In the eyes of the Nazis, the deaf were of "minor value". The assumption that deafness was a "hereditary disease" lead to forced sterilization. Breitenau was a Nazi education and labor camp established in June 1933 in Germany. It was located in Guxhagen, ca. 15 km south of Kassel and was built around the Breitenau monastery.
By the end of 1933, 11,000 people were arrested and placed in concentration camps. Only a few of them were brought to Breitenau. After the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring was made, Breitenau officials began to test prisoners for hereditary diseases. Many of the prisoners who were found to have hereditary diseases were often transported to euthanasia killing centers or kept at Breitenau under penalty of being forcibly sterilized.
Breitenau has a somewhat complicated history as a camp. Please see the link.
they were kept in a small enclosed room where there was no heating they were starved and only had 10% of calories out of 200 they were stripped in order to sell clothes.
The purpose of a death camp was when Jews were sent for mass murdering, (genocide). This is not the same as a concentration camp, only because it was where political prisoners were confined, usually under harsh conditions and the camps functioned as prisons and centers of forced labor.
A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The prisoners there are kept under harsh and barely livable conditions and are detained and confined.Spelt concentration camp. It was a place that the German people put Jews. They did not like Jews. They would not feed them very much and then they would kill them. Watch "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas" to find out more.
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Breitenau has a somewhat complicated history as a camp. Please see the link.
dirty horible cold and harsh.
Yes, but it was unusual in that it was also a (very harsh) concentration camp. Please see the related question.
they were kept in a small enclosed room where there was no heating they were starved and only had 10% of calories out of 200 they were stripped in order to sell clothes.
The purpose of a death camp was when Jews were sent for mass murdering, (genocide). This is not the same as a concentration camp, only because it was where political prisoners were confined, usually under harsh conditions and the camps functioned as prisons and centers of forced labor.
Conditions at Majdanek were appalling. The camp had two sections: one was a very harsh concentration camp. The SS guards sometimes went on killing sprees, murdering prisoners with wooden clubs and other blunt instruments; they also tortured prisoners for their amusement. The other section of Majdanek was an extermination camp.
A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The prisoners there are kept under harsh and barely livable conditions and are detained and confined.Spelt concentration camp. It was a place that the German people put Jews. They did not like Jews. They would not feed them very much and then they would kill them. Watch "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas" to find out more.
The life was harsh, very hard, you could think of an army camp overworking you. If you watch war movies, you might be able to see a concentration camp, you know, with the sticks between the arms?
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As time progressed conditions worsened.
Shmuel's appearance is changing as he is becoming more gaunt and pale due to the harsh conditions in the concentration camp. He is losing weight rapidly and his eyes are appearing sunken from malnutrition and exhaustion.
Juliek was able to retain his violin in the camp because music was a source of solace and comfort for him during the difficult times in the concentration camp. Despite the harsh conditions, he found ways to hold on to his violin as a symbol of hope and resilience.