Concentration camps served two purposes: to demoralize and dehumanize.
Demoralization was accomplished by the extremely regimental daily routine of the camp. Deviating from this routine often resulted in death.
Dehumanization was accomplished by surrounding inmates with death, disease, and unhygienic conditions.
what was Hitler's purpose for sending Jews to concentration camps and what is a concentration camp.
The purpose is to show people how life was like at tose concentration camps, and see what the hardships were, and what they faced. "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it"
No. Most Jews were unaware of the existence and purpose of the Concentration Camps and the Death Camps.
The key disinction is between 'ordinary' concentration camps (such as Dachau or Buchenwald) and extermination camps such as Treblinka and Sobibor. The sole purpose of extermination camps was to kill. Note that Auschwitz and Majdanek combined both kinds of camps.
There were concentration camps in the Holocaust. The concentration camps were basically work/death camps.
There were concentration camps in the Holocaust. The concentration camps were basically work/death camps.
The camps have been turned into museums, tourist attractions. Most also serve as memorials.
to kill jews and put them in concentration camps and also to hold them until they finished building the death camps.
no, that would serve no practical purpose.
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.
what are some examples of concentration camps?
There were no saunas in concentration camps.