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What types of things were used to kill people in consentration camps?
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Nerve gas, bullets, and fire.
Not many people know that in addition to the concentration camps, the German SS soldiers were eventually allowed to kill any Jew on sight, anywhere.
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What types of camps were there in Germany?
It's common to draw a distinction between 'ordinary' concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald, and extermination camps. The latter existed only for the purpose of killing. They are:Auschwitz II (Birkenau section)BelzecChelmnoMajdanek (part only)SobiborTreblinka IIIn addition, there were transit camps and various 'specialized' camps.
Why were they called concentration camps?
The name in German is (Konzentrationslager) that means concentration camp, at first were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the Nazi empire but after the WW2 began Hitler use the first six concentration camps to hold and exterminate jews, homosexuals, gypsies but later he find out he could use those people for work so he created various types of concentration camps: Labour camps: concentration camps where interned inmates had to do hard physical labour under inhuman conditions and cruel treatment. Some of these camps were sub-camps of bigger camps, or "operational camps", established for a temporary need. Transit and collection camps: camps where inmates were collected and routed to main camps, or temporarily held. POW camps: concentration camps where prisoners of war were held after capture. These POW's endured torture and liquidation in a big scale. Hostage camps: camps where hostages were held and killed as reprisals. Extermination camps: These camps differed from the rest, since not all of them were also concentration-camps. Although none of the categories is independent, and each camp could be classified as a mixture of several of the above, and all camps had some of the elements of an extermination camp, still systematic extermination of new-arrivals occured in very specific camps. Of these, three were extermination camps, where all new-arrivals were simply killed -- The "Reinhardt Aktion" camps. Three others were concentration and extermination camps altogether. Others were at times classified as "minor extermination camps."
What two types of concentration camps in the holocaust?
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.
Were there more than 3 types of camps in the holocaust?
No there was not. Here are the 2 types:Concentration Camps- live, eat, backbreaking labor,etc...Extermination Camps- gas chambers where you would meet your death.
How many types of concentration camps are there?
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 types of work did people do in mining camps?
What the people did in the minning camps was, Gather to collect gold, and as for the women and children, they cooked and ect.
What types of camps are offered by Eagle Lake Camps in Colorado Springs?
Eagle Lake Camps in Colorado Springs offer many types of camps. These include overnight camps and day camps. As well as this there are Rez camps, Horse camps and Excursion camps.
What types of camps did Hitler make?
Concentration Camps Extermination Camps Labour Camps Transit Camps Death Camps.
What are the two types of concentration camps that exist in nazi Europe?
The key distinction was between extermination camps and labour camps ("ordinary" concentration camps).
What changes caused the conentraction camps?
The Nazi's believed that certain types of people were not as equal to them and that they were the cause of their problems. They put Jew's, the mentally challenged, Gypsy's, gay's and other minorities in the camps
What are four types of living things?
the four types of living things is animals,plants,people,matters
What types of camps were there in Germany?
It's common to draw a distinction between 'ordinary' concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald, and extermination camps. The latter existed only for the purpose of killing. They are:Auschwitz II (Birkenau section)BelzecChelmnoMajdanek (part only)SobiborTreblinka IIIn addition, there were transit camps and various 'specialized' camps.
What are things about a community?
different types of people live theredifferent things are therepeople meet other people there
Why were they called concentration camps?
The name in German is (Konzentrationslager) that means concentration camp, at first were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the Nazi empire but after the WW2 began Hitler use the first six concentration camps to hold and exterminate jews, homosexuals, gypsies but later he find out he could use those people for work so he created various types of concentration camps: Labour camps: concentration camps where interned inmates had to do hard physical labour under inhuman conditions and cruel treatment. Some of these camps were sub-camps of bigger camps, or "operational camps", established for a temporary need. Transit and collection camps: camps where inmates were collected and routed to main camps, or temporarily held. POW camps: concentration camps where prisoners of war were held after capture. These POW's endured torture and liquidation in a big scale. Hostage camps: camps where hostages were held and killed as reprisals. Extermination camps: These camps differed from the rest, since not all of them were also concentration-camps. Although none of the categories is independent, and each camp could be classified as a mixture of several of the above, and all camps had some of the elements of an extermination camp, still systematic extermination of new-arrivals occured in very specific camps. Of these, three were extermination camps, where all new-arrivals were simply killed -- The "Reinhardt Aktion" camps. Three others were concentration and extermination camps altogether. Others were at times classified as "minor extermination camps."
Are there Christian church camps for young children in Colorado?
try typing in 'church camps in Colorado' or 'summer camps' and various things like that until you find something or talk to your clergy types about it and see what they know, if not look at other churches to see if they have anything. Washington state has a lot of nice ones but that might be to far.
What was different about civil war camps compared to army camps today?
The difference between the civil war camps compared to the army camps today was technology. The intelligence and the types of weapons used are some of the differences.
What kind of jobs did people have to do in concentration camps?
Apart from the usual cooking and cleaning and the like, there was very often construction to be done, or other types of manual labour. Most often, the majority of the inmates would be employed outside of the camps.
