7th Grade Social Studies Mr.

Stevenson Carnage Middle School

Camp Comparisons

The Use of Camps During WW II

Camp - a place where tents, huts or other temporary shelters are set up for people to live in. People Soldiers captured by the other side Civilians who are targeted

Targeted Civilians
During the war, countries targeted different civilians and put them in camps. Germany The United States Modern Day Examples

Germany
Target Group - Jews, Gypsies, undesirables Reason Hitlers Final Solution, to rid Europe and eventually the world of all Jewish people (Genocide) Timeline 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany 1st Nazi concentration camps Dachau Germany German Boycotts of Jewish shops and businesses Limits on East European Jewish

Timeline
1934 -1936 Nuremberg Laws first anti-Jewish racial laws Jews no longer considered German citizens Could not marry Aryans Could not fly the German flag A Jew was anyone with 2 or 3 Jewish Grandparents Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine

German Timeline continued 1937 -1939 Buchenwald concentration camp opens Austria incorporated into Germany Flossenburg concentration camp opens Italy enacts sweeping anti-Semitic laws Swiss request that Germany mark Jewish passports with the letter J restricted 17,000 Polish Jews expelled from Germany Kristallnach (Night of Broken Glass)
200 Synagogues destroyed, 7500 shops, 30k males gone!

Primary source account Nazis mistreated the Jews in all of the countries they conquered 1941 German army invading Soviet Union 1941 Josef Perl Czech.
We marched into a forest where a huge long ditch was already dugI could hear a machine gun goingAll of a suddenI saw my mother and four sisters lined up and before I had a chance to say Mother! they were already dead. Somehow time stands stillI would have been almost the next one but all of sudden the bombers came over, we were ordered to lay face downwards, but

German Camps
1939 til end of War German Ministry of Justice 1,200 camps Jewish Virtual Library -15,000 camps Auschwitz Poland Dachau Germany Treblinka Poland Janowska - Ukraine

Treatment People were taken the camps in the boxcars of trains Upon arrival at the camps people were sorted
Healthy prisoners were chosen for slave labor Some were used for medical experiments
Test exposure to (cold, altitude, chemicals etc..)

The elderly, disabled, sick, mothers and children

Sent to the gas chambers Bodies were burned in giant furnaces

Polish Jews being loaded on trains

Conditions at the typical Camp Brick Barracks with 3 tier wooden bunks that housed 700 people in each barrack 11 hours a day were spent working
Mines, mills and factories in Silesia Prisoners received 3 meals (1700 calories / day) Starvation diets lead to organic deterioration No heat, poor sanitation lead to disease and death Standing in line for roll call Periodic executions

Auschwitz

Auschwitz Roll call

List the resources you used for your research

General Eisenhower liberating Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

Mauthausen Camp being liberated

The Results of German Camps

It is estimated that 11 million people were killed 6 million Jews including 1.1 million children Gypsies, the disabled etc.. The Nuremberg Trials November 20, 1945 Military Tribunal where dozens of Nazi leaders were put on trial for their crimes 12 were sentenced to death for their crimes

Targeted Civilians in the US

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, the loyalty of Japanese Americans was questioned. Military and Political leaders worried about a Japanese invasion and what would happen President Roosevelt ordered 120,000 Japanese Americans (mostly on the West Coast) to be relocated to Internment Camps 10 camps in 7 states They were locked behind barbed wire and would be shot for trying to flee

Conditions of a typical Camp

The camps were fenced, and in each fenced camp there were block arrangements. Each block contained 14 barracks, 1 mess hall, and 1 recreational hall on the outside. On the inside was the ironing, laundry, and men and women's lavatories. Other places in the camp included: dry and cold warehouses, a car and equipment repair and storage An administration building, schools, canteens, a library, religious services, hospitals, and a post office

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The Results of US Camps

Executive Order 9066 More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced from their homes on short notice taken to isolated military style barracks All but one camps closed by Dec 1945 1944 Korematsu vs The United States Supreme Court justified the executive order as a wartime necessity 1988 Congress attempted to apologize for the action by rewarding each surviving intern $20,000

Ending the War Hiroshima

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