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    of all trajectories.On the topic of the Holocaust, the focus points are the functions of the concentration camps and its survivors.The liberation of these Nazi camps is somewhat overlooked. The photos and the testimonies of the camp liberations allowed for the American people to comprehend the depths of the atrocities that had occurred. Without the witnesses, photos and testimonies the concentration camps wouldn’t have been liberated, if not for the supported evidence from the liberations the American

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    Concentration camps were places where individuals were constricted without a trial. Many prisoners were placed in these camps, due to being: German socialists, gypsies, homosexuals and alleged of social irregular behaviour, known as people having a disability. Conditions were appalling and extremely harsh, where prisoners were required to complete hard-working labour, no matter the circumstances that were faced. In Nazi Germany (1933), and throughout Europe (1938-1945), the Nazi’s regulated the control

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    parents were sent to the Nazi concentration camp. They got uncomfortable staying at the camp so they tried to leave. The parents fought their way out, but the Nazis soldiers killed them; not the kids. They were safe, so they sent the two kids back to the camp. The two kids are German Jews, Leon Weber and Finn Herbert, are trying to escape the camp, but when they saw their parents lying on the ground dead, they realized that they lost them and they’ll have to get past the Nazi soldiers in order for them

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    US Soldiers ' Reaction to Nazi Concentration Camps “When we walked through those gates…1 saw in front of me the walking dead. There they stood. They were skin and bone. They had skeletal faces with deep set eyes. Their heads had been clean shaved. They were holding each other for stability. I couldn’t understand this. I just couldn’t. So I walked around the camp; I wanted to…understand more. I went to a building where they stored body parts from ‘medical experiments’ in jars of formaldehyde. I saw

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    Elias Joshua Angel Victoria The Camps It is truly important to remember what had occurred in labor camps from 1933 to 1939. In Nazi Germany, concentration camps were where people were sent to work. Jews and other groups of people such as gypsies were sent to these camps. If someone was unable to work, they would be killed. The camps in Nazi Germany were cruel, and inhumane because people who were unable to work were killed, many caught deadly diseases, people were marked with wrong symbol, got

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    shouldn’t be considered the same.Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps are not essentially the same thing because of fear and. hate, the U.S. apologizing vs. Germany not, and the treatment of the two camps. Overall, Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were not essentially the same thing. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were not the same because their treatment was totally different. First, in concentration camps, people were being killed every

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    The experimentation on prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps influenced how the world views crimes against humanity. The Nazis did numerous experiments on the prisoners in the concentration camps. Most of them they were forms of torture rather than “experiments”. They tried keeping them secret so the allied troops would not know about them but the allied troops were advancing rather quickly. The Nazis would burn everything to the ground when the allies got to close for comfort. When the allies

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    Nazi concentration camps and Gulags brought together various connections of fellow prisoners, there were men and women, Jews, Germans, Russians, and several other diverse groups of people contained. I will be focusing on female prisoners in both Nazi concentration camps and in the Gulags, identifying particular aspects of living situations in both camps and prisons, and also analyzing women’s perspectives of the circumstances they were forced upon. Women suffered from continuous dehumanizing conditions

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    about the Nazis in her diary. Although, the Americans weren’t much nicer to the Japanese. During the 1940’s these 2 groups of people,the Jews and Japanese-Americans, were being discriminated against. Though for very different reasons. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were not essentially the same thing because Jews weren’t being treated like people, both camps served different purposes, and the Japanese were not being killed like the Jews . First, Nazi concentration camps and Japanese

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    Gentleman was sent to a German concentration camp. Living under the terrible conditions and finding a way to survive every day, Tadeusz Borowski, had many unimaginable experiences that he would soon write about, some in the form of letters and some simply stories of his experiences in the death camps. Throughout his time at the various Nazi concentration camps, Borowski finds that although the Nazi’s are to blame for the violence and horrific things seen and done at the camps, it is also the prisoners

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