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What were some main concentration camps?
Auschwitz I Birkenau Monowitz Sobibor Dachau Chelmno Treblinka
What are the concentration camp categories?
The categories of concentration camps were as follows: * I - for example, Dachau * II - for example, Buchenwald * III - for example, Auschwitz I (original main camp) Obviously, the death toll at all the major camps was very high. Death camps in the sense of extermination camps were off the scale. These camps were: * Auschwitz II (Birkenau) * Belzec (not to be confused with Bergen-Belsen) * Chelmno * Sobibor * Treblinka * Majdanek (a part of which was used as a 'back-up' when other camps couldn't cope with the numbers)
What was the difference between concetrantion camps and death camps?
Death camps had the facilities to commit mass murder, they also had limited barracks as they did not house many inmates (Auschwitz was the exception as it was both).
What different category of Holocaust camps were there?
During the holocaust their was onlya small type of camps Concentration camps - Camps where is to just keep people and torturing them to concentrate them. Extermination camps - Camps where it only main purpose to to Exterminate people asmuch as possible Death camps - Same as a Extermination camp but only Kills people less frequently Labour camps - A camp which is only main purpose is to use prisoners as slave labour workers POW camps - Camps for Prisoners of War
What year did the first Nazi death camp become fully operational?
The term death camp is vague. It is generally used for extermination camps, that is camps which had exterminationas their sole or main purpose. The first such camp to become fully operational was Chelmno, where routine mass gassings of Jews started on 8 December 1941. The system of extermination camps was fully operational by April 1942. However, if you simply mean a concentration camp (in the sense of a horrific labour and punishment camp) then Dachau, which opened on 22 March 1933, was the first. Two camps - the Auschwitz group and Majdanek - combined both functions.
What kind of camps did they have during the Holocaust?
* Transit camps, where prisoners were held till they were moved to other kinds of camps. * Concentration Camps, Grade I - for example, Dachau. * Concentration Camps, Grade II - for example, Buchenwald. (These were harsher than Grade I camps and there was less food than at Grade I camps). * Concentration Camps, Grade III - for example, Auschwitz I and III. (Harsher and with less food than in Grade II camps - very high death rates). * Extermination camps - most of Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Treblinka II, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, Maly Trostenets and one section of Majdanek. These camps were designed as killing centres and nothing else. In addition, there were also concentration camps for 'difficult children' (!) aged 12+ and later even 2+ ...
What were death camps during World War 2?
6 main camps where they sent people to be gassed with poison and die
Nazi concentration camp in Poland?
It had a dual function: it was a concentration and extermination camp. The first means that the inmates were forced to work (often to death), the latter means that parts of it were built to kill the Jews (gas chambers, crematoria). It was also the place where medical experiments were carried out on humans with the leadership of J. Mengele. He experimented on twins and dwarfs.About one and a half million Jews were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau.More than 20,000 people could be killed with the equipment they had in a single day.
Where were the first death camps?
The main extermination camps were all in Poland, which had a very large Jewish population. Please see the related question.
How where Nazis Death Camps made?
There were 5 main death camps the biggest was Auschwitz but most people killed in the holocaust were killed by mobile killing squads sent out in all conquered land
How did the Nazi's kill the Jews at concentration camps?
In concentration camps the main causes of death were disease and starvation, exhaustion would lead to death in a variety of ways, the most likely being beaten to death. Or they would be sent to a death camp and gassed.
What types of camps were there in Germany?
It's common to draw a distinction between 'ordinary' concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald, and extermination camps. The latter existed only for the purpose of killing. They are:Auschwitz II (Birkenau section)BelzecChelmnoMajdanek (part only)SobiborTreblinka IIIn addition, there were transit camps and various 'specialized' camps.
