When did Russian labor camps begin to be used?

Transit camps were places to hold people until they could be shipped off to other camps such as execution or forced-labor camps.

== == The following are the types of camps that were used in the Holocaust: * "Concentration camps" is the generic term for the prison camps maintained by the Third Reich. * "Labor camps" were those that were maintained for the purpose of exploiting slave labor. * "Extermination camps" were six camps located in Poland where the mass murder of Jews and others took place. Many of the concentration camps were complexes of several camps… Read More

Russian were put into hard labor camps. Women, old men, and children under 12, were put to work. These people made all of the product that the USSR used. Almost 14 million of these people died either by shelling or bombing, or the taking of a city.

Both were involuntary but legal restraints on citizens. The concentration camps were further used to exploit their victims of their labor at the risk of their lives.

yes and no, gulags are no longer used for labor camps such as they were durning WW2 but they are still used as historic sites and miltary camps

Assuming you are asking about the ones in Germany during WWII. They were used for slave labor.

The company used worked labor and that was a crime.

Although the British are said to have invented and used concentration camps in the Boer War, such camps are mainly associated with Nazi Germany. The Nazis had four main types of camp: The Stalags: prisoner-of-war camps Labour camps: where slave labourers were housed Concentration camps: interim holding camps Extermination camps; where prisoners were murdered soon after arrival. Some concentration camps also has extermination facilities such as gas chambers and incinerators. British and Allied POWs were… Read More

It was not the Soviets who ran Jewish concentration camps. It was the Nazi Germans who ran the Jewish concentration camps as part of their final solution to rid the world of Jews and other undesirables. ***I came back to this question to add this information from Wikipedia under the heading of List of concentration and internment camps. Russia and the Soviet Union In Imperial Russia, labor camps were known by the name katorga. In… Read More

In simple terms: Most were murdered, the remaining were used as slave labor & starved.

German concentration camps were mostly extermination or death camps designed to murder the inmates, primarily Jews. Some camps also sent out inmates to be used as slave labor. Slave labor was often outside the camp at a factory, railyard, rock quarry, underground mine, etc. Also all camps used the inmates to perform some sort of work at the camps themselves. All the German camps were operated in total violation of international law and well outside… Read More

They took people to concentration camps in order to work them to death through manual labor. At some camps they killed prisoners with chemicals or other physical means. they used gas chamber to kill Jews

Millions were kept in concentration camps and hundreds of thousand were used for slave labor. Six millon were killed. It is hard to have a completely accurate number because many of the documents about the prisoners were burned.

Most of the land east of the Ural Mountains in Russia is Siberia.

The Germans had many different kinds of camps. There were work camps, forced labor camps, concentration camps, extermination camps and others. Some Jews died even in the ordinary work camps. Are you asking how many Jews were sent to Auschwitz, the main extermination camp? We think that more than 4.4 Million Jews were sent to various German camps to work or to be executed. A few German Allies had their own camps, but they didn't… Read More

Death Camps (or extermination camps) were used for the immediate extermination of Jews and other groups while Concentration camps were used for the Jews and other groups to make products for the Nazi war machine. In labour camps people were made to do work; often being mistreated and forced to do hard labour until they died. In death camps they were just killed when they arrived. Concentration camp inmates were sent to work for a… Read More

Internment camps (primarily used on Japanese people) was meant for only detaining them. Concentration camps (primarily used on Jews, Gypsies, Poles, and POWs) could be used for labor, extermination, experimentation, detainment, and many other reasons.

Yes. In the scene where the captain of the Red October announces the psudo-orders to the crew, they begin singing the Russian national anthem.

In this answer the term death camp is taken to mean extermination camp, and not simply a concentration camp with a high death toll. All extermination camps used some inmates as labourers to help with corpse disposal and some other tasks. There were two dual camps of this kind: Auschwitz - A part of Auschwitz-Birkenau (also referred to as Auschwitz II) was an extermination camp, while Auschwitz I, III and the satellite camps were extremely… Read More

because slavery was used to provide cheap labor to farms and plantation

Bolshaviks There were several revolutionary parties: the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, which was split into Menshevik and Bolshevik sides. In addition there were the Social Revolutionaries. This was a large revolutionary party, which used terrorism and violence to achieve its aims.

Anything imaginable, from counterfeiting bank notes to making armaments. Menial labor like chopping down trees for lumber, working in mines, making German uniforms, forging works of art. Any job that forced labor could be used for, made available another soldier for the Fatherland.

Japanese treatment of POW's was far more brutal when compared to German treatment of POWs (bear in mind, Aussies were not of the same ethnicity as Pole or Russian soldiers, who received the worst treatment from Germans). Japan used POWs for slave labor (eg:Burma-Thai Railroad, "Bridge over River Kwai") and were subjected to vivisections, experiments, and overall barbaric treatment. A simple statistic illustrates the difference most clearly. 98% of POWs returned from German POW camps… Read More

They deportated, show trialed, and executed anyone who didn't show obedince. He also used purges and the threat or useage of gulag labor camps.

