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 ...
None. The Nazi concentration camps ceased to function (as Nazi concentration camps) with the defeat of Nazi Germany in May, 1945.
Concentration camps.
Nazi prison camps were called 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.
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
Originally, the Nazi concentration camps were used mainly for political oponents of the Nazis.
About 25,000 worked in the Concentration Camps.
Ghettos, concentration camps and extermination 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.
Concentration camps: 1933-1945. Extermination camps: 1941-1945.
A few ____ The Nazi camps ceased to function as concentration camps.
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