100 miles or 160 km
The Nazis operated concentration camps from March 1933 till May 1945.
i doubt that he thought that far, they were created to deal with an existing crisis, no ultimate purpose was considered.
Many of the camps had satellite camps, some of which functioned for only fairly short periods of time. The Wikipedia article - see below - gives the names of the main camps and some information about the satellite camps.
You mean in remote, out of the way places? My opinion would be that concentration camps were built in remote areas to discourage escape and to keep the brutality and inhumanity as far away from the public eye as possible.
Camps, by far. Ghettos held only a couple of million people, where as there were tens of millions in the camps (not all at the same time).
13.7 Million Deaths occurred in the Concentration Camps. _________________ The figure is far, far lower than that.
The Nazis operated concentration camps from March 1933 till May 1945.
As far as victims go: - Jews - Citizens of other Eastern European countries - Political dissenters - Homosexuals - Jehovah's Witnesses - Mentally challenged people - Anyone deemed "undesirable" The concentration camps were run mainly by the SS branch of the Nazi's. This specialized branch of the Nazi regime was much different than the duties of average German soldiers who may not have known the camps even existed.
Poland had by far the largest Jewish population in the areas under Nazi rule.
The whole point of the camps was to house undesirables, so better to ship these people off to the far corners of your land as to be out of the way. ___ The extermination camps were nearly all in Poland for the very simple reason that before the war Poland had by far the largest Jewish population.
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.
i doubt that he thought that far, they were created to deal with an existing crisis, no ultimate purpose was considered.
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The average age is 16-18 months.
From about September 1944 on, the SS began moving prisoners away from camps in Poland to other camps deep inside Germany, and from January 1945 on the prisoners were taken on death marches. The SS also tried, as far as possible, to destroy evidence of the Holocaust.
Please see the link below, which should answer the question as far as Auschwitz is concerned. Most of the larger concentration camps, such as Buchenwald and Dachau, also had crematoria, but they were smaller.
Many of the camps had satellite camps, some of which functioned for only fairly short periods of time. The Wikipedia article - see below - gives the names of the main camps and some information about the satellite camps.