He considered that it should be documented, so that people could not deny what went on.
Jews.
European Jews
European Jews
The original artist was Benjamin West. And it was painted in 1770.
Only one concentration camp was converted into a death camp, or rather it was expanded and a death camp was added, this was Auschwitz. The death camps that were had served their purpose, they were created to murder those Jews in the ghettos, when this was done, they were dismantled. There was still a need for a killing centre and with good rail connections and access to coal, Auschwitz was a good location.
He saw the Jewish prisoners that were starved to death.
1. The world must know what happened, and never forget. - General Eisenhower, while visiting nazi death camps, 1945 2. United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory. - General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1944)
Eisenhower. He was a General of the Army (five star General), and is famous for leading and organizing the D-Day invasion of France in 1944. He drove Rommel out of North Africa, and pushed on through France, Holland and eventually Germany to liberate the Jews from the death camps.
General Eisenhower, in a letter to his wife Mamie - "I never dreamed that such cruelty, bestiality, and savagery could really exist in this world." General Eisenhower on viewing the concentration camps - Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some twat will get up and say that this never happened."
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
Death camps were built to kill prisoners systematically
The term death camps (in the Holocaust) refers mainly to extermination camps. Sometimes the very harshest concentration camps (Grade 3, such as Mauthausen) are also called death camps.
Concentration camps were death camps. The people that were scheduled to die were concentrated into areas for easier delivery to the death chambers.
1933 Concentration camps started in 1933, the Death camps started in 1941.
6. The death camps were the ones with gas chambers (or gas vans). The six death camps in Poland were:Auschwitz-BirkenauBelzecChelmnoMajdanekSobiborTreblinkaThe link below should have your answer.
Death camps were a simple way to do mass murders.
Concentration Camps Extermination Camps Labour Camps Transit Camps Death Camps.