What was the purpose of [see q] in Nazi Germany?

Question

Ghettoes
Concentration Camps
Death Camps
Gas Chambers

Answer 1

a. Concentrate and control specific groups, particularly Jews.

b. Camps were work camps at first, to help in the war effort (slave labor)

c. Part of "Final Solution", prisoners were put to death.

d. Gas chambers were the most efficient way of killing masses of people. (See c. above)

Answer 2

Brief summaries of each :

the purpose of ghettos where to keep all the jews & anyone else in the Nazi's eyes as "bad people" (mostly jewish people though) together in a closed boundary area until further use.

the concentration camps were the places that the Nazi's would take jews, criminials, & people that opposed the Nazi ideas, to practice forced labor & eventually die of starvation, the gas chamber, dehydration, "experiments", and many other ways to die

the death camps are pretty much self-explanitory. it's were the nazi's prisoners were forced to work a little then murdered. (thousands at a time)

gas chambers were relitivally small enclosed buildings that with almost a push a button after completely shut would let out a large amount of deadly gas. It was the quickest way to kill masses amounts of the nazi's priosoners so that they could then be buried.

Answer 3

Already you have several depictions of the nature and purpose of those Nazi creations. So I'll address some of the "misguided" answers:

- True, the British did invent the concentration camp but with the intent to concentrate civilians that could aid the fighters against whom they were at war, the Boers. Understand that the Boers didn't fight as an army, but as commandos (they invented the word) of civilian dressed guerillas. You have to separate combatants from innocent people if you don't want to engage in mass slaughter, and the British didn't.
- True. The white Americans discriminated, enslaved and mistreated blacks. As did several other people everywhere to other people just for being different. This in no way excuses the Nazis who besides all that, used their considerable ingenuity and efficiency to mass murder not only the Jews but Slavs, Gypsies and any other that didn't conform to their idea of Aryan purity.
- True. The US did bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear devices killing many innocent people. As innocent as the millions of Chinese who got trampled on the advance of the Japanese Army in their quest for an Asian Empire. The US President, Mr. Truman, had the choice of invading, with conventional methods, Japan with the corresponding inmense loss of American (and Japanese) lives or to drop the bombs and end the war once and for all. He was appointed (not elected) President of the USA with a duty to the American people that including the saving of American lifes. He took a hard decision but a wise one. He saved more lives this way. Read your books and see how, even after the bombs, the Japanese military wanted to continue the struggle. Get to know the Japanese people, their honour code of Bushido and criticise Truman afterwards, if you honestly can.

Answer 4

The Final Solution....

Ghettos....kept the Jews in one place and allowed the govmnt to control conditions and traffic
Concentration Camps --same as death camps, a system to store use and destroy those targeted by the Nazis
Death Camps--see above
Gas Chambers---the last stop for the victims of the Nazis

Answer 5

Ghettoes: Too keep those they considered inferior seperate from the rest of society, like the US and South Africa did with Blacks under Segregation and Apartheid, respectfully.

Concentration Camps: Can't say, probably meant like the US kept American Japanese in camps while they fought Japan, just in case there was a rebellion or something?

Death Camps
Gas Chambers

I don't know if they really existed, or if they did they were likely exaggerated by the Jews. My guess is that people who rebelled against the NAZI Prison Guards were lined up and killed or gassed. That was pretty typical of militaries back then.

I am not saying that Nazis were great guys, it just seems that they we all seem to think they are the only ones who did bad things back then.

Heck, there was only one country that nuked countless civilians, twice, without a second thought.

It is wasn't Hitler, Stalin or the Emporer of Japan.

Answer 6

Ghettos. To contain people they didn't think were human i.e. Jews, gypsys, homosexuals, mentally ill. Ditto for concentration camps.
Death camps. For the extermination of the Jewish people, gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill and anyone else they decided was not worthy.
Gas chambers. A very efficient way of killing the aforementioned people in vast numbers using the Zyklon B gas.
And people still wonder why we bombed German cities.

