Inmates were forced to work in all of the concentration camps.
Inmates were forced to work in all of the concentration camps.
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"Oberkapo" is a term used in Nazi concentration camps to refer to a prisoner who was in charge of a group of inmates. They were responsible for overseeing and organizing the work details assigned to their group.
Concentration camps , transit camps , forced labour camps (aka) "work camps" , and death camps.
In the early days of Nazi rule (1933) the regime claimed that the concentration camps served two purposes:They kept 'dangerous people' under lock and key.They were educational facilities - designed to teach the inmates the meaning of an honest day's work ...
A work camp is a place where prisoners are forced to do labor. These camps are also sometimes referred to as labor camps.
Although the British are said to have invented and used concentration camps in the Boer War, such camps are mainly associated with Nazi Germany.The Nazis had four main types of camp:The Stalags: prisoner-of-war campsLabour camps: where slave labourers were housedConcentration camps: interim holding campsExtermination camps; where prisoners were murdered soon after arrival.Some concentration camps also has extermination facilities such as gas chambers and incinerators.British and Allied POWs were treated relatively well.Russian and East European POWs were treated very badly, often being starved or murdered.Slave labourers were treated sufficiently well to keep them useful to the Nazi state, but such workers did not last long before they became infirm and were shipped off for extermination.In concentration camps, conditions were hell on earth.In extermination camps, the poor victims did not have long to suffer before they were killed.
Prisoners of German and Japanese Concentration Camps were usually on starvation diets and were worked, generally to death. Many prisoners deemed "unfit to survive" were shot, hung, gassed and then buried in mass graves or cremated and then the ashes spread to the winds. Other camps, such as the Star Camp and Hungarian Camp, the inmates were treated decently.
They were forced into labor camps like slaves, and given back-breaking work. Many died.They were forced into labor camps like slaves, and given back-breaking work. Many died.
They sent the Jews to concentration camps. There were many of these camps. At certain camps, they just strictly killed them. At others, they forced them to do hard labor. Thousands died because of little food and water, they were put into gas chambers, they got very ill, or they were put to work to hard. These concentration camps were pure torture, and were horrible.
1) Work camps, where inmates were payed meager salaries for back breaking work. 2) Standard concentration camps where Jews were worked to death. 3) Death camps where the sole purpose was to destroy as many Jews as possible as quickly as possible.
criminals, inmates, prisoners - take your pick.