Brief Intro on Hitler's Idea and Concentration Camps

     January 30, 1933 was a terrible day in world history. It is this day that Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany. His first law that he passed was that he could make any law without notice of the German President or Prime Minister. With this simple law was passed, Hitler unknowingly by the world made himself the Dictator of Germany. What he had plan for the world was unimaginable.

     In general, Hitler wanted to build the Third Reich or the Third Empire. In his attempt to do so, he wanted to take over the world and purify it's human race. He thought of all Jews, Poles, Gypsies, and disabled people as scum. He knew they would stand in the way of the Third Reich. He knew he must stop these races of people from progressing, suceeding, and if necessary, to stop them from living. His plan for all of these innocent people was concentration camps. A concentration camp is place where people like the Jews, Poles, Gypsies, and the disabled would be held prisoner until they are killed or they die of hunger and dehydration.

    Hitler's first step to starting the concentration camps was to strip rights from all Jewish people. He did this through the Nuremberg Laws. He did this to prove to everyone that Jews should have no rights and therefor have no right to live.

      His second step was to begin sharing his idea of what should happen to all Jews. He had articles put in newspapers to critizize all Jews. These articles followed up on how Jews deserve to die. It also made everyone else think that they were getting what was coming to them.

      His final step was to use brutality against anyone disagreeing with him. He did this with his 400,000 SA soliders, otherwise known as the Brown Shirts. All of these Brown Shirts were in agreement with the ways of the Nazi Party. The Brown Shirts would roam the streets, injuring anyone at the slightest disagreement with Hitler. They would damage Jewish shops and property. These Brown Shirts were not brutal enough for Hitler though. He took the brutalist of the Brown Shirts and but them in the Black Guard or the SS. The Nazi that made up the SS were religious to Hitler and were more likely to do whatever Hitler said. The SA was then retired from terroizing the streets of Germany. Soon enough, it was the SS that was in charge of all concentration camp plans.

     Hitler used his governement and his power to get his way. He was on his way to purifying the human race from all Jews, Gypsies, Poles and the disabled. He had the people he needed, and he tricked his people into following his ways. First, Hitler made prison camps to put Jews and hostages of war through starvation. Then he made labor camps, where captured Jews would build weaponary for the Germans, and then they would be executed. Then when all hope was loss in winning the war he started, he made camps with only one purpose: mass extermination. 

Resources:

The Holocaust Camps, by Ann Byers

Hitler's Rise to Power and the Holocaust, by Linda Jacobs Altman

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005141

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nurlaws.html

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/DEFN/sturmabt.htm

http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/TIMELINE/nazirise.HTM

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/DEFN/ss.htm