The holocaust
...Gate to Hell Auschwitz on Jan 20, 1942 in a suburb of Berlin fifteen Nazis made plans for the final solution seven years after the Nuremberg laws were passed. Jews were to be placed in ghetto’s. Fenced off parts of towns and cities where they would be kept until they were deported to concentration camps in Eastern Europe. At these concentration camps the healthy would work and the sick would be killed. The Webster Dictionary defines a concentration camp as a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined usually under harsh conditions. However this definition is unlike any concentration camp during the Holocaust. According to the website remember Upon arriving Upon arrival at a camp, the inmates were usually stripped of all their valuables and clothes. They were then shorn of body hair, disinfected, given a shower, and issued a striped prison uniform without regard to size. Each step of the process was designed to dehumanize the prisoners, both physically and emotionally. The Jews were forced to live in unimaginable living conditions. They were forced to work 10-14 hour shifts most of which were either in sub-zero temperatures or in severe heat. If a Jew refused an order or did not work then they were shot. One of the most infamous concentration camps of the Holocaust was Birkena-Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a death camp; a factory that pumped dead corpses. According to the website Gate to Hell it is estimated that at Auschwitz peak 8,000 people were being exterminated a day. And overall there are estimates as high as 3 million people being exterminated. However not only were prisoners of Auschwitz killed, German doctors also performed inhumane medical experiments. These experiments included placing patients in pressure chambers, testing patients with various drugs, castration, exposing patients to different stimuli such as extreme temperatures. And in many of the experim...