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Chelmno was one of the first death camps. Describe how the gas vans worked.?
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The got to go to the gas works and got one
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How many extermination camps were there in the holocaust?
There were six extermination (or 'death') camps in the Holocaust which were located at: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka. That is the 'accepted list', but the role of Majdanek is not clear and there was also an extermination camp at Maly Trostinets near Minsk.
How many death camps were open before Auschwitz?
Chelmno and Belzec came into operation as an extermination camp a few months before Auschwitz II.
How many concentration camps where in Poland?
The Germans set-up many camps in occupied Poland perhaps 2,000. These included concentration and labour camps mostly for ethnic Poles. There were also ghettos and death camps most for ethnic Jews.
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)
Was Auschwitz just a consentration camp for Jews?
Auschwitz was a cluster of camps. Some were slave labor camps with slaves from many different backgrounds worked, and where many were worked to death. Auschwitz II Birkenau was a death camp, devoted almost entirely to the slaughter of Jews.
Who worked at concentration camps?
SS death's head
How many extermination camps were there in the holocaust?
There were six extermination (or 'death') camps in the Holocaust which were located at: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka. That is the 'accepted list', but the role of Majdanek is not clear and there was also an extermination camp at Maly Trostinets near Minsk.
How many death camps were open before Auschwitz?
Chelmno and Belzec came into operation as an extermination camp a few months before Auschwitz II.
How did the Nazi soldiers kill people in death camps?
He gassed most of them and the others he worked them to death.
How many concentration camps where in Poland?
The Germans set-up many camps in occupied Poland perhaps 2,000. These included concentration and labour camps mostly for ethnic Poles. There were also ghettos and death camps most for ethnic Jews.
What camps had sonderkommandos?
Sonderkommandos were at the death camps: Auschwitz, Birkenau, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Chelmno. Though every camp needed burial and corpse disposal squads (as there were many deaths from starvation/disease, exhaustion/beating and euthenasia).
How would they kill you in a death camp?
The extermination camps relied mainly on gassing to kill. Some prisoners were shot and at some of the camps they were worked to death on inadequate food.
How many barrack did chelmno death camp have?
Their was 4 big ones and 1 little barracks in Chelmno.
Chelmno death camp's main purpose?
The sole purpose of Chelmno was extermination by gassing in closed vans.
Whow wre people treated in concentration camps?
They were starved to death, worked to death, and murdered in the gas chambers.
Where can you find information about Chelmno?
You seem to be asking a question about one of the six death camps built by the Nazis, named Chelmo in Poland. (Yes, there were many other camps, but there were six camps whose sole purpose was to murder Jews and other Nazi enemies, i.e they were not work camps etc..) Please see the link below.
When Hitler was a dictator what kind of camps were the Jews sent to?
Extermination camps (killing centres).Concentration camps (harsh forced labour camps, where the inmates were generally worked to death).Combined extermation and concentration camps.
