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How many concentration existed?
Far too many to list in this forum. Nine major camps existed in Poland and there were nine in Germany. Seventeen camps were established in North Africa and most occupied countries also had camps. Camps can be divided into three types by purpose, Transit, Labor and Extermination. The best information source on the web is probably the Jewish Virtual Library. Between 1942 and early 1945 there were about 160 Nazi concentration camps.
How many concentration camps in Germany were there back in 1940?
Back in 1940, there were five concentration camps in Germany. These camps were established to eradicate resistance groups, political prisoners, racial groups of the Jews and Roma.
Which countries have concentration camps now?
Please see the related question and the links from there. The extermination camps were in Nazi occupied Poland. Many of the ordinary concentration camps were in Germany, but there were also some in Poland.
How many concentration camps are called death camps?
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.
How many Nazi concentration camps sprang up throughout Eastern Europe?
There were around 20,000 concentration camps and subcamps established by the Nazis throughout Eastern Europe during World War II. These camps were used for various purposes, including forced labor, mass executions, and extermination. Auschwitz-Birkenau, located in Poland, is one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
Where were the camps in the holocoast?
There were many concentration camps all over Europe, but most were concentrated in Poland, Germany and around Yugoslavia. The six extermination camps were all located in Poland, those being Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz, Maidanek and Belzec.
Is there a map that shows where the death camps in Poland were?
The German occupiers set-up labour, concentration and death camps in occupied Poland. The Nazi created the death camps of Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), Chełmno, Bełżec, Majdanek, Sobibór and Treblinka. The Nazi German also created many concentration camps such as Auschwitz I.
How many concentration camps where in Poland?
The Germans set-up many camps in occupied Poland perhaps 2,000. These included concentration and labour camps mostly for ethnic Poles. There were also ghettos and death camps most for ethnic Jews.
Where was the place when the 6 million Jews were killed?
The entirety of Europe. About half were killed in Poland, where many concentration camps were located.
How many death camps in the world?
Unfortunately, there were dozens upon dozens of death camps, or concentration camps as the Nazis preferred to call them. However, they were all centered in Germany and Poland. Poland was primarily where the camps were because that was basically 'Jew central'. It was also the first country in the war to be invaded and conquered.
What are some concentration camps in Germany?
The main concentration camps in Germany proper were Esterwegen, Neuengamme, Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Mittelbau-Dora, Buchenwald, Flossenburg, Dachau, and Grafeneck. Note that while many, many deaths occurred in those camps, they were not built specifically as death camps (except for Grafeneck) - most of the death camps were in Eastern Europe, especially Poland and Czechoslovakia.
How many concentration camps can you visit?
The following have museums: * Auschwitz (Oswiemcim, near Krakow, Poland) * Majdanek (in Lublin, Poland) * Dachau (near Munich, Germany) * Buchenwald (near Weimar, Germany) There are various monuments and memorials on the sites of many other camps, including: * Treblinka (Poland) * Belzec (Poland) * Bergen-Belsen (Germany) The lists are not complete.
