How Did Dachau Cause The Holocaust

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The holocaust, also known “The Final Solution,” was a cruel devastating even, caused by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party. They were called Schutzstaffel, a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers at the time period was in an economic depression. Many German civilians were falling into poverty and it was led to believe that the average Jewish Germany civilians weren’t. Creating envy and hatred toward the profiting families. That’s when German politic, Adolf Hitler, convinced the people, the Jews were the reason for their downfall and struggle. The speeches inspired human extinction of “undesired people” or threats to his “master race” to most Germans. Some examples are Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, French, Yugoslavs, Czechs, Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Italians, Jews, Homosexuals, …show more content…
Although there were many camps, Dachau was not the same as the rest. Dachau wasn’t just one of the camps established, it was the first camp established by the Nazi socialist. It was used as a prototype to build the rest of the camps. Dachau was used to conclude what actions should or should not take place in the other camps.
Dachau was described as “the first concentration camp for political prisoners. Dachau resulted in an estimated 188,000 devastating death, but only 31,951 deaths were reported. Dachau was maintained in horrible, life threatening conditions. Many inmates were killed senselessly. The inmates were treated like animals and kept starving. The prisoners were to serve in forced labor and expand the camp.
Dachau was ran by for forty-two Staff members, nineteen females, the rest males. After American troops forced surrender in the act of liberating the inmates, in April 29, 1945 many resulted dead. Thirty-thousand political inmates were freed; many were in bad health conditions. The Americans then buried the piles of