It was originally a prisoner-of-war camp.
A little over two years (1943-1945). Before it was a concentration camp, it was a POW camp. It became an extermination camp in 1943 on the orders of Heinrich Himmler.
Hoess was a prisoner during the Weimar Republic, but this was not in a concentration camp.
Not very long. She arrived in Auschwitz concentration camp on September 3, 1944. On October 28, she and her sister were transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they became sick with typhus and died in March 1945, only a short time before the liberation
It was a disused factory.
it was a military fortess
No. In the story The silver sword, there is a prison camp called Zakyna portraying where the father was sent to. He spent a year at the concentration camp before escaping. Lee-Andra ♥'z shane!
It was a concentration camp from March 1933 till April 1945.
She died by a disease (typhus) in March 1945 while in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, a short time before the camp is liberated by the British Army.
It was a concentration camp.
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 44, 10 days before her birthday, 20 days before the camp was liberated by the Red Army.
Banjica concentration camp
Work on extending Auschwitz Concentration Camp to include an extermination camp started in October 1941 and first became operational in March 1942. The main camp (a very harsh concentration camp) had been in existence since May 1940. Please see the related question.