Answer 7

Hello,

Maybe a little less Simpsons, American Idol, who gets kicked off what island and a little more time hitting the history books. If you are not into books and like TV screens there is a wealth of documentaries you can get on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany.

The purpose of Nazi Germany came as a bad deal they got from the Versailles treaty in WW1 - even your president Woodrow Wilson was against the treaty which heavily punished Germany economically. That situation and the Greart Depression brought Germany to her knees and there was great chaos and political instability, not to mention the threat of communism. The nazis took the reigns in this chaotic vacuum, cleaned up house, kicked started the economy and got many back to work with their infrastructure and military programs. At first some countries appreciated them since they were a bulwark against Stalinist Russia and the precieved threat of world communism at that time.

Evil as that system evolved to there were many other factors and accomplishments that should not be glorified but acknowledged.

For example it was Werner Von Brown, the German rocket scientist who sent the V2 missiles to London but his talents helped America win the space race and get to the moon... He worked for NASA after the war.
There are hundreds of other things achieved to numerous to list from television to the magnetic tape recorder.

Here is a balanced look of their purposes and accomplished goals but prices payed for that:

Guns not Butter’ [EFICS]

1. Employment
• In June 1933, the Nazis passed a Law to Reduce Unemployment.

• The RAD (National Labour Service) sent men on public works; eg the autobahns.

• Government spending rose, 1932–38 from about 5 billion to 30 billion marks.

• Unemployment fell from nearly 6 million to virtually nothing.

• Hitler built up the armed forces (e.g. conscription took 1 million unemployed).

• The soldiers needed equipment, so this set steel mills, coal mines and factories back into production. The Luftwaffe gave jobs to fitters, engineers and designers.

• The Nazi state machinery needed thousands of clerks, prison guards etc.

2. Farming
• By the 1933 Farm Law, farmers were assured of sales and given subsidies.

• The government kept food prices at the 1928 level.

• BUT farmers were organised into the Reich Food Estate and strictly controlled (e.g., one rule stated that hens must lay 65 eggs a year).

3. Industry
• The New Plan of 1934 stopped imports, and subsidised industry. This is called 'Autarky' - the belief that Germany should be self-sufficient.

• Production rose, especially of oil, steel, coal and explosives.

• In 1936, Goering was put in charge. His Four Year Plan proposed to get the army and industry ready for war in four years.

• Employers were happy when workers were well disciplined.

• BUT businesses were strictly controlled; they could be told to make something different/ were not allowed to raise wages/ workers could be sent to other factories.

• Goering said: ‘Iron makes an empire strong; butter only makes people fat’.

• Economists know now that these policies cause massive economic problems.


4. Conditions
• The Nazis tried to make people proud (e.g. the film The Beauty of Work in 1934).

• BUT trade unions were banned and all workers had to join the German Labour Front. They lost their right to strike for better pay and conditions.

• Wages actually fell.

• People who refused to work were imprisoned.

• Wages and conditions on the RAD schemes were very poor.


5. Strength through Joy (KdF) Movement
• Workers were offered cut-price holidays, theatre trips and concerts. In Berlin, 1933–38, the KdF sponsored 134,000 events for 32 million people (2 million went on cruises & weekend trips, and 11 million on theatre trips).

• The KdF designed the Volkswagen (or ‘People’s Car’) ‘Beetle’, which it was planned to be able to buy for 5 marks a week.

• The government made sure that everybody could get a cheap radio.


Michael

Answer 8

Ghettos were a preliminary form of isolation and containment of undesirable communities.

The remainder were the tools for the genocide of Jews and Gypsies and the eradication of other unwanted people. eg Homosexuals, Communists and other enemies of Germany.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Most of them werent actually in Germany.
The purpose was to imprison and murder millions of people that the Nazis didnt want in their utopia.