attempt to escape if they are fit
work out a way to escape if they are average
and wait to die if they are weak
A commandant is the officer in command of either a prisoner of war camp OR a concentration camp.
There's some confusion here. Some prisoners were given positions of responsibilty inside concentration camps. They were called Kapos or Capos. Obviously, no prisoner was ever 'in charge of a concentration camp'.
When any prisoner smelled upon arriving at the concentration camp, he or she was ordered to go to the showers. The showers were actually gas chambers where the prisoner would die.
Yes, prisoners at the Flossenbürg concentration camp were tattooed. In many concentration camps, including Flossenbürg, prisoners were marked with a series of numbers as a means of identification. These tattoos were typically placed on the prisoner's forearm.
It was a concentration camp.
Hoess was a prisoner during the Weimar Republic, but this was not in a concentration camp.
It was originally a prisoner-of-war camp.
A commandant was the head of a prisoner of war camp or a concentration camp.
A commandant is the officer in command of either a prisoner of war camp OR a concentration camp.
There's some confusion here. Some prisoners were given positions of responsibilty inside concentration camps. They were called Kapos or Capos. Obviously, no prisoner was ever 'in charge of a concentration camp'.
When any prisoner smelled upon arriving at the concentration camp, he or she was ordered to go to the showers. The showers were actually gas chambers where the prisoner would die.
The camp slang was musselman.
Camps for political prisoners have been called a detention center, a concentration camp, prisoner of war camp, labor camp, or gulag.
it was where they kept the prisoner s and made them work and was basically like a jail
The prisoner's are shipped by packed cattle car to the concentration camp, separated men from women, guards hold guns to them at every turn
Buchenwald was one of the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany as well as one of the largest. It was not an extermination camp, but still had a large number of prisoner deaths. The approximate number of deaths at the camp was 56,545.
Anne feels lucky because she's not in a concentration camp