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The IRC's first and only visit to the concentration camps during WW-II was made on 23 July 1944. This was to Theresienstadt, the model ghetto that was established for just such a purpose. Germany only allowed this visit nine months after the IRC had requested it and that gave them plenty of time to stage the show. The IRC issued a "favorable" report on this visit, and though it was protested, it stood. No follow up was made and the vast majority of these prisoners were transported to Auschwitz.
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That was a visit by the Danish Red Cross, not the IRC. At the time Denmark was under Nazi occupation ...
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How many Nazi concentration camps are still going?
None. The Nazi concentration camps ceased to function (as Nazi concentration camps) with the defeat of Nazi Germany in May, 1945.
What were the Nazi camps called?
Concentration camps.
What were Nazi prison camps called?
Nazi prison camps were called concentration camps.
Why didn't the Red Cross inspect the Nazi concentration camps?
The Nazis provided no access for the Red Cross to the concentration camps, and neither they did not acknowledge the hideous atrocities of the concentration camps to their own country or to the outside world. The Geneva Convention of the 1930's allowed for inspection of Prisoner-of-War camps, but the concentration camps were constrained by no such existing legality.
When did the Nazi concentration camps start?
The Nazi concentration camps started in March 1933. At that time they were mainly for political opponents, not for Jews.Dachau , one of the first Nazi concentration camps, opened in March 1933
What was the original purpose of the Nazi concentration camps?
Originally, the Nazi concentration camps were used mainly for political oponents of the Nazis.
How many nazi soldiers worked in concentration camps?
About 25,000 worked in the Concentration Camps.
The Nazi's established what?
Ghettos, concentration camps and extermination camps.
Were any American civilians killed in Nazi Concentration camps?
There werent American CIVILIANS killed in Nazi Concentration camps. Civillians implies that they were not serving. There were American men in the army who were killed in Nazi Concentration camps, but no civilians.
What years did the Nazi concentration camps operate?
Concentration camps: 1933-1945. Extermination camps: 1941-1945.
Was there still concentration camps after world war 2?
A few ____ The Nazi camps ceased to function as concentration camps.
When were Nazi concentration camps made?
1933
