miércoles, 7 de octubre de 2009

Literature Homework#1

Answer the following questions:

1. What is a ghetto?
During World War II, ghettos were city districts, which were often enclosed, in which germans concentrated jewish population and forced them to live under miserable conditions.

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2. What is a concentration camp?
Concentration Camps were places were jews, gays, gypsies and people with disabilities, among others, were taken to be controlled and tortured. It is like a prision and people did hard labors there.

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3. Which is the difference between an extermination camp and a concentration camp?
Concentration camp were used for various purposes such as punishment, do forced hard labors, etc. Extermination camps were used only for the purpose of killing people, with different techniques, like gassing and shooting people. Though, in concentration camps, people also died due to starvation and killer diseasies, like the death toll.

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