Concentration camps are a curse that Berlin, which is the capital of Germany, has been bearing for centuries. These camps were created by the Nazi regime of Germany during the Second World War as basically part of the holocaust plan. To that end, in this blog post, we will discuss the history of Berlin concentration camps, their role, and the effect of the camp on people.
What was the Concentration Camps For
Concentration camps also helped Nazi Germany to fulfil their “Final Solution” – the extermination of six million Jews and millions of others who the regime considered to be of inferior stock. The primary role of these camps was to detain, enslave, starve, and kill enemies in the eyes of the state, Gypsies, Jews, homosexuals, activist prisoners, communists, and disabled people.
Gentle introduction to Berlin Concentration Camps
Berlin itself was one of the capitals and there were several concentration camps near the city. Here are some of the most notable ones:
What’s more frightening, Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
The Sachsenhausen was one of the first known concentration camps that were opened by the Nazis, the camp being established just outside Berlin. Originally used to house political prisoners it was later used to design other concentration camps. Sachsenhausen detained people of different status, involved them in work, medical experiments and extermination.
Ravensbrück was the name of the Concentration Camp.
Ravensbrück situated 90 km from Berlin was mainly a woman’s camp. It incarcerated female inmates of political, anti-Nazi resistance, social origin, and ‘asocials.’ The conditions remained quite miserable at Ravensbrück many of the inmates were made to work as slaves, subjected to medical experiments, tortured and starved.
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Sachsenhausen concentration camp was another large camp situated in Oranienburg near Berlin. It was active from 1936 to 1945 and alleged to have contained a huge population of political prisoners, Jews, and Soviet prisoners of war. I realized that most of the prisoners were assaulted; they had no privacy, food or proper healthcare, forced to work, and experimentations.
This paper focuses on life in concentration camps; it also Current mental health proactivity of prisoners in concentration camps.
Living conditions in concentration camps situated in Berlin were strictly disastrous. Prisoners were starved and undernourished, and were physically and sexually assaulted all the time. Many of them were treated inhumanely; their rights deprived, and forced to work, being confined in most cases in crowded and dirty places. The threat of execution or of being selected as a gas chamber candidate was always present, so simply living from day to day was a trial.
Let us focus on the Liberation and the remembering of the victims.
The rescuing of the concentration camps in Berlin and in other part of Germany by the forces of the Allied signified for the end of this part of Orwell’s work. The barbarity that the liberators found unpleasant was appalling and sphered the needful to make sure that those acts are not repeated again. Presently, there exists several memorial sites in Berlin that are dedicated for the purpose of remembering the victims who perished in the concentration camps so as to teach the generations to come the lessons that come with tolerances and acceptance.
Conclusion
The free Berlin has several concentration camps’ remains where many atrocities were committed during the Second World War. We owe it to ourselves, and to generations to come, to learn and ensure that repeat of such acts do not take place again. That is why through remembering the victims and paying the tribute to them, we follow the values of compassion, togetherness, and appreciation of every person – a message of which the world desperately needs today.
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