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.
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What years did the Nazi concentration camps operate?
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Was there still concentration camps after world war 2?
A few ____ The Nazi camps ceased to function as concentration camps.
What years did concentration camps occur?
Nazi camps opperated through the whole Nazi era, 1933-1945. Other concentration camps have existed for far longer.
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The Allies (including Britain) stopped the Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust by invading and defeating Nazi Germany.
When were Nazi concentration camps made?
1933
Were people forced to work in Nazi concentration camps?
Yes. Part of the point of Nazi concentration camps, especially from about 1938 on, was to provide slave labour.
How where nazi treated in concentration?
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The key distinction was between extermination camps and labour camps ("ordinary" concentration camps).
What is a sentence for concentration camps?
The Allies liberated many Nazi and Axis concentration camps in World War Two.The prisoners of war were sent to concentration camps.
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The camps were mainly in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Did nazi Germany have secret concentration camps?
The extermination camps were top secret.
Where were the locations of European concentration camps of World War I?
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What were conditions in the nazi concentration camps like?
Terrible
When did the Nazi concentration camps exist?
1933-1945.
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Nazi concentration camps did not include?
Recreation areas
Nazi concentration camps did not include .?
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