The Nazi Camp System

Kevin Butler

 Overall, around 1.2 million jewish victims out of the total 5.6
5.8 million Jews murdered during the final solution died in the
concentration camp (Caplan 162)
There was no typical concentration camp (Caplan 17)
Between 1939 and 1945, six million unarmed and innocent Jewish
civilians men, women and children and babies were murdered
in Nazi controlled Europe, as part of a deliberate policy to
destroy all traces of Jewish life and culture. (Bauer 204)

Timeline of Events
11/11/18 World War I officially ends
04/28/19 League of Nations Founded
06/28/19 Treaty of Versailles signed
07/29/21 Hitler Becomes leader of Nazi Party
07/28/26 Mein Kampf Published
09/14/30 Germans Elect Nazi party
01/30/33 Hitler becomes chancellor of of Germany
03/12/33 First Concentration Camp opened
07/14/33 Nazi party declared only political party in Germany
08/19/34 Hitler becomes Fhrer
03/16/35 Hitler Violates treaty of Versailles
09/15/35 Jews stripped of rights
05/1945

Auschwitz Opened

How Jews Moved Around

Jews lived in the ghetto for up
to three years
Jews moved from the ghetto
to concentration camps

Transportation Of Prisoners
Some trains traveled for many days (Three or Four)
Prisoners where forced into cattle wagons with no place
to sit
Trains arrived daily

Prisoners where moved

from location to location
via trains

No food provided on the train either

Many died along the way

Many trains would unload directly into the camp

Concentration Camps
Arrival
Trains arrived everyday
Men, Women, Children
separated
Told to undress and take a
shower
Given a Hair Cut
Women and Children where
gassed immediately
Men sent to the barracks and
begin work

Everyday Life
Only given thin clothes to live
in no matter the weather
conditions
Prisoners given all types of
jobs
Prisoners worked everyday
Work or be killed on the spot
Every two weeks prisoners
given examinations to
determine if they where fit for
work or not

Punishment
All types of punishment given
for small offenses
Guards encouraged to give
punishments
Stealing extra food called for
death

Camp Conditions (Living Conditions)

Barracks were converted from old Stables or prisons.
Originally meant to hold 40 people some now held hundreds.
Number of people living in one barrack depended on the number
of new arrivals.
Dirt Floors, holes in the walls, no insulation.
Wooden beds topped with straw were common.

Camp Conditions (Food)

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Imitation Coffee

Watered Down Soup

Black Bread

Herbal Tea

Potato peal or Turnip (If one found

scraps of food)

Butter Spread
(Dinner was meant to last till the
next morming)

Camp Conditions (Work)

Men put to work immediately upon

arrival
Work included
Working on Farms
Working in Coal Mines
Camp Crematorium
Weapons Factories
Construction Projects (expanding
the camp)
German Companies to help the war
effort
Cleaning out the gas chamber
Burying the dead

Examples of Work

How I found my recourses

Throughout the process of this project, I pulled my recourses from
many different places. A few of my images came from websites in
which I found information on. Others where pulled from google. I
found my self on YouTube looking for survivor testimonies about life
in the concentration camps. All of my recourses relate to each other
because the help explain the lives the Jewish people lived in the
concentration camps. They also help explain just how crule the Nazi
regime was.

Works Cited
Caplan, Jane, and Nikolaus Wachsmann. Concentration Camps in
Nazi Germany: The New Histories. London: Routledge, 2010. Print.
Bauer, Yehuda, and Nili Keren. A History of the Holocaust. New
York: F. Watts, 1982. Print.
"The History Place - World War II in Europe Timeline." The History
Place - World War II in Europe Timeline. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar.
2016.
"Just a Normal Day in the Camps." N.p., n.d. Web.
"Deportation and Transportation." Deportation and Transport to
Concentration Camps. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.

Works Cited
"The Liberation of Auschwitz." United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, n.d. Web. 22 Mar.
2016.
"Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Daily Life in the Concentration
Camps."YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ges-Od4tR0I>.
"Survivor Testimony About Treblinka Death Camp." YouTube. YouTube,
n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogmBWA9Y7Bk#t=18.041361>.
"Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Slave Labor in the Concentration
Camps."YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od3IYMHRxRc>.

Works Cited
"Living Conditions." In Concentration Camps. N.p., n.d. Web. 22
Mar. 2016. <http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks3/the-finalsolution/auschwitz-birkenau/living-conditions/#.VvDI7RIrKRt>.
"Work." In the Concentration Camps. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.
<http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks3/the-finalsolution/auschwitz-birkenau/work/#.VvDJCxIrKRt>.
"Holocaust Timeline: The Ghettos." Holocaust Timeline: The
Ghettos. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.
<https://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/ghettos.htm>.

Works Cited
"Prisoners In Concentration Camps." The British Medical
Journal 1.2820 (1915): 123-24. JSTOR. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.