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…and lawfully denounced as the evil empire that he was. (Hartmann) In every country on Germany's borders--except Switzerland--Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other targets of Hitler's hate were sent to concentration camps. But there was no Holocaust on Swiss soil…

…. Preferring this rather than submitting to arrest by the Nazis and being dispatched to concentration camps and to almost certain death. At the beginning of July, 1942, when it would have been foolish to delay not going into hiding, the Franks, along with a family…

…, they were taken to one of the various concentration camps located throughout Germany. Hitler created concentration camps to kill all who were of the Jewish religion and who were not of German descent. The SS administered the killings of these people…

…herded into concentration camps, there to starve and perish as slave laborers. Other millions were driven into dismal ghettos, which served as holding pens until Nazis got around to disposing of them (297). The mass killings began in 1941, with the German…

…areas may have been needed. In the Soviet Union he continued without a specific point of focus, probably forfeiting his chance to capture the lightly defended Stalingrad. At this point in time Hitler had the concentration camps expanded, and added…

…the oppressed, but neighbors of the victims as well. Martin Niemoeller, a Holocaust survivor, illustrates the passiveness that he felt during that time, and how his apathy led to his departure to a concentration camp. He states, "In Germany, they came first…

…as the police hauled away spirited Anne, wise Otto, depressed Edith, and the others. I barely had a chance to look at the Franks, as they were put into trucks headed towards their fates at concentration camps. I could not even register what was happening since…

…relevance in is "Life Is Beautiful". This is a very interesting representation by Benigni of one Jewish family's ordeal in a concentration camp, and offers a stark contrast to that of Mark Baker's in The Fiftieth Gate. It is a memory of the young son…

…in Europe after 1939, about six million of them were killed. As a term, Holocaust has normally been used to describe the fate of the Jews. Most of the Jewish killings were done by mobile death squads and in concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka…

…thousands of anti Nazis taken to concentration camps but still everyone supported Hitler. In the schools students were taught Nazi ideology, and youths with spare time would be drawn to the Hitler Youth and Nazi-Led League of German Girls. The goal to come from…