Manzanar was the most widely known camp............................ there were 10 camps total: AMACHE, GILA RIVER, HEART MOUNTAIN, JEROME, MANZANAR, MINIDOKA, POSTON, ROHWER, TOPAZ, TULE LAKE
Germany is the country most associated with concentration camps, since Hitler started many of them to exterminate the Jewish people during World War II.
There were many concentration camps established and run by the Nazis during WW2, in various countries. Two of the most familiar names among such camps were Belsen (Bergen-Belsen) and Auschwitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau). A list of Nazi concentration and extermination camps, along with other information and references can be found at Wikipedia, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps
To crush the Axis threat and eliminate the concentration camps, liberating all the prisoners.
Most, if not all, experiments happened in the concentration camps.
* Transit camps, where prisoners were held till they were moved to other kinds of camps. * Concentration Camps, Grade I - for example, Dachau. * Concentration Camps, Grade II - for example, Buchenwald. (These were harsher than Grade I camps and there was less food than at Grade I camps). * Concentration Camps, Grade III - for example, Auschwitz I and III. (Harsher and with less food than in Grade II camps - very high death rates). * Extermination camps - most of Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Treblinka II, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, Maly Trostenets and one section of Majdanek. These camps were designed as killing centres and nothing else. In addition, there were also concentration camps for 'difficult children' (!) aged 12+ and later even 2+ ...
Germany is the country most associated with concentration camps, since Hitler started many of them to exterminate the Jewish people during World War II.
There was a lot going on in the world, and that was the main reason why other countries were unable to liberate concentration camps. There was so much fighting going on with so many countries. There was little that most countries could do to help anyone else.
I think because of the Holocaust, most of the concentration camps were in Europe.
The most famous World War 2 concentration camps were located in Auschwitz (Poland), Dachau (Germany), and Treblinka (Poland). These camps were established by the Nazi regime and were responsible for the imprisonment and killing of millions of people during the Holocaust.
Auschwitz, the most infamous of the camps, has been maintained as a memorial.
In WWI most Jewish men fought on the side if the Germans.....there were no camps.
Auschwitz- Birkenau Treblinka Chelmno
Most concentration camps were liberated by the allied forces towards the end of the war.
There were many concentration camps established and run by the Nazis during WW2, in various countries. Two of the most familiar names among such camps were Belsen (Bergen-Belsen) and Auschwitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau). A list of Nazi concentration and extermination camps, along with other information and references can be found at Wikipedia, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
In the concentration camps, Jews and everyone else marched around the camps.
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