Contrary to a widespread misconception, Dachau was not an extermination camp ...
"Over its twelve years as a concentration camp, the Dachau administration recorded the intake of 206,206 prisoners and 31,951 deaths. Crematoria were constructed to dispose of the deceased" (Source: Wikipedia article on Dachau, accessed on 9 November 2010).
Most of the Jews who were killed at Dachau were sent there as political prisoners and not primarily because they were Jews.
21,000 Jews were liberated by the United States Army from Buchenwald Concentration Camp. A few did not survive.
about a million Jews died in Auschwitz.
Around 2,000
The German Wikipedia article on Buchenwald gives the total number of prisoners killed at Buchenwald as 56,000 - of whom 11,000 were Jews. (Note that Buchenwald not an extermination camp and was not specifically for Jews).
around just 8% of Jews survived concentration camps.
6,000 People including Jews and people of other races were killed in the Janowska Concentration Camp.
Approximately 200,000 people survived auschwitz concentration camps , most of them was Jews, Soviet POWs and couple of gypsies and 1 or 2 homosexuals.
They captured Jews and sent all of them to concentration camps, where the Jews eventually died. Only a few Jews out of every camp actually survived. In the concentration camps, they Jews were burned, starved, raped, stabbed, and tortured.
Figuratively speaking, the liberators discovered the walking dead. Jews, foreign nationals & political prisoners were discovered unattended after the SS abandoned the camp. Across a road from the Buchenwald camp was discovered a Panzer (Armor) training school. Although Buchenwald was not designated as a "Death Camp", an area for executions was discovered. There were crematoriums established to handle the numerous corpses. The name "Buchenwald" translates, I believe, into "Beech Grove".
Klaus Drobisch has written: 'Widerstand in Buchenwald' -- subject(s): Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 'Juden unterm Hakenkreuz' -- subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews, History 'Christen im Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland' -- subject(s): Anti-Nazi movement, Nationalkomitee \Freies Deutschland.\ 'Widerstand hinter Stacheldraht' -- subject(s): Anti-Nazi movement, Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
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Read the passage below from Barack Obama's 2013 speech at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. What evidence does this excerpt provide to support the conclusion that Nazis pursued a policy of genocide toward Jews during World War
Death marches transported Jews from concentration camp to concentration camp as the Allies neared.
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