During World War II Nazi Germany set up quite a number of concentration camps that helped imprison and suppress millions of people especially political detainees, Gypsies, homosexuals and Jews among other political undesirables. In as much as this proof has evidence of torture in these camps, this article just tries to give the reader a wider understanding of the function as well as importance of the concentration camp in Berlin.

The OSCD SOCIAL COMMENTARY: The Creation of Concentration Camps in Berlin

Some of them are Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück and Columbia-Haus, they were built at different parts of Berlin. These camps were meant for different propaganda, for instance, political prisoners, Jews, gays, and political outcasts. The Nazis employed them in order to instill fear, persecute, and finally annihilate.

Top themes identified from this thematic analysis include political oppression and persecution.

Enemies of state, such as socialists, communists, trade unionists, and, to a certain extent liberals were persecuted by Nazis. The Nazi regime arrested and incarcerated those who could pose a threat to their reign by reporting or stopping the genocide of Jews and any other disparaged segment in Germany. Some of the political leaders served many years, they suffered the unendurable here in attempts to imprison them for their freedom of speech.

Specifically, High Level Minority Jews and other Ethnic Minorities

In Berlin one of the most horrific evils of the concentration camps was the persecution and elimination of Jews. The Holocaust, particularly, was carried out through the building of these camps through the installation of the gas chamber as the major instrument of killing by the Nazis. It is imperative to notify that so many people of Jewish origin who were detained here intended to exterminate European Jewish population were executed and forced to work, experiment in medicine, and die en masse.

Together with Jews, Gypsies, the disabled, and the Poles also suffered at these camps were also established for ethnic minorities. The Nazis wanted to eliminate or remove from society anyone they deemed to be ‘abnormal’ or unworthy; the result was murder and great pain for millions of people.

Lives in the Concentration Camp

This explosive situation created general overcrowded conditions within concentration camps with extreme bodily and psychological torment present. The prisoners were tortured with even starvation, inadequate medical provisions and other inhuman treatments with additional hard manual labor. They lost their individuality and in many respects were humiliated and frequently housed in overcrowded and often squalid conditions.

Forced Labor and Experiments

Tens of thousands of prisoners in concentration camps in Berlin were employed in strenuous work, which caused their fatigue, injuries or death. The Nazis used this labour force to their advantage – to get a cheap workforce to earn them some income and provide for the needs of the war and at the same time, regard the Jews as worthless products.

In addition, prisoners were subjected to vile medical experiments by the Nazis who exposed them to extreme torture. These experiments were in fact of a racial and eugenic nature, where human life, and particularly the life of the Jew, was of no consequence.

Search and selection of exhibits, special presentations, and educational programs and activities paying Tribute to Victims and Reflecting the value of history.

Sacrifices made in the concentration camps in Berlin and other parts of Germany during the Second World War should not be erased from memory. It is especially important to remember and teach people about the victims and the histories that lead to future failures.

Going to these memorial and museums is a good way to learn more about the sufferings of individuals imprisoned in those concentration camps. In this way, appreciating this period in history, we are trying to create the world which people respect, wise with knowledge and free from hatred.

Never Forget

Though the Berlin concentration camps are not there any more, they are not forgotten. Therefore it incumbent upon us to pay homage to them and fight for equality as well as justice in our society today. And by paying our respects to the legends and by holding the power of those who dared to use their cruelty for our present and future, we create a future without tyranny and without a tint of oppression.