The Final Solution
Life in a Concentration Camp
Camp Overview
Nazi concentration camps which started with Dachau in 1933 and numbered over 40,000 by the end of the war were used for prisoners taken by the Nazis during the war and also people in German society that they found undesirable mostly the Jews. Jews were the most persecuted of any other race and religion in the camps. They were given the worst jobs and sent to death camps where they were killed in the gas chambers. The killing of the Jews was part of Hitlers plan to rid Germany of all impure people.
Roll Call
Every Morning Every prisoner, Even those who had died During the night prior, were put into rows of 10 and were counted. Any mistake meant that the process had to start over and there would be punishments. Many people became ill during this time and died in the following days some were so weak that they died during roll call.
Punishment
This man was forced to stand at attention for hours until fainting. Once he fainted a member of the SS would kill the man as he laid their passed out.
Video
In the video Goldkind talks about the treatment of new prisoners mostly children and sick people. She talks of how mothers would fight for their children and when the children were taken by the Germans they were just throwing them into trucks not caring what happened to them.
Works cited
"Just a Normal Day in the Camps." Jewishgen. Jewishgen, n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.
"Daily Life in the Concentration Camps." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.