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How many concentration camps in Germany were there back in 1940?
Back in 1940, there were five concentration camps in Germany. These camps were established to eradicate resistance groups, political prisoners, racial groups of the Jews and Roma.
What were the estimated number of concentration camps during the Holocaust?
"Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 concentration and death camps to imprison its many millions of victims." Courtesy of The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
How many Nazi Concentration Camps were there by the end of 1937?
By the end of 1937 there was only 5 main Concentration Camps, 4 were in Germany and 1 was in Austria.
How many German concentration camps are there?
none, Germany uses a standard prison system.
How many concentration existed?
Far too many to list in this forum. Nine major camps existed in Poland and there were nine in Germany. Seventeen camps were established in North Africa and most occupied countries also had camps. Camps can be divided into three types by purpose, Transit, Labor and Extermination. The best information source on the web is probably the Jewish Virtual Library. Between 1942 and early 1945 there were about 160 Nazi concentration camps.
During World War 2 did only Germany and the US have concentration camps?
No. The Soviet Union had established the GULAG system many eyars earlier; the Japanese also used concentration camp labour to create many engineering marvels as part of their war-machine.
What are some concentration camps in Germany?
The main concentration camps in Germany proper were Esterwegen, Neuengamme, Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Mittelbau-Dora, Buchenwald, Flossenburg, Dachau, and Grafeneck. Note that while many, many deaths occurred in those camps, they were not built specifically as death camps (except for Grafeneck) - most of the death camps were in Eastern Europe, especially Poland and Czechoslovakia.
How many Nazi concentration camps sprang up throughout Eastern Europe?
There were around 20,000 concentration camps and subcamps established by the Nazis throughout Eastern Europe during World War II. These camps were used for various purposes, including forced labor, mass executions, and extermination. Auschwitz-Birkenau, located in Poland, is one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
What were 4 concentration camps that existed during the holocaust?
There were many concentration camps.That's ever so simple: Bergen Belsen (Germany) Dachau (Germany) Mauthausen Gusen (Austria) Flossenburg (Germany) Auschwitz
The concentration camps were most closely associated with which of these countries?
Germany is the country most associated with concentration camps, since Hitler started many of them to exterminate the Jewish people during World War II.
How many work camps were there in the holocaust?
There were about 20 Concentration Camps, but there were many sub-camps.
Why were there so many concentration camps established in Poland?
Poland had by far the largest Jewish population in the areas under Nazi rule.
