...Despite all that we know about the Holocaust and death camps, Dachau was never a death camp like Auschwitz. ¨ Dachau - The significances of the name will never be erased from Germany history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.¨ (This quote was from Eugen Kogon a historian and also a survivor of the holocaust.) Hundreds of thousands of people died at Dachau not only from gas chambers but also by getting shot, diseases and starvation. The Dachau concentration camp was established in March 1933. It was the first regular concentration established by the National Socialist ( Nazi ) government. During the first year, the camp held 4,800 prisoners. The number of jewish prisoners at Dachau rose....
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...were performed without any anesthetic. These are just a couple general things that happened during the Holocaust. There are so many things that happened in this time period that are impossible to imagine or just are too horrible to think about. The things about the Holocaust that I find the most unnerving are the torture and pain they put the “inferiors” through. The two main topics I feel are most serious or crucial are the medical experiments and their results and reactions on the patients. Also, the different camps, their strong points and general methods for killing used there. There are three camps that are familiar to me and I hear mentioned the most. They are Dachau, Treblinka, and of course, Auschwitz. The doctor who was most infamous for carrying out horrible experiments was Mengele. Dachau, Treblinka, and Auschwitz were three of the six concentration camps that were used for execution of Jews and other groups considered inferior. At Treblinka, 700,000 to over...
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...Dachau In 1939, the Holocaust began and over 6 million Jews were killed. The Holocaust was a time period during WWII that the Germans wanted to go and kill off the entire Jewish population in Europe. It wasn’t only Jews who were discriminated against. Many other races and belief groups were also killed and tortured. At first, killing Jews was not the plan; they just used them as a scapegoat and wanted to lock them up to put them to work. Later they made concentration camps and one of these was named Dachau. At the time of the Liberation, soldier of America had to witness unbearable, awful conditions. Piles of dead bodies lay on the ground. Many survivors had nowhere to go and couldn’t look past the Holocaust. In Dachau, the conditions seem to be the most inhabitable, disgusting, and insanitary of the camps. In Dachau there were hundreds of dead bodies decomposing beneath your feet. This was a common sight around the camp. Some of the bodies had only been dead for less than a day. The camp was also infested with disease. Multiple reports of typhus, lice, and other diseases were reported on camp grounds. The barracks generally had no floor and were commonly were very cold. People were forced to lie on the floor....
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...Germany larger and fill it with what he considered a “perfect people”. These perfect people were those of blonde hair and blue eyes, which ironically enough, Hitler lacked. This course of action is now commonly known as The Holocaust. These perfect people also had to be pure, that means that no homosexuals, gypsies, nor Jews would be living in the land controlled by Germany. To achieve this goal, Hitler and the rest of Nazi Germany, created concentration and extermination camps to put the people that did not meet the requirement of being a perfect people. Two of these camps were named Auschwitz, which is in present day Poland, and Dachau, near Munich. The Holocaust 3 As referred to earlier, there were two different types of camps created by the Nazis. The first one is a concentration or work camp. The first camp, Dachau, was created on March of 1933 and is classified as a Class I camp. Many famous, high-level political opponents of the Nazi government were held here until the end of the war. These camps were primarily to incarcerate communists, social Democrats, trade union leaders, spies, resistance fighters, religious dissidents, common criminals, Gypsy men, homosexuals, asocials, and anyone else who...
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...Thesis: By examining Jack Overduin’s “Faith and Victory in Dachau”, Corrie Ten Boom’s “The Hiding Place”, and Eli Wiesel’s “Night”, it is clear that both documents present differing perspectives on the theme of providence. While both Jack and Corrie realize that both the good and bad times are in God’s hands, Eli doubts God’s existence in the bad times, and believes the desirable times arise from fate or chance. I. Introduction: (maybe use the Heidelberg Catechism Lord’s Day 10 about providence) II. How Providence is viewed when things go well. (During the favourable times, Jack Overduin and Corrie Ten Boom thank God for His blessings and care over them while Eli believes he is just getting lucky.) A. “Faith and Victory in Dachau” 1. Pg. 193 “Again and again, we compared our lives with what they had been only a few weeks before. It was a miracle of His mercy!” 2. Pg. 154 “ In His eternal wisdom God gave each of us the grace that we needed, The one received the grace to continue to live in Dachau’s torment without succumbing spiritually and morally, and the other received the grace to die.” 3. Pg. 209 “The S.S guards ate with us. What a difference! They had a dry piece of army bread, while we had delicious sandwiches made with homemade bread form our parcels. Usually, we also had cake and cookies and several kinds of fruit. A strange world...
