwitz 1 was the camp commander's headquarters and administrative offices. Auschwitz 2 was called Birkenau and it was the death camp with forty gas chambers. Auschwitz 3 was a slave labor camp. "On the gate of Auschwitz was a sign in German which read, 'Arbeit macht frei', which means work makes you free. " Auschwitz included camp sites a few miles away from the main complex. At these sit...
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World War Ii The Axis Powers
1,376 wordsAlmost everyone knows of The Axis Powers. They were enemies of The Allied Powers in World War II. They are synonymous with The Holocaust because Adolf Hitler was the man who started The Holocaust and he ws the dictator of Germany. The Axis Powers originally was the alliance between Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. Italy did not do much during the war though. The goals of The Axis Powers clearly emerged in the Italo-Germany Pact. It was a pact that was signed in M...
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Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration Camps
1,954 wordsNo one could ever determine the importance of six million lives, it would be impossible to. "The intentional extermination of six million people has affected the world in ways that we will never know, maybe the person who could have discovered the cure for Cancer or AIDS died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. " (Fischel, 78). Six million people is fully one fifth of the world's population. This may not sound like a huge number, but it is. Six million lives all gone. Whole families were wiped out...
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Comparing Lisbon Earthquake And Auschwitz
1,000 wordsIn 1755, an earthquake measuring 9. 0 on the Richter scale occurred in Lisbon, Portugal, changing European history and philosophy. But how does one geologic event trigger a paradigm shift from naturalism to liberalism Naturalism unites with rationalism during the Age of Enlightenment, a philosophical movement during the 18 th century, which rejects traditional social, religious and political ideas with an emphasis on rationalism. People believe in a world, which follows logical rules, where reas...
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Managed To Survive Angel Of Death
2,187 wordsAuschwitz and Buchenwald Auschwitz and Buchenwald were the most terrible concentration camps. They were known under the names the Death Factories, the death conveyors, and the death machines, to mention a few. As any other definition, these are still far from exactness to make the picture complete. In fact, the most monstrous government with its own authorities, hierarchy, value system, economy, governors, executors, victims and heroes was created in Polish Silesia. Less than three thousand peop...
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Holocaust Survivors Comic Book
1,978 wordsCharacter analysis: Vladek from Maus I and II Art Spiegelman's two-volume narrative Maus is a Holocaust survivor's tale as told to a son who wants to record his father's story in a book with the hope that this effort will lead to acknowledgement by his father. In the course of the father's, Vladek Spiegelman's narrative, Artie Spiegelman reveals through words and behavior what it means to be a survivor's child. Stories of survivors are generally classified as testimonies; Vladek's narrative has ...
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Bergen Belsen Auschwitz Birkenau
2,619 wordsHistory 301 Dr. Equality Amber Hughes History 301 Dr. Lassiter November 16, 1999 Equal Responsibility for All: An In-depth Look at Four Prison Camps during WWII Over six million people were either worked to death or murdered in cold blood inside German concentration camps during World War II. This number includes both Jews and non-Jews who died inside the camps, but does not count the many people who were executed in the towns and ghettos. Almost the entire Jewish population of Eastern Europe wa...
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2,076 wordsThroughout Holocaust 6 The Holocaust Throughout history the Jewish people have been scapegoats; whenever something was not going right they were the ones to blame. From Biblical times through to the Shakespearean Era, all the way to the Middle East Crisis and the creation of Israel, the Jews have been persecuted and blamed for the problems of the world. The most horrifying account of Jewish persecution is the holocaust, which took place in Europe from 1933 to 1945 when Adolf Hitler tried to elim...
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4,870 wordsINTRODUCTION The HolocaustHolocaus INTRODUCTION The Holocaust is the most horrifying crime against humanity of all times. " Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme. " One of his main methods of " doing away" with these " undesirable" was through the use of concentration camp...
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4,651 wordsHolocaust (1) INTRODUCTION The Holocaust is the most horrifying crime against humanity of all times. Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme. One of his main methods of doing away with these undesirable was through the use of concentration camps. In January 1941, in a meeting with his top officials the f...
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1,428 wordsIs taking a person? s life because of religious persuasion justified? Hitler thought so; he had a dream of ruling the world and those who didn? t fit his plans were disposed of. Hitler? s plan was to make a world of blonde-haired blue-eyed Germans. He started building concentration camps throughout Germany and the Reich during the late nineteen thirties. At first concentration camps were for the political prisoners, criminals, and security risks. He began to abolish the Jewish majority and other...
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