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What was the term for a prisioner who was in charge of other inmates in Nazi concentration camps?
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The term was Kapo, sometimes spelled Capo.
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What rights did Jews have in concentration camps?
The inmates of concentration camps had no rights at all.
What is nazi camps where inmates were forced to work?
Inmates were forced to work in all of the concentration camps.
What is the nazi camps where inmates were forced to work?
Inmates were forced to work in all of the concentration camps.
Were Jews beaten in concentration camps?
yes, all inmates were beaten in concentration camps.
What happened if you escaped nazi concentration camps?
they found you every prisioner had a number
Why were did the pajamas have to be striped in concentration camps?
The uniforms of the inmates in concentration camps did not have to be striped, this was just the design chosen for all camps across the Reich.
What did the us soldiers not found when they liberated concentration camps?
The Nazis who killed the inmates and not much documents about the camps
What is the name for the camps that the Nazis put the Jews in?
Concentration & Extermination Camps.Concentration camps are where the inmates were forced to do hard labour and were tortured.Extermination camps, a.k.a death camps, where were the inmates were put straight to death by the gas chambers.
When Hitler was a dictator what kind of camps were the Jews sent to?
Extermination camps (killing centres).Concentration camps (harsh forced labour camps, where the inmates were generally worked to death).Combined extermation and concentration camps.
What does oberkapo mean?
"Oberkapo" is a term used in Nazi concentration camps to refer to a prisoner who was in charge of a group of inmates. They were responsible for overseeing and organizing the work details assigned to their group.
Who were the first immates of the first concentration camp?
The first inmates of Nazi concentration camps were Communists, Social Democrats and various political dissidents. (The first inmates of the first concentration camp was women and children of the Boer nation in South Africa - 1898) (There were also Spanish concentration camps in Cuba in the mid 1895s).
What was different between the extermination camps and the concentration camps?
Technically all camps were within the concentration camp system, there were labour camps, transit camps and extermination camps. Concentration camps were generally intended for civillians, initially just for criminals, but gradually more types were included. Extermination camps were established about seven and a half years after the first concentration camps. They were much smaller than the average concentration camps (Auschwitz is an exception as it was both), as they only held enough inmates that were needed to opperate the gas chambers/vans and the cramatoria.
