The Role that Other Lesser-known Concentration Camps Play...

As World War II continued on to in the spring of 1945, the prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany were worn down, starved of food, and weary. See, not many people know about the other concentration camps that took place during the Holocaust. Though Auschwitz and Dachau are the most commonly known concentration camps, the lesser-known concentration camps also played an important role in the Holocaust - such as holding prisoners of war due to their strategic geographic positions. Hitler’s interest opposition to Jews began at a young age. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria on April 20, 1889. He had a dream of becoming a great artist, and applied to an academy at the age of 19. After failing twice to be accepting into Vienna’s†¦show more content†¦While in prison, he wrote an autobiographical book called Mein Kampf, or â€Å"My Struggle.† By 1927, the Nazi party was 40,000 strong. Nazi candidates took 12 seats in the country’s governing body in the 1928 national election. Michael Berenbaum at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states: The Holocaust began slowly. Age-old prejudice led to discrimination, discrimination to persecution, persecution to incarceration, and incarceration to annihilation. And mass murder, which culminated with the killing of six million Jews, did not begin with the Jews nor did it encompass only the Jews. The violations of one group’s rights are seldom contained only to that group (George 26). Before long, Hitler had gained massive amounts of power, passing a multitude of anti-Jew laws. With the large amount of anti-Jew laws, it became easy for Nazi officials to accuse Jews of committing a crime and send them to prison without a trial. In an effort to house all of them, Hitler ordered camps to be created to â€Å"concentrate† his opponents and keep them in a confined space. After Hitler’s orders, the concentration camp - Dachau - was established April 26, 1945. 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