Nazism’s star symbols of the Final Solution of the Jewish question or concentration camps, respectively, have global meaning and importance. They were employed by the Nazi during the World War II in order to annihilate millions of harmless individuals. Germany Berlin the capital of Germany had several concentration camps. The goal of this article will be to discuss camps and what exactly their purpose and importance is for people to understand the wickedness that happened during those times.
1. Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp:
Only 35 kilometers north of the German capital city of Berlin, Sachsenhausen was one of the largest concentration camps during the Nazi regime. It opened in 1936 and other camps were modelled on it. Sachsenhausen was meant for political prisoners who spoke against the Nazi party, intelligentsia, and thecommunists.
Within it confined people subjected them to inhumane treatment, made them to work under strenuous pressures and perpetually committed heinous acts of terrorism on them. Most of them starved to death, died of disease, or were killed. It was also a training centre for other ss officers that would be transferred to other camps in the rest of the exterminated territories.
2. Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women:
Ravensbrück, situated some 90 kilometers north of Berlin, was the largest women’s concentration camp of World War II. The camp was set up in 1939 and initiated its activity up to the days of the liberation in 1945. The camp was mainly to incarcerate and kill females political prisoners, partisans, and civilians of various ages, occupations, and origins.
The worst part of the concentration camp in Ravensbrück was extremely unbearable situation that involved cramped accommodation, medical experiments, and torture of the inmates. Most of them were married off and forced to work in nearby factories or on agricultural fields, they were physically and sexually abused.
3. Oranienburg Concentration Camp:
The first concentration camp was Oranienburg located thirty-five kilometers east of Berlin. It was applied as an experimental camp as well as for training SS officers who would otherwise be posted to other concentration facilities. Originally prisoners of conscience or the enemies of the state were detained in Oranienburg, along with those who were stigmatized as “politically unreliable” by the government.
prisoners suffered and perished under terrible living conditions, worked forcibly, and in constant danger of forceful assault in Oranienburg. Further in the years the camp was luckily extended and became the main platform for launching the “Euthanasia program” in which the Nazis systematically gassed the individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
4. Dachau Concentration Camp:
However, Dachau, which is 16 kilometers away from Munich, was also an important unit of the Nazi concentration camp. It was an archetypical model of a concentration camp and was mainly intended for political prisoners, religious enemies, and racially substandard by Nazis.
At Dachau concentration camp prisoners experienced forced labor, starvation and medical experimentation. Prisons of this type were not only a vivid example of the suffering of Holocaust victims but also the prototype of subsequent concentration camps.
Conclusion:
Concentration camps located in Berlin furnished Americans with the knowledge of the ruthlessness of the Nazis. They were concentrations camps – a place of suffering, persecution and genocide, where millions of people perished behind the Barbed Wire. We must acknowledge these facts and bring to mind this dark period in our history to pay tribute to the victims and to remind ourselves, over and over again, of the need for tolerance and respect for every person.
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