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An In-depth Look at Four Prison Camps during WWIIOver 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 was murdered during this war. Murdered alongside the Jews were political prisoners, homosexuals, gypsies and other minority groups. The Jews, however, were the only group singled out for absolute extermination (Chatel and Feree 6). Although many of the concentration camps and sub-camps were started for purposes other than the annihilation of minority groups, without exception, every camp contributed to the millions of dead left after the war. The first concentration camp was started on March 22, 1933, at Dachau. "The initial decision to open concentration camps was made by Herman Goering, the minister of Prussia" (Chatel and Feree 1). In fact, Dachau's first prisoners were not Jews. They were "political prisoners (e.g. Communists or Social Dem
"The prisoners were nationals of neutral countries" (186). In some ways the people who were brought to the death camps were actually treated better. At first, it took the Germans several hours to exterminate all of the new prisoners, but once they fine-tuned their skills, they managed to cut their time to only one or two hours (Arad 1484). Although the stench of burning flesh and black smoke poured almost non-stop from the chimneys of the crematoriums, they could still not keep up with the dead. They were not forced to work, had better living conditions, and were not beaten. All death numbers have to be estimated from the camps because there are no certain records of how many people were killed by the Germans. I did that for two and a half years. Most victims, however, were killed within their first few hours at the camp(3). The "special camp" was for the 2,400 "Jews who had papers. The camp was then closed and the many wood buildings were quickly burned down. ] usually four inmates at a time" (95). "This was an unreal thing; this beautiful music," says Rachel Piuti, who came to Auschwitz in 1944. So, in a broad sense, not only is every single concentration camp equally responsible for the massive genocide that occurred during this war, but the world as a whole is to blame. Many prisoners died from exposure to the climate, horrible sanitary conditions and repeated beatings. When the camp began in 1942, there were only three crematoriums.
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