The concentration camps were an invention of the Third Reich as a place to send anyone who they considered inferior or dangerous to the Reich. Once Germany was defeated, the concentration camp system came to an end. The few survivors went to resettlement camps, and eventually picked up the threads of their lives from there.
there was nothing wrong or illegal about concentration camps. It was what people in them did that was wrong.
There was no 'international policeman' to stop them.
The Allies (including Britain) stopped the Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust by invading and defeating Nazi Germany.
when Germany surrendered to the allies
the people running the camps ran away or surrendered
There were concentration camps in the Holocaust. The concentration camps were basically work/death camps.
There were concentration camps in the Holocaust. The concentration camps were basically work/death camps.
Allied troops overran Nazi positions in 1945 and liberated the camps through direct military force.
There were no saunas in concentration camps.
what are some examples of concentration camps?
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
many people thought it was to horrific to be true