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What year did Germanies allies set the people in the concentration camps free?
Germany's allies, known as the axis, did not free the prisoners in camps. The allied armies freed the prisoners.
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."
How old were kids in concentration camps?
Children ranged in ages from infancy to "of age", meaning they were legally considered adults. Children could be as young as a year old to as old as seventeen. Above that, I assume they were classified as adults.
How were the Jews captured in the first year the holocaust concentration camps opened?
A number of Jews were sent to concentration camps in 1933, but because they were opponents of the Nazis, not simply for being Jews. (The Nazis were at that stage also obsessed with 'Jews in the media' and Jewish journalists and newspaper proprietors had a very rough time).In November 1938 during the Night of the Broken Glass about 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps and by Christmas 1938, 2,000 of these Jews had died.Routine transports of Jews to camps started, at first on a small scale, in 1940; and the wholesale transport of Jews, usually to extermination camps, began in 1941.
How long had the head of Elie Wiesels block been in concentration camps?
Not more or less a year. He said he was 14 at the start of the book and said he was 15 at the end.
What year did the concentration camps end?
1945
What year did concentration camps end?
1943
What year where the Jews saved from concentration camps?
1945
What year did Hitler bring in the death camps?
1933 Concentration camps started in 1933, the Death camps started in 1941.
Who was Rivka in the book the devils arithmetic?
Rivka was a little girl who had no parents or family with her, They all were exterminated in death and concentration camps. Rivka has been in the work camps for 1 year and she helps Chaya and her friends survive by giving them tips on what to do and not do. Without Rivka Chaya would have never survived.
What year did the US enter the concentration camps and free the prisoners?
prisoners the free and camps consentration the enter us the did year what 1945
What year did Hitler start the concentration camps?
as soon as he came to power in 1933.
What year did Germanies allies set the people in the concentration camps free?
Germany's allies, known as the axis, did not free the prisoners in camps. The allied armies freed the prisoners.
What year did Anne Frank got caught?
In 1944 they were discovered.They were divided up and sent to different concentration 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 year were concentration camps used during World War 2?
The first concentration camp was opened on the 22nd March 1933 in Dachau. Hope dis 'elps
What year was the first concentration camp established?
The first concentration camps were established in February of 1933. This was one of the first acts done after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