Auschwitz is infamous for being the location of a group of concentration camps established by the Nazis, used for the forced labor and systematic murder of human beings in World War 2.

Nazi Germany in 1945, as they had used prison camps as slave labor. Before that, in 1936 Great Britain was still using slavery in African colonies.

That is an unexpected Question. To the sane person, there is no justification for having Death Camps. Only someone with the mind of Hitler could think that death camps were the best solution for the world's problems. Hitler could have used these people as slave labor without killing them. That makes a lot more sense. He was out to change the culture and race of Europe and he thought the best method to do this… Read More

Concentration Camps Transit Camps Labour Camps Death Camps Extermination Camps.

A labor camp was a place that made you work to death not immediately but slowly. Labour camps, are as it says camps used for labour. These particular camps were greatly used during wars. Adolf Hitler was a big supporter of Labour camps, and so was the U.S (sadley) when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The Labour Camps consisted of work, work, work, cold showers, bitter food, well barley any food, and work. No clean clothes… Read More

Concentration camps.

No the first concentration camp was build in 1890s by acub during the cuban war of independence in 1895. Actually, what we now call concentration camps were formerly called prison or (more commonly) forced labor camps. As such, they have been used throughout human civilization's history, and are hardly a Nazi invention. The Nazi death camps (Auschwitz-Birkenau, et al) are, however, unique, in that the idea of a camp to immediately kill via industrial means… Read More

The book "Thoughts About Women and the Holocaust" by Ringleheim, says that more women than men were killed. The men were used for slave labor. The women were often killed on their arrival in the camps.

because they used that phrase to persuade the jews to work harder for the germans, and the work that they were doing was just keeping them in the forced labor camps and not setting them free whatsoever.

Slavery has been around since ancient times so no one knows for sure when it started. Slaves were used for labor and other duties.

There have been and are many euphemisms used at various times, these include; resettlement camps, re-education camps, prison camps and personal protection camps.

There was 5 different types of Camps but here is 2 most common. Concentration Camps Extermination Camps

The word Night is often used to describe a dark moment, evil, bad and so on. In this case, Night is used to describe the Jew's darkest moments, and the hardship and evil moments they have encountered while in labor camps.

Yes, in Sioux Falls and Yankton. Edit: The Sioux Falls and Yankton camps were branch POW camps of the main POW camp in Algona Iowa. The POW camp in Algona had a total of 34 branch camps in IA, MN, SD and ND. There was also main POW camp in Igloo SD that administered six branch POW camps in western SD, including POW camps at Ft Meade (near Sturgis) and Belle Fourche. POW's did much… Read More

There were no saunas in concentration camps.

concentration camps were used to make peoples lives miserable

At some specific camps, commonly called death camps, or extermination camps, yes. There were two sets of camps, one used carbon monoxide in gas vans, and the other used hydrogen cyanide (Zyclon-B) in gas chambers.

The camps used for the systematic killing of the Jews and gypsies were extermination camps. Please see the related question.

The NAZI's used Gas Chambers in extermination/ death camps. The prisoners were shipped the camps and crammed into chambers, which they were tricked to believe were showers. The gas was released and by the time they realized what was going on, it was too late. They all suffered and died by falling and piling on top of each other. Women and children (infants as well) were kept together. Men were put in another chamber, with… Read More

ordered by Hitler to concentrate enemies of Hitlers Reich into prison camps.... but concentation camps originated in America. The United States used concentation camps before Hitler. They used the concentation camps on the Native Americans. look up fort sumner in New Mexico. The navajo people were forced to be in these camps way before the jews.

the railcars were used to transport the people in the concentration camps to diffrent camps.

The internment and execution of nearly 6 million Jews in Europe mostly in Poland and Germany. There were many such death camps including Buchenwald, Auschwitz and Dachau where Jew were systematically used as forced labor and then executed usually by gas.

When Germany invaded France they took over Paris and many other cities. They took over the coastline to prepare for the invasion of the Allies. They captured Jews and sent them to concentration camps to be used as slave labor or to murder.

About 1,500. This staggering figure includes all satellite camps, including temporary camps. There were about 20 main camps (Stammlager). Most concentration camps had many sub-camps, many of them labour camps that only functioned for a short time. The list below from the German-language Wikipedia is very good. There is a link below to the list issued by the Federal German Ministry of Justice. This can be assumed to be more or less definitive. (The figure… Read More

Before the declared start of WWII in 1939 there had been many concentration camps. As soon as the National Socialists were voted into power they started using such, with Dachau as the first bigger one, and used the same name as the British had used for their concentration camps in Africa. The Nazis interned dissidents and soon also Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals etc. Stalin had used concentration camps for suspected dissidents for years, and Germans were… Read More

Before the declared start of WWII in 1939 there had been many concentration camps. As soon as the National Socialists were voted into power they started using such, with Dachau as the first bigger one, and used the same name as the British had used for their concentration camps in Africa. The Nazis interned dissidents and soon also Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals etc. Stalin had used concentration camps for suspected dissidents for years, and Germans were… Read More