What types of torture devices did the nazis use in Concentration Camps??

Question

We have to do a project where you find a type of discrimination [i chose Jews] & find an artifact [from nature] and relate them. EX.... back in the olden days men could beat their wives as long as the stick was no thicker than his finger. [so you bring in a stick no bigger than your finger.]


Thanks for you help!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I do not hear too much about torture in the usual sense in the concentration camp. I visited Dachau (near Munich) and I do not recall any mention of torture. Perhaps mental torture would apply. Being starved and living in filthy, crowded, disease infested buildings would be torture.

There were the rooms for gassing people, there were the ovens to burn the bodies. At other camps there were cruel medical experiments and forced labor causing death. Some prisoners purposely approached the fence to be shot and take them away from the misery.

If you go to the town of Dachau it is hard to find. Only small signs in yellow and black that say: KZ But I stayed in a Jewish owned hotel and they gave me directions. The town would rather not have people see the camp, I believe. The camp now belongs to a Jewish organization and they have reconstructed barracks of the type that were there during WWII. It is a sobering place. In the museum is a wall with the name of every person who died there along with their nationality. If you look long enough you will see: USA!

Despite their despicable behavior the Germans kept very complete records. The names of all who were there. Brutal but great bookkeepers. The keepers of the camp were also very efficient in saving human hair for stuffing cushions, eye glasses, gold fillings in teeth and anything else that could help the German war effort.

Answer 2

The Concentration camps were not really about torture. They were about extermination. In some cases the prisoners were used as lab rats for "medical" research, but this was done with normal medical tools of the day.

People in these camps were harshly treated, and I'm sure some were tortured, but this would have been on a more personal scale instead of as standard procedure.

Before the dedicated gas chambers and furnaces were built, they would load Jews into the backs of trucks, with the exhaust routed into the compartment and just drive around until they were all dead.

Answer 3

*They used gas, whips and they also skinned people alive
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*Gas Chambers Cremating Heaters were they would burn the Jews Etc. They would kill them when there lined up in front of a hole and just shoot them.

*Also they would cut the arms off of two people and try and make them fit on the other person. Took out organs of the Jews to see how long they lived.

*used cruel and unusual experimental devices. also did cruel experiments like sowing Jews together at the torso to see if they could live as "Siamese twins.

*The German doctors did cruel medical experiments that they hadn't tested on anyone else.

*Lined them up and ran a bull dozer over them.

*tied them to a post and tore the flesh off their backs with a stick wrapped with barbed wire

*They shot them, put them in giant ovens, did horrible medical experiments on them, put them in gas chambers, starved them, whipped them, and hung them.

**One of the more common tortures used in some Nazi camps involved tying an inmate's wrists securely behind the back and them suspending him (or her) for anything from 30 minutes to a few hours. The pain and the effect on the muscles and joints can easily be imagined. It was horrific.

Answer 4

Gas, owens, Bern people, Taking the nails out,

Answer 5

starvation, malnutrition, chlorine gas chambers, random shootings

Answer 6

the first link has some pics...the second one talks about some of the...medical experiments.

Answer 7

chlorine gas chambers