“Experiments had been ordered involving living subjects and phosphorus: methods of treating phosphorus burns were to be developed and tested. I must be silent about the effects of this series of experiments, which proceeded with unspeakable pain, fear, blood, and tears: for it is impossible to put the misery into words”(Steakley). These men went through life with the constant gnawing fear that that specific day they would be tortured, experimented on, or killed, and all of this was to make up for the mistakes the German government made. As a result of the Nazis wanting to achieve racial superiority, homosexual men were sent to labor camps, suspected of committing “lewd and lascivious acts”, and subjected to “reprogramming experiments”. The …show more content…
The homosexual men were first arrested, then convicted (under very little evidence too), and finally were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps. Homosexuality was seen as a crime against Germany, chiefly because they could not help to create the perfect Aryan race. The government made these men’s personal agendas into government issues and went even one step further as to arrest them for their personal preferences and choices. In reality, all of this fake science was just a way to cover for the mistakes and failures of Germany’s government. The country did not even relinquish this idea after the war. They decided they couldn’t let the fact be that these men were making the wrong choice, and decided to make it a …show more content…
L.D. Classen Von Neudegg was only in the camps for three months but it seemed like forever to him. He was subjected to death marches, beatings, phosphorus burns, and freezing temperatures. He says that much of the experience is “too emotional to talk about” and that the experiments and beatings were extremely painful (Steakley). The same rules applied to him as to everyone else; keep your hands outside of the sleeping bag, only wear a sleep shirt, and no communicating with the outside world. Every person in the camp followed these specific rules because they were in fear of what may have come if they didn’t follow the
They couldn't speak. Most of them were lying on the ground, many of them were unconscious," (Light One Candle, 377). The prisoners in the death camps were treated like animals. No persons civil rights should be taken away from them to that extent. It is inhuman.
The Gypsies had to go through the horrific and frightening process of testing for the purity of their “kind”. The Nazis constructed research to prove that
In the novel, Night, authored by Elie Wiesel, a true story about the oppression of non-aryan cultures by the Germans during The Holocaust is detailed in such an eye-opening read that no future generation will ever forget the events which occurred. The effect this persecution had on each individual victim of this traumatic time period will always be remembered. The trauma inflicted on the Jewish, Czechoslovakians, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, communists, and many more groups, resulted in not only the deaths of over 10 million innocents but also the persecution which occurred unwillingly forced the victims to question their intrinsic beliefs as humans. Out of the total number of victims persecuted by the Germans, only a select few survived.
From beatings to running for your life, Nazi’s would always perform the act of corruption on prisoners as if they were animals. Men and women prisoners were horribly traumatized by abuse and forced labor that led many to death in camps. Prisoners were negatively affected by the forced labor forced upon them in camps. Both men and women had to work for their lives.
Holocaust Homosexuals “We went through more pain as being called monsters when they were the true ones. ”(Amanda Peacock) In the year of 1933 the Holocaust was just at the beginning for them all. The victims didn’t know what was going to happen to them, they were scared, in fear, terrified, and much more in results.
After studying the American eugenics concept, Hitler medicalized their concept in an attempt to legitimize it even more. “"I have studied with great interest," he told a fellow Nazi, "the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock."” (Black, "The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics", 2003)These countries were then able to use the Americans study of eugenics for their own practices if they chose to, as Germany did. “...at the Nuremberg trials that followed World War Ⅱ, Nazis who has carried out 375,000 forced eugenic sterilizations cited Buck v. Bell in defense of their actions.” (Cohen, Imbeciles: the Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck, 2016, p. 11)
These are some of the facts of the Nazi’s new rule they did in 1935. After all, no matter what you do, the Nazi will still know you’re a Jew with this evidence, they can check, unless you're lucky enough and escape from their sight. In fact, these are some of the reasons how Nuremberg Laws affect the Jew’s life. In conclusion, this is what the Nuremberg Laws does in 1935. Anti-semitic Anti-semitic is also another reasons that caused this actions.
Nazi death marches were very deadly and thousands of innocent people died during them. The Nazis had three main priorities when evacuating the prisoners, how far they would walk, how long the prisoners would walk, the environment they would walk in, how many people died and what they did with the dead bodies. First, the Nazis had three main priorities when evacuating the prisoners. The first priority is the Nazis didn’t want to let the prisoners escape to tell the story of how badly they were tortured and all the forced labor they had to achieve.
The likely fate of many people was death because the conditions of the camp was very poor with a lack of basic human necessities. While in the concentration
Critical Summary Victor Frankl ’s “Experiences from a Concentration Camp” from his book Man’s Search for Meaning details the everyday occurances of the average prisoner in a concentration camp. Through a series of brief stories accounting his experience in concentration camps, Frankl vividly depicts the suffering that he and other prisoners experienced and how these experiences affected them mentally.