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The Atrocities and Liberation of Concentration Camps


If you combine sadistic Nazi soldiers, a "license to kill," and twenty-six million people

whom they took their aggression out on, you have the Holocaust. From torture to murder, the

concentration camp prisoners experienced almost every despicably, inhumane act one can

imagine. Hitler's Nazis will never be able to justify this ultimate example of cruelty and

unfairness. Although the Holocaust occurred nearly seventy years ago, the world will never fail

to remember the horrible acts that were committed against millions of innocent people in

concentration camps.

Whether the camps' establishments were for labor purposes, or simply because Hitler

despised the Jews, the prisoners could expect nothing less than being treated like pathetic

animals who were guilty of the "crime" of being born. According to Raul Hilberg, two principles

were used for deportation purposes: "One was the ‘security......

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