 This is a picture of a section of people in a pile of dead in a concentration camp, where they had been dumped after being gassed or collapsing of starvation. |
| This is a concentration camp, one of many used by Germany during World War 2 to contain and usually kill the Jewish and other racial or religious groups. The time that these were used was during the holocaust, in which different racial or ethnical groups were hunted down and put into concentration camps or killed on sight. The Nazis had created approximately 15,000 of these concentration camps. Another common name for concentration camps was death camps. The people were dying daily from starvation, diseases, or other people. Many of the healthier men were forced into work, or used as lab rats in tests by the Nazis. One of the worst and most brutal causes of death in a death camp though was the gas chambers, where innocent people were herded like cattle into large buildings where they were gassed to death. Any who remained alive after the gas chamber were just shot, and all the bodies were dumped in huge trenches. |
