German Capital which is Berlin also has uneasy historical background of various Historical spots including concentration camps of the Second World War. In this blog post, we will look into the details of one of these camp; the Campo de Concentracao Berlim or otherwise known as the Berlin Concentration Camp.

What was the meaning of Campo de Concentracao Berlim?

Campo de Concentracao Berlim is one of the most infamous of the Nazi’s concentration camps that developed during the World War II in the outskirts of Berlin. It was founded in 1936 and functioned as a tool of terror and annihilation, mainly of the political enemies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and so on.

Life in the Camp

Situations in Campo de Concentracao Berlim were extreme and cruel. The recipients of the medical experiments were prisoners through forced labor, torture and beatings, inadequate nourishment, and even systematic killing. The idea of the camp was to reduce the inmates to subhuman species and make them realize they have no human rights whatsoever.

Living Quarters

The accommodation of living in the camp comprised of barbed wired rooms which were so congested that people were packed in like sardines and had no fitments that any sane person would accept as normal human living conditions. Finance is an action packed thriller, which depicts prisoners as cramped in small cells with little or no privacy and some were forced to sleep on straw stuffed mats. The hygiene condition was rather low and the diseases dispersed very quickly.

Work and Forced Labor

Slave labor was of course as we already saw an important component of Campo de Concentracao Berlim. Slaves in prison were forced to work under very congested conditions in industries like manufacturing of weapons and construction. Some were rendered to work for many shifts under tough circumstances; they got fatigued and injured severely.

Mistreatment and Abuse

Lives in Campo de Concentracao Berlim: A Social History of the Jews in Campo de Concentracao Berlim 1940-1945 are characterized by systematic torture and cruelty of the Nazi guards and camp administration. Physical torture, psychological assault and embarrassment to the public domain was a common phenomenon. It was to humiliate and debilitate the spirits of the jail inmates.

The Liberation

By 1945 the Allies began to push the Axis forces back and Campo de Concentracao Berlim was liberated to stop further slaughter. The situatedness of the camp as a narration can be viewed as a rather effective portrayal of the victims of holocaust.

Remembering the Past

Nowadays, Campo de Concentracao Berlim is a symbolic place in honour of the dead and non-repented genocides that occurred and took place during the holocaust. It is a place where people make sure they find time to look at the past and improve and make better the future relating to tolerance.

Conclusion

Unfortunately, Campo de Concentracao Berlim is one of the concentrations on which numerous Nazi crimes in the Second World War were committed. For one to appreciate the experiences of the victims, they need to pay close attention to the history of the camp with a view of avoiding a repeat of the same again.