The Holocaust was a horrible time. Part of this tragedy was the concentration camps. During the 1930s and 1940s, German Nazi leaders established 22 concentration camps where Jews, but also along with Gypsies, homosexuals, Communists, Slav, and others who were judged undesirable were imprisoned...

In the beginning the Jews were murdered in mass shootings on the Russian front. This method of extermination was very difficult on the soldiers, and far to public to the civilians. This was then the beginning. In 1941 for the plan to carry out their mass killing of the Jews at Auschwitz. ...

Adolph Hitler had a vision for Germany -- a vision that included only white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed people. Hitler needed to eliminate all Jews from the conqurered nations of Europe to perfect this. How did he carry this out? It started with hard labor camps and putting the Jewish into the Gh...

The 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 mur...