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...Holocaust and Internment Camps “Did the United States put its own citizens in concentration camps during WWII?” by Jane McGrath is an article about the United States internment camps during World War II. “Concentration Camps,” by the United Holocaust Memorial Museum is an article about the birth, spread and result of concentration camps in Europe during World War II. While both articles are about camps that restrict the freedom of the inhabitants, the two articles and topic, people, places, and events are completely different. Jane McGrath’s article was written about internment camps and their effects. McGrath wrote about the Japanese, the majority of the people were forced to leave their homes and relocate to a camp somewhere in the Western...
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...I try and crack uncle Günter about my dad. “Son, if you knew you would tear the whole world down.” He said. “ Genau wie dein Vater.” That last sentence makes me freeze in my cold, hard, wooden shoes. Just like your father. Okay, tell me that wasn't weird. “Hey, uncle Günter, what did you mean by that?” “In due time boy.” He says. Dachau is the oldest concentration camp the Nazis have used in this nightmare. This is a work camp but, not necessarily a death camp. They mainly just kinda torture us mentality. People do die though. Lots. People also seemed to get transferred often....
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...as a scapegoat and told all Germany that Jewish people were responsible for all their problems. They captured all the Jews, put them into concentration camps and then killed all of them, either by gas chamber, shootings and burned them all approximately 100's of thousands of Jews were victims. the liberation of Dachau, the first concentration camp the Nazis built and one of the last to be liberated. Although it was not one of the six death camps created specifically for mass murder, many thousands of people died there during the Third Reich. African-American soldiers from Headquarters and Services Co. of 183rd Engineers Combat Battalion, Third Army arrived at Buchenwald on April 17, 1945, too late to be given the honor of being liberators of Buchenwald. Among these soldiers was Leon Bass. Both Dr. Leon Bass and William A. Scott, III have been on the lecture circuit since 1968, telling their story of how black soldiers in the segregated U.S. Army “liberated” Buchenwald. Dr. Bass appeared in the Academy Award-nominated Documentary film entitled Liberators, Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II, which claimed that black troops liberated not only Buchenwald, but also Dachau. Those who liberated experienced a complete massacre. The things that they viewed are unimaginable and could change someone's life...
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...The freezing/hypothermia experiments were conducted for the Nazi high command to simulate the conditions the armies suffered on the Eastern Front, as the German forces were ill-prepared for the cold weather they encountered. Many experiments were conducted on captured Russian troops; the Nazis wondered whether their genetics gave them better resistance to the cold. The main places to do these were Dachau and Auschwitz. Approximately 100 people are reported to have died as a result of these experiments. Malaria experiments From about February 1942 to about April 1945, experiments were conducted at the Dachau concentration camp in order to investigate immunization for treatment of malaria. Healthy inmates were infected by mosquitoes or by injections of extracts of the mucous glands of female mosquitoes. After contracting the disease, the subjects were treated with various drugs to test their relative efficiency. Over 1,200 people were used in these experiments and more than half died as a result. Immunization experiments At the German concentration camps of Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Natzweiler, Buchenwald, and Neuengamme, scientists tested immunization compounds and serums for the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases, including malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and infectious hepatitis. Mustard gas experiments At various times between September 1939 and April 1945, many experiments were conducted at Sachsenhausen, Natzweiler, and...
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...known as the National Socialist German Worker's Party, planned to murder the Jewish people. They called this plot, “the final solution.” The Holocaust was a devastating time during World War Two,that changed the lives of many people all over the world. The name holocaust comes from the Greek word “holokauston”, meaning sacrifice from fire. The holocaust killed many groups of people such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled for persecution, but mostly the Jews. When Hitler first gained power, he formed an advanced police and military force to smother anyone who criticized his authority. With this force, Hitler developed the first concentration camp, Dachau. A concentration camp was used to work and starve prisoners to death. Later Dachau became a huge concentration camp to exterminate Jews. Hitler made life miserable for Jews. On April of 1933, the Nazis initiated by boycotting all Jewish ran businesses. The Nuremberg Laws issued in September of 1935, made it so Jews were excluded from most public life. The law included exposing the German Jews of their citizenship, and outlawed marriages and extramarital sex between Jews and Germans. This law was the start of all legal standards for additional anti-Jewish legislation. After the Nuremberg Laws, many new laws against Jews were created. These laws kept Jews away from parks, fired them from civil service jobs, forced Jews to register their property, and prohibited...
