Facts about the concentration camps of world war 2?

Answer 1

• The first Nazi concentration camp was Dachau, set up in 1933.
• There were six extermination camps: Majdanek, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, and Belzec.
• Uprisings were in Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Sobibor. Sobibor was the most successful with 300 out of the 600 prisoners escaping.
• Auschwitz was liberated January 27, 1945; which is now Holocaust Memorial Day.
• There are two known survivors of Belzec.
• At Auschwitz, Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor obsessed with twins, conducted bizarre experiments on twins, giants, dwarfs, pregnant woman, and anything out of the ordinary.
• Heinrich Himmler was responsible for the concentration camps. He committed suicide on May 23, 1945.
• Band of Brothers (2001) episode 9 depicts the liberation of Kaufering IV, a Dachau sub-camp.

Answer 2

Concentration camps were either forced labor camps or death camps. Either way, most inmates were worked until they died. Filthy conditions and minimal food led to many deaths by starvation and disease. In some cases, hideous medical experiments were performed, often to discover better ways to kill prisoners. The people sent to these camps were treated in a totally malicious and inhumane manner. The death camps were part of Hitler's "Final Solution" (genocide of the Jews), although ethnic Polish populations were subject to the same type of methodical extermination.

Answer 3

1. Auschwitz could hold at-least 50,000 people in each set of barracks.

2. 1.2 million Jews were killed..

3. other 125 million reichmarks was made from slave labour.

4. Auschwitz was built in may 1940.

5. It was liberated by the soviet 6th army in January 27 1945.

6. Auschwitz lasted for 4 years 7 months 1 week 2 days.

7. The slogan at the front of the enterence of Auschwitz says "Work Makes you Free."

8. Auschwitz was one of the few camps which used Zyklon B.

9. Auschwitz used the gassing and shootings to kill.

10. Auschwitz is located in South South West of Poland now called Osweicim.

11. Auschwitz was the first camp which used zyklon b gas to kill the Jews.

12. There were many cremation pits inside Auschwitz II (Birkenau) which they used to dispose the dead bodies.

Answer 4

Because of all the work and the beatings the people would get, they fell asleep very quickly during the night. When the morning came, only 40% woke up, the rest (60%) were dead.

Then the others who had survived, would take any bit's of food from the dead people's pockets, whether it was crawling with lice or not. If it was, the lice would be brushed off and then the food was eaten.

Answer 5

There are many facts about the Concentrations but here are seemingly important facts about the Nazi Concentration Camps during the Holocaust.

1. There were about 1,500 Concentration Camps during the Holocaust. Most were opened between 1933-1935 but they were only known as "Wild Camps" and only lasted a few months the best.
2. There were 6 Death and Extermination Camps which caused most of the deaths during the Holocaust. They were called: Auschwitz Birkenau, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno and Majdanek. In total of about 4 Million people were killed in these camps during the Holocaust. About 3.15 Million were Jews alone.
3. Auschwitz was the largest with total area of 60 Sq Kilometers, 40 Sq Kilometers just being the 3 camps including sub-camps alone. However, there were plans to extend the area of Auschwitz to at least 200 Sq Kilometers.
4. Auschwitz and Majdanek were the only camps which were both a Concentration Camp and a Extermination Camp.
5. Life in the Concentration Camps was terrible. Prisoners were forced to do hard physical labor but they were only given small quantity of food to make them last through the day.
6. Each Prison had an ID number, they got it when they arrived at their first camp, At some camps it was tattooed in their arm, others it was on their uniform.
7. When people arrived to the Camps they were separated and selected either to be worked to death or to be killed by Gassing or Shootings (Shootings upto September 1942, Gassing from September 1942- January 1945. They did this by selected fit men from Ages of 15, maybe 13 or 14 depending on how fit they were. Woman, Elderly and Children were usually sentence to the Gas Chambers.
8. During the course of the Holocaust, About 12.5 Million out of 13.3 People were killed in the Concentration Camps where the rest were killed in Ghettos like the Lodz Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto and Krakow Ghetto.
9. Out of over 13 Million People murdered during the Holocaust, about 6.6 Million Jews were killed, along with 3.3 Million Soviet POW's and 2.2 Million Ethnic Poles (Non Jewish Poles). Along with these: Anti-Nazi Christians, Politicians, Homosexuals, Romas, Black People and the Mentally and Physically Disabled.
10. Although many refer to all Nazi camps as "concentration camps," there were actually a number of different kinds of camps such as: Concentration camps, Extermination or Death Camps, Labor Camps, POW Camps, Hostage Camps, Re-habitation and Re-education Camp for Poles and Transit camps.

Answer 6

You probably mean concentration camps, plural, and I understand you mean concentration camps in general, a category which includes extermination camps, both of which the Nazis set up as a way to implement their racist and political goals.

The Nazis herded together (concentrated) all "undesirables" in various prison camps they built in Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe. The first one, Dachau, was originally intended to house political prisoners of the Nazi regime. Eventually, however, the concentration camps became a method of isolating millions of Jews, as well as gypsies, homosexuals, prisoners of war, and others the "Aryans" considered subhuman.

Specific details vary, as some estimate there were thousands of camps, but upon arrival at the camps prisoners were usually stripped of all they owned, inspected for valuables hidden on their persons, shaved, and sometimes tattooed with their prisoner number. They often received striped prisoner uniforms that was of course inadequate in the freezing winters, and sometimes wooden shoes or none at all.

Prisoners were treated inhumanely, facing deliberate malnutrition and starvation, harsh labor, inadequate housing, overcrowding, disease, and brutal treatment at the hands of the Nazi guards - often with the cooperation of local collaborators (even in occupied territory). Families were separated, men and women housed in separate camps or sections (I've heard of family camps, but those were extremely rare, and if they indeed existed it was mostly for German propoganda reasons). At extermination camps, those unfit to work were immediately "eliminated". Eventually the Germans developed a pretty efficient method of killing; the infamous gas chambers. The killings at Auschwitz, for example proceeded at such a rapid pace that the crematorium (which the Nazis built to destroy evidence of their mass murder) could not get rid of the bodies fast enough. That's why Allied forces liberating the concentration camps came across piles of emaciated bodies of those who had been killed or had succumbed to the insane situation.

Please do not believe the version of Nazi camps as the movie "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" depicts it... It seems almost like a summer sleepaway camp and it was so far from it that the movie seems like a fantasy.

It was hell on earth.

I know, because I live in a Jewish community started by people who were there.

And I've seen their numbers and heard their stories.

Answer 7

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