Holocaust Concentration Camp Research Paper

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The Holocaust was a very dark period for the world. It lasted 12 years, from 1933 to 1945. In 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and a few monthe later, anti-Jews laws were put in place. Hitler’s goal was to create a pure Aryan-German race and to obtain that result, he believed that all other non-Aryan-German races had to be extinct. A famous quote that Hitler said was ¨A single blow must destroy the enemy… without regard of losses… a gigantic all-destroying blow.¨ The targeted race Hitler mostly focused on and had the most casualties (6 million were killed) were Jews.The first concentration camp, in Dachau (a city just outside of Munich) was opened in March 1933, only 2 months after Hitler came to power. Concentration camps …show more content…
(NAA Section Nutrion- Anatomy, pp. 24-25) Prisoners could also go without food for days and fresh water was scarce. (USHMME- Bergen- Belsen) The diet in concentration camps only permitted 3 months to live for a prisoner (NAA- Nutrtion)if they did not trade food or have contacts around the camp for some extra food. One would understand how easily it would be to die of starvation in a concentration, and it was even more dangerous to adolescents and children, who need extra nutrients and food to develop and …show more content…
A research on Holocaust Survivors Report Long-Term Effects on Attitudes toward Food (Amy J. Sindler, Nancy S. Wellman & Oren Baruch Stier, 2004)interviewed 22 Holocaust survivors and the research demonstrated that:
About half of the survivors (n = 11; 52%) reported keeping plenty of food on hand today. With a mixture of pride and enthusiasm, some showed their completely full refrigerators and freezers.
Almost every survivor (n = 22; 96%) said that it was intensely difficult to throw away food. Several said that it was a sin to throw away food.
Ten of 18 survivors (56%) stated that today they would rather leave a restaurant than wait in line.
These psychological impacts affect their daily life and can complicate it too. When you can’t go to a restaurant because you have to wait in line, that reduces the possibilities of where they can eat out by a