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...Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale—And Here My Troubles Began The Holocaust was one of the worst epidemics in the entire world. Many people were killed, more importantly the Jewish community, with millions dead. Families were torn and never mended. Among these families were the Spiegleman’s. Art Spiegleman was the son in the family who wrote about his father’s experience in the Holocaust. Maus I and Maus II are his two works of art that share historical information and his personal struggle. Within Maus II, Art talks about the start of his father’s struggles and what will be the beginning of a life changing event. The Holocaust affected victims just as the American Great Depression did its victims. This chapter starts out with Vladek continuously counting his pills, and then Artie and Francoise are staying with him just for a little since Mala left. Vladek keeps everything; he doesn’t want to get rid of anything, even crumbs. In chapter three, page 78 of Maus II, he is trying to give Artie a piece of fruitcake, and Artie refuses, and says he isn’t hungry. Vladek then tells Artie, “So, fine. I can pack the fruitcake in with the cereal for you to take home,” then Artie refuses to let Vladek give him the food because he doesn’t want it. Vladek then says, “I cannot forget it…ever since Hitler I don’t like to throw out even a crumb.” This shows that Vladek is still afraid to get rid of anything, because he is still in fear of the past. They begin talking more about Auschwitz, and how in...
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...1933 for confinement of opponents of the Nazi Party. The supposed opposition soon included all Jews, Gypsies, and certain other groups. By 1939 there were six camps: Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Flossenburg, and Ravensbruck. It all started in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany. Adolf Hitler was a very strong minded individual that liked everything to go his way, and for what he believed in. Germany was already a very racial country, and judged people strongly on their religious beliefs, and their political communities. The Nazis, also known as the National Socialist German Worker's Party, planned to murder the Jewish people. They called this plot, "the final solution." The Holocaust was a devastating time during World War Two,that changed the lives of many people all over the world. The name holocaust comes from the Greek word "holokauston", meaning sacrifice from fire. The holocaust killed many groups of people such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, the disabled for persecution, but mostly the Jews. When Hitler first gained power, he formed an advanced police and military force to smother anyone who criticized his authority. With this force, Hitler developed the first concentration camp, Dachau. A concentration camp was used to work and starve prisoners to death. Later Dachau became a huge concentration camp to exterminate Jews. Hitler made life miserable for Jews. In April of 1933, the Nazis initiated by boycotting all Jewish ran businesses...
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...different belief from everyone else (Allen 7). They were also designed to hold people for days, months, and some even years (Allen 72). Ghettos were eventually destroyed after the liberation because the Nazis did not want to get charged with murder of the Jews and did not want to get caught. Adolf Hitler gathered a group, called the Nazis, to group up the Jews so they can be transferred in concentration camps (Macknay 5). On the journeys of being transferred, Jews were compacted in a train car with no food, fluids, or restrooms for three to ten days (Macknay 17). Hitler was against Jews, even though he was half Jewish, and that is why he started the concentration camps. In 1933 the first concentration camp was started which was called Dachau. Dachau was opened to hold many political leaders and killed over 31 thousand people (Mackay 7). Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps which held 10 thousand people and yet only 255 died from mistreatment at the camp (Ushmm Buchenwald). The Jews were forced to work to death at the camps or they would die from getting shot, abuse, and more cruel and harsh ways to die (Ushmm Concentration Camps). They would be selected from the first day they arrived at the camp. Women and children would mostly arrive, undress, and go into the gas chambers. Pregnant women were tested on as well as the sick and twins. They were tested to see what would kill the jews fastest and with the largest quantities. With twins, however, they tested on some...
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...medical experiments on Jews, gypsies, and political prisoners. These experiments on thousands of concentration camp prisoners were done without their consent. Unethical medical experimentation carried out during the Third Reich may be divided into three categories. The first category consists of experiments aimed at facilitating the survival of Axis military personnel. In Dachau, physicians from the German air force and from the German Experimental Institution for Aviation conducted high-altitude experiments, using a low-pressure chamber, to determine the maximum altitude from which crews of damaged aircraft could parachute to safety. Scientists there carried out so-called freezing experiments using prisoners to find an effective treatment for hypothermia. They also used prisoners to test various methods of making seawater drinkable. The second category of experimentation aimed at developing and testing pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for injuries and illnesses which German military and occupation personnel encountered in the field. At the German concentration camps of Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Natzweiler, Buchenwald, and Neuengamme, scientists tested immunization compounds and sera for the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases, including malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and infectious hepatitis. The Ravensbrueck camp was the site of bone-grafting experiments and experiments to test the efficacy of newly developed sulfa (sulfanilamide)...
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...However, during this time it was deemed necessary to win the war and if that meant using prisoners as test subjects, that's what we had to do. The most notorious country known for its human experimentation and gross disregard for human life in the early 20th century is Germany. Many experiments that were performed on unwilling participants took place in the concentration camps during WWII. For example an experiment called the Sea Water Experiment, was conducted from from July 1944 to September 1944 at Dachau concentration camp. The study was intended to determine the viability of making sea water drinkable. Approximately 90 Gypsies were forced to drink only seawater which caused many to perish. It was noted that the gypsies were so dehydrated that they began licking floors after they had been mopped just to get a drop some...
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