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The ground is muddy, slippery with rain and blood, as soldiers in chainmail and plate armor engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat. Welcome to the battlefield of medieval Europe —a place where chivalry meets savagery, and life can be snuffed out in an instant.
What choices did other countries have in the face of mistreatment of civilians? How and why did the function of the concentration camp system change in the middle of World War II? How do these camps differ from relocation or transit camps in other national histories?
The aim of the Nazi extermination camps was to murder and annihilate all races deemed ‘ degenerate ’: primarily Jews but also Roma . Development of concentration camps. The first concentration camps in Germany were set up as detention centres for so-called ‘enemies of the state’.
- Peasants Lived in Villages
- Most Peasants Were Farmers
- Women and Children Stayed at Home
- Taxes Were High
- Houses Were Cold and Dark
- The Justice System Was Harsh
Medieval society was largely made up of villages built upon a lord’s land. Villages were comprised of houses, barns, sheds and animal pens clustered in the middle. Fields and pastures surrounded them. There were different categories of peasants within the feudal society. Villeins were peasants who had legally sworn an oath of obedience on the bible...
Daily medievallife revolved around an agrarian calendar (centred around the sun), meaning in the summer, the workday would start as early as 3 am and finish at dusk. Peasants spent most of their time farming their strip of land assigned to their family. Typical crops included rye, oats, peas and barley which were harvested with a sickle, scythe or ...
It is estimated that around 50% of infants during the medievalperiod would succumb to illness within the first year of their lives. Formal schooling was reserved for the wealthy or located within monasteries for those who would go on to become monks. Instead of formal schooling, children learned to farm, grow food and tend to livestock, or would be...
Peasants had to pay to rent their land from their lord, and a tax to the church called a tithe, which was 10% of the value of what a farmer had produced in the year. A tithe could be paid in cash or in kind, such as seeds or equipment. After you had paid your taxes, you could keep what was left. Tithes could make or break a peasant’s family: if you...
Peasants generally lived in small houses which normally consisted of only one room. Huts were made from wattle and daub with a thatch roof and no windows. A fire burned in the hearth in the centre, which, when combined with the fire burning in the hearth in the centre, would create a very smoky environment. Inside the hut, around a third was penned...
There was no organised police force during the medieval period, which meant that law enforcement was generally organised by local people. Some areas required every male over 12 to join a group called a ‘tithing’ to act as a quasi-police force. If someone was the victim of a crime, they’d raise the ‘hue and cry’, which would summon other villagers t...
Jun 27, 2019 · Concentration camps (Konzentrationslager; abbreviated as KL or KZ) were an integral feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945.
A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. On 27 January 1945, Soviet troops cautiously entered Auschwitz. Primo Levi - one of the most...
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The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Following the 1934 purge of the SA, the concentration camps were run exclusively by the SS via the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.
