The Pros Of Holocaust Concentration Camps

Intro- During the Holocaust concentration camps were created in an attempt to try and kill out the entire race of Jews. The officers of the concentration camps would be popular for dehumanizing its prisoners. The officers of the camps treated the prisoners like they were worthless and did many experiments on ways to kill the prisoners. German officers used many unthinkable, inhumane tactics to murder thousands of prisoners a day. There were many ways that german officers murdered the prisoners of the concentration camps, but the three main ways that were used was crematoriums, the starving of the prisoners, and the gas chambers.

BP1- The Nazis would use crematoriums to kill and burn the dead corpses in the concentration camps. Each concentration …show more content…
The prisoners did not acquire any milk, fruit or water to drink. It wasn't until after morning roll call that the prisoners would get their morning “meal”. They would get coffee or herbal tea and a piece of bread. For lunch the prisoners would get watery soup and if they were lucky they might have found a something at the bottom of the soup like a potato peel. In the evening the prisoners may have been given a small piece of black bread. For supper the prisoners would get three hundred grams of bread served with twenty five grams of either sausage, margarine, a tablespoon of marmalade, or cheese. The bread was supposed to last them until the morning after, but the starving prisoners would usually eat the whole portion that they were given at one time. They would even sometimes steal other prisoners ration of food too. The SS officers only gave the prisoners enough food to keep them alive. They didn't give them the proper amount of nutrients to carry out the heavy manual work that they were given. The combination between not having enough nutrients and the hard labor contributed to the destruction of the prisoners. Because the prisoners worked so hard and did not have enough food or nutrients they gradually used up their stores of fat muscle mass and the tissues of the internal organs. This led to starvation illnesses which was the cause of many deaths in the …show more content…
Gas chambers were machines that were used for killing humans with poisonous gas. They were sealed chambers in which poisonous gas was poured into a hole at the top of the chamber with intentions of killing all of those who were in it. The officers wanted to find the most effective chemical agent and also to work out the proper method to kill several hundred prisoners at one time. The most commonly used gas was zyklon b and hydrogen cyanide however carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide were frequently used as well. The officers would use these gases because they would cause death almost immediately. If prisoners were too young, old, weak, or sick they were usually the first to be sent to the gas chambers upon arrival or choses to be sent there during the first few selections. There would also be prisoners who were selected from the camp ¨hospitals¨ that were to sick to do work to be sent to the gas chambers. The gas chambers in the concentration camps would be disguised as showers or disinfection rooms. They would give the prisoners towels and tell them that they were being sent to take showers or going to be disinfected to lure them into the gas chambers. They would stuff up to 2,000 naked prisoners in a room, pump out the air and pour in the poisonous gas. The death of the prisoners took up to 3 to 23 minutes. The SS officers would watch the prisoners