Dachau

Specific Purpose: to inform my audience about the concentration camp Dachau.

Organizational pattern: Chronological

Imagine being locked inside of a fence and tortured in the worst possible ways. Think about going for days with no food and being ecstatic when you were finally given a piece of bread. Can you picture what is was like to have everything stripped from you, everything including your hair? That’s exactly what happened to the prisoners in the concentration camp Dachau. Today I will be telling you about the terrible happenings that occurred at Dachau. The people there weren’t even considered human, they were just a number tatooed on their arms. This was a place no one should have had to go. I am able to tell you about this topic because I have actually been to Dachau and I’ve also done research. I will be telling you today what a concentration camp is, what kind of people were sent there, the treatment the people received, and what happened to the bodies after they were killed. To begin I would like to explain first what Dachau was and where it was located.

a. A concentration camp is a prison with barrac

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guards were under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler. The crimes commited through this time were horrible. The two large ovens had a small door at the bottom that was used to empty the ashes. Numbers were tatooed on their arms to replace their names. The camp had thirty two barracks, farm buildings, a courtyard area, electric barbed wire fence, a ditch, and a wall with seven guard towers. The prisoners were murdered in horrible ways. It was moved from its original location and expanded. The ashes were sometimes used as fertilizer for the flower beds that decorated the grounds.

Approximate Word count = 866
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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