Concentration Camps During The Holocaust

Concentration camps have been made since before anyone could remember, but during the holocaust, the Nazis created camps that were made to kill innocent people. The Conditions of the concentration camps alone killed thousands of people if the crematorium or gas chambers didn’t first. The Nazis, who executed millions of innocent people, are monsters because the camps had terrible conditions, they inhumanely killed people in gas chambers, and burned a profusion of innocent people’s bodies in the crematorium.
The Nazi party of Germany killed the “inferior” races in a variety of ways, including killing the inferiors in Gas chambers. German scientists discovered that the Nazi party strongly believed in Darwinism. “Hitler believed that the human …show more content…
People had the opportunity to be in labor camps and work as slaves under disgustingly awful conditions. Many died from disease, malnutrition, and physical abuse in the camps. These camps were called concentration camps. The camps made for mass killing were the extermination camps. “Prisoners were forced to march long distances in bitter cold, with little or no food, water, or rest. Those who could not keep up were shot(USHMM).” These were called death marches because many people would die during these marches. The death marches could take hours and were thirty-five miles long. Prisoners were forced out of camps towards the end of the year because the Allied forces started to close in on camps and Germany did not want them to get ahold of their prisoners. Tens of thousands of prisoners were taken out of camps to go on these death marches. This is just one example of the Nazis treating the prisoners like they are nothing. Anyone not fit for the march died because they could not keep up with the fast pace of the march. More than 15,000 people died on the death marches from Auschwitz alone. If the prisoners were able to keep up, it was likely they would still die because they were not getting the basic things they need like water and rest. Prisoners were given rations to eat so they can survive. The rations were meager, but they were enough for the prisoners to survive. As time went on and more prisoners arrived at camps, the rations were spread out among more people meaning everyone got less food. After a couple years of a growing camp, people started to starve and die of malnutrition. “Sanitary conditions in the camp had been primitive from the outset, but worsened still following the outbreak of war(USHMM).” Many prisoners at concentration camps would die from either exhaustion, malnutrition, exposure, abuse, and lack of medical care. These people were treated like

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