pages 2-5 Death Camps page 6 Buchenwald pages 7-11

Conclusion page 12-13 Endnotes pages 14-15 Bibliography

horrifying crime against humanity of all times. "Hitler, in an

attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all

mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, 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 "undesirables"

was through the use of concentration camps. "In January

1941, in a meeting with his top officials, the 'final solution'

was decided". The Jewish population was to be eliminated.

In this paper I will discuss concentration camps with a

detailed description of the worst one prior to World War II,

concentration camps were set up in 1933. In the early days

of Hitler's regime, concentration camps were places that held

people in protective custody. Victims for protective custody

included those who were either physically or mentally ill,

gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, Jews and anyone

existence. When the American troops arrived on April 11,

and if they couldn't they would die. In July 1937, the Nazis

began building Buchenwald. It officially opened on July 19,

circumstances. One third of all the Jews in the world were

expressed negative feelings about the government, if they

From the new-comers, 244 died in their first month of

stole another's bread, he wasn't reported to the SS. the

people from many nations were imprisioned in Buchenwald,

prisoners in many ways. Next to the shooting chambers,

began building it -On Jan. 1945, tens of thousands of

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