Concentration Camp Holocaust Essay

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Concentration camp (holocaust)
Tymir N. Ash-shaheed(First M. Last)
Middletown High School

Holocaust was a genocide during world war 2 in which adolf hitler's nazi germany aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe. Extermination Camps Extermination camps or death camps were camps during World War II between 1933 and 1945.They were built primarily by Nazi Germany.Created to kill millions of people by execution mainly by gassing and extreme work under starvation conditions.

The concentration camps were design for jewish Most prisoners in the early concentration camps were German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and persons accused of "asocial" or socially deviant behavior. These facilities were called “concentration camps” because those imprisoned there were physically “concentrated” in one location. Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager, KZ or KL) throughout the territories it controlled before and during the Second World War. The
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The goods extracted or produced by prisoner labor were sold to the German Reich through SS-owned firms such as the German Earth and Stone Works.
As Germany conquered much of Europe in the years 1939–1941, the SS established a number of new concentration camps to incarcerate increased numbers of political prisoners, resistance groups, and groups deemed racially inferior, such as Jews and Roma (Gypsies). Among these new camps were: Gusen (1939), Neuengamme (1940), Gross-Rosen (1940), Auschwitz (1940), Natzweiler (1940) Stutthof (1942), and Majdanek (February 1943). Stutthof had been a Gestapo Labor Education camp from 1939 to