How much did it cost to build the concentration camps?
The cost of building a Labor Camp was Zero, Nada, Zilch. It was a profit making enterprise and here is how it worked: Joe gets a contract say to make widgets. He contracts with the SS for slave laborers who are skilled widget makers and pays the Nazi's a fixed price for each laborer for each day that he needs them. Joe's Widget Plant take the slaves and works them to death making widgets. He only feeds them enough to keep them productive and if they die, he contracts with the SS for more laborers. The profits made by the SS were enormous and more than adequate to cover the cost of establishing transit, holding and extermination camps. It was a win - win situation.
What was the difference between the ''concentration camps'' and the ''extermination camps?
Technically all camps were within the concentration camp system, there were labour camps, transit camps and extermination camps. Concentration camps were generally intended for civillians, initially just for criminals, but gradually more types were included. Extermination camps were established about seven and a half years after the first concentration camps. They were much smaller than the average concentration camps (Auschwitz is an exception as it was both), as they only held enough inmates that were…
Did British soldiers get sent to concentration camps?
No, British soldiers taken prisoners by the Gerrmans were sent to prisoner of war (POW) camps, where conditions were much better. A very small number of British prisoners - for example, some of those who kept on trying to escape - were sent to concentration camps. There were also a very small number who were sent to concentration camps by mistake.
Who was affected by the concentration camps?
Well the effects of the concentration camps is that 15 million people was killed in them, Many people was traumatised from their experience in the camps, Twin childrens was experimented on. So basically everyone who was in it went to hell. __________ That figure of 15 million sounds like a high estimate for all Holocaust deaths, using the 'pop' definition of Holocaust). The number of people killed in concentration camps and extermination camps is much…
What were the different categories of camps during the Holocaust?
# Concentration camp, grade I. (Example: Dachau). # Concentration camp, grade II. (Example: Buchenwald). # Concentration camp, grade III. (Example: Auschwitz I). There was not much difference between I and II, except that the food was better at grade I camps. They were all hard labour and punishment camps. Grade III camps were extremely harsh. In addition, there were the extermination camps: * Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) * Belzec * Chelmno * Majdanek (part only) *…