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Treatment
more prisoners. Prisoners were often beaten for not being able to perform orders, or for no reason at all. Overall the treatment of the prisoners in the camps were terrible.
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Treatment
were being taken to the before they even reached the camp. AWhen they got to the camps their clothes and other belongings were taken, and they were given uniforms to wear, along with a number. At the camps a lot of the winter. Illnesses especially, typhus and tuberculosis, were spreading throughout the camps, killing even more prisoners.
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Treatment
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Concentration Camps During WWII
Concentration camps are places where large groups of people, mostly minorities and those being persecuted for political and religious beliefs, are held as prisoners. The people are held in harsh conditions and a lot of people die from being over-worked, starvation, and disease. There were many of these camps throughout Europe in World War II, primarily in Nazi Germany. Concentration camps are often thought to be the same thing as extermination camps, but there is a distinction. Concentration camps were mainly used for imprisoning people, mainly those opposing German government and people dubbed as "undesirables", they were meant to kill the people just intimidate others opposed to German rule, but a lot of people sent to them died anyway. However, those who were sent to extermination camps were sent to right their death. The first concentration camps that were in Germany were soon established after Hitler became the chancellor of Germany.
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Treatment
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Treatment
the winter. There was only one bathroom for the hundreds of people in the camps.