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Within the Concentration camps not only were there Jewish people but also people of different ethnic backgrounds such as Poles, Soviet Slavs, Prisoners of War, gypsies, disabled people, and homosexuals. Now while most of the common representations of the Holocaust are mainly dealing with the Jews, it is important to note that the afore mentioned prisoners went through the same types of torture and oppression, that the Jews dealt with every day. The reason as to why there were so many different types of persecuted people is because of Hitler’s idea of a person. Hitler believed that to be deemed an actual human being you must have blonde hair, blue eyes, light skin, etc. Therefore anyone who did not have these qualities was seen as a monster or some sort of evil spawn that Hitler’s Army was sent to exterminate. It is also important to mention along with this information about the targeted people of the concentration camps, that while nearly 6 million Jews were killed, another 11 million casualties accounted for the deaths of the other peoples in the camps. (Holocaust Victims)

The actual physical and mental persecution that happened among the prisoners of concentration camps is a true testament to the utter evil of Hitler’s plan, and how it gives you an idea of the way that he viewed the Jewish people. Now while it is not proper at this time to truly delve into the actual horror of the torturing that occurred, it can be stated the basic premises of what went on in the camps. First off a basic example of this torture is that of the cattle cars and how although it was not actual physical beatings, it was in a way a physical sense of torture due to the fact that no one was allowed food or water, and also due to the cold winter temperatures, and the boiling heat in the summer. Within the actual camps themselves there was the most rudimentary form of torture to occur, which in fact was the most horrifying, and that is the gas chambers within the extermination camps. These chambers served only one purpose of killing anyone in them, and that is exactly what they did. The other means of killing prisoners was that by way of a gun, and the many mass shootings that occurred during the ‘selections’ within the camp. These selections were used as an evaluation of the prisoners from which they picked out the weak and killed them. One final example of the truly horrible torture that took place in these camps was the overworking that was forced upon every prisoner in the work camps no matter what their size or age. (Nazi Concentration Camps-)

By Justin Safarik

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