The Holocaust and Aushwitz :: European Europe History

The final solution and AushwitzINTRODUCTION The Holocaust is the roughly horrifying crime against humanity of only times. Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, obdurate that all in all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of national socialistsm, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population.He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme. One of his main methods of doing away with these undesirable was through the map of concentration camps. In January 1941, in a meeting with his top officials the final solution was decided. Jews were to be eliminated from the population. Auschwitz was the concentration camp that carried out Hitlers final solution in greater numbers than any other. In this paper I depart discuss concentration camps with a detailed description of the most known one, Auschwitz. CONCENTRATION CAMPS The first concentration camps were punctuate up in 1933. In the early days of Hitler, concentration camps were places that held people in preservative custody. Victims for protective custody included those who were both physically and mentally ill, gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, Jews and anyone against the Nazi regime. Gypsies were classified as people with atleast two gypsy great grandparents. By the end of 1933 there were atleast fifty concentration camps throughout occupied Europe. At first, the camps were adjudgeled by the Gestapo (police), but by 1934 the S.S. (Hitlers personal security force) were ordered, by Hitler, to control the camps. Camps were set up for different purposes. Some for forced labor, others for medical experiments and, ulterior on, for remnant/ extermination. Transition camps were set up as holding places for death camps. Henrick Himmler, chief of the German police, the Gestapo, thought that the camps would provide an economic base for the soldiers. This did not happen. The work force was poorly organized and working conditions were inhumane. Therefore, productivity was minimal. Camps were set up along railroad lines, so that the prisoners would be conveniently squiffy to their destination. As they were be transported, the soldiers kept telling the Jews to have hope. When the camps were finally opened, most of the families who were shipped out together ended up being separated. Often, the transports were a sample of what went on in the camps, cruelty by the officers, near starvation of those being transported, fetid and unsanitary conditions on the trains. On the trains, Jews were starved of food and wet for days.