By:

Bianca Barra
Pablo Soto-Luque
Matas Santibez
Introduction
A concentration camp is a large
detention center applied to political
opponents and ethnic or religious
groups, persons of a particular sexual
orientation and also prisioners of war.
During World War II many concentration
camps were built by the axis or allies,
however on the side of Nazi Germany
labor, camps and extermination camps
were created in order to eliminate the
Jews.
Power and chaos
- During this early period, hundreds of camps
were set up across Germany and run by
different Nazi and state organizations. There
was no central coordination. Each camp was
different. Some were called concentration
camps, but other terms were used too.

- Most of these early camps were soon closed
down, often only weeks after they had
opened. Many believed they were no more
than a temporary phenomenon.

- This was not to be the case.
Prisioners

Most prisoners arrested when the
Nazis first came to power were
released after just a few months. The
majority were German and male.
During the early years, Jews were in a
small minority. But following the
November 1938 pogrom, around
26,000 Jewish men were sent to
Dachau, Buchenwald and
Sachsenhausen (most importants
concentration camps), almost doubling
the concentration camp prisoner
population.
Prisioners
Most of these prisoners were released
after weeks of brutal abuse, providing
they would emigrate. From the mid-
1930s, the Nazis sent to camps more
than 10,000 social outsiders in their
attempt to remodel society. These
included the homeless, beggars,
prostitutes, the work-shy, alcoholics,
homosexual men and petty criminals.
Once inside the camp, prisoners were
identified through a serial number and
badges which were sewn to the left
breast of the jacket and the trouser leg.
The Nazis conducted mass arrests of Jewish
men and imprisioned them in camps for short
periods. Special Teams called Units of the
skull guarding the fields, and competed with
each other by cruelty.
Concentration camp prisioner
numbers
3800
4761
7750
24000
50000
21400
Summer 1935
1 November 1936
30 December 1937
30 June 1938
Mid-November 1938
1 September 1939
Was all forced labor the
same?
There were other forms of
forced labor besides that for
concentration camp
prisoners.
there were work camps for
POWs and for regular
workers who broke work
rules.
The Jewish ghettos also
were forced into labor,
usually more
manufacturing-type labor
The Germans even
reclassified many ghettos
as forced labor camps
Prisoners of civilian police
detention centers, troubled
German youth, and even
ethnic Germans waiting for
resettlement were forced to
work

During World War II the medical
experiments conducted on prisioners,
with incendiary bombs, poison,
mustard gas, sea water, sterilization,
etc. were a symbolism of dementia
and cruelty in these concentration
camps.
Gates to hell, death or
concentration camps in Germany
-Auschwitz

-Sabibor

-Treblinka

-Belzec

-Bergen-
Belsen
Auschwitz
I It was founded on January 20, 1940.
It was used to intern members of Polish
intellectuals and resistance. Also Soviet
prisioners were taken, antisocial,
homosexuals, gypsies and Jews.
II There were hundreds and
thousands of Jews locked, also many
deportees and Gypsies were executed
there.
The aim of the camps was not having
prisioners, if not the extermination of
them.
It had 4 cremetarios gassing (2.500
prisioners per shift)
Example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBIT
JiR75tg
Conclusion
The concentrations camps can be
defined as apathy, suffering and loss
of dignity, as people who lived day to
day slaughter of thousands of human
beings allowed them to experience
negative and very fatal consequences
for our existence.
The concentration camps were the
horror of the Jewish people, since in
this case the most affected people
were in the period of Nazi Germany.