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It was a part of the 'intake' process to the camps. Persons determined to be of no value as labor would be sent for immediate extermination, the old, the very young, the ill and the infirm were of little or no value to the Nazi slave labor camps. Sometimes people were saved because a certain skill was in short supply like cobblers, or tailors or machinists. It was an important part of the program to exploit fully anyone of use before they were killed.
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Routine selections were carried only out at Auschwitz, not at other camps. At extermination camps, a very small number of men were sometimes selected to help sort valuables and get rid of the corpses, but the point of these camps was industrial-style killing. All other camps were, by definition, forced labour camps.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoSelection was done by German SS personnel. All working age men and physical fit women were sent in one direction (to be worked to death) and all older men and women as well as children were sent in another direction (to be gassed to death).
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∙ 11y agoSelections were the process of who was 'fit', who could work and who couldn't. Those who couldn't were gassed.
Selections upon arrival at Auschwitz were the process of who would be sent to forced labor and who would be sent to the gas chambers automatically. Women, elderly, children would be sent to the right to die, and the men to the left.
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∙ 15y agoNewly arrived Jews were given a quick glance by SS doctors. Those considered unfit for work because they were too old, too young or had obvious infirmities and visibly pregnant women were sent to the gas chambers and the others were selected (chosen) for slave labour.
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∙ 12y agoIt wasn't good. The SS guards of the camp(s) would force the prisoners out of the barracks, make them run around naked, and do medical examinations on them. If you were healthy, you remained in the camp; if you were sick, however, you were killed.
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∙ 12y agoif they fit any category of criminal, then they were selected for the camps.
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What was the deference between the concentration camps and the extermination camps?
concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
What was it like for people in concentration camps set up in Britain?
There were no concentration camps in Britain. There's some confusion here.
What was Belgium concentration camp like?
There was no concentration camp called "Belgium". There were, however, concentration camps in Belgium.
Where were Jews forced to lived?
concentration camps or death camps Edit: Like the above said, they were sent to concentration camps. Although, if they were healthy the Jew was then send to work camps, but before this they lived in the ghettos. (or they had to go hide.)
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 was the deference between the concentration camps and the extermination camps?
concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
Was Hitler in the concentration camp?
No, Hitler never went into the Concentration Camps because, he could have caught diseases like Typhus which were common in Concentration Camps.
What were the concentration camps really like?
Nasty
What was it like for people in concentration camps set up in Britain?
There were no concentration camps in Britain. There's some confusion here.
What was life like for kids in the concentration camps?
brief.
What was it like for the Jews at the concentration camps?
It was a living hell.
What was Belgium concentration camp like?
There was no concentration camp called "Belgium". There were, however, concentration camps in Belgium.
Where were Jews forced to lived?
concentration camps or death camps Edit: Like the above said, they were sent to concentration camps. Although, if they were healthy the Jew was then send to work camps, but before this they lived in the ghettos. (or they had to go hide.)
What were the concentration camps like at night?
In the winter is was very cold.
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 did you do at majdanek concentration camp in Poland?
Like at any other concentration camps Physcial labour and killing
What were the concentration camp like for the Indians?
It was not indians that were in concentration camps. However during world war 2 the nazis under order of hitler took jewish people and captured them unwillingly into the concentration camps.
