They were all Nazi concentration camps. In addition, part of Auschwitz was an extermination camp.
* Dachau - Near Munich, Bavaria. * Auschwitz I - Near Oswiemcim, about 40 miles SW of Krakow, Poland (then under Nazi occupation). * Birkenau was Auschwitz II and about 1 mile from Auschwitz I (see above). * Buchenwald was near Weimar, Thuringia. Dachau, Auschwitz I and Buchenwald also had several sub-camps, some of which was far away from the main camp.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Buna
All four are the names of different kinds of Nazi camps. * Dachau and Buchenwald were 'ordinary' concentration camps. (Dachau was a Grade I concentration camp, Buchenwald was Grade II - in other words, harsher). * Ravensbrück was a concentration camp for women only. * The Birkenau section of Auschwitz was mainly an extermination camp that carried out mass gassings on a vast scale, but it also included the main hard labour camp for women in the Auschwitz complex of camps.
Yes you can Visit Auschwitz today, 2 years after Auschwitz was liberated, it becomed an Museum.
Buchenwald and Dachau were concentration camps during WWII. Both were liberated in April by American troops.
* Dachau - Near Munich, Bavaria. * Auschwitz I - Near Oswiemcim, about 40 miles SW of Krakow, Poland (then under Nazi occupation). * Birkenau was Auschwitz II and about 1 mile from Auschwitz I (see above). * Buchenwald was near Weimar, Thuringia. Dachau, Auschwitz I and Buchenwald also had several sub-camps, some of which was far away from the main camp.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Buna
All four are the names of different kinds of Nazi camps. * Dachau and Buchenwald were 'ordinary' concentration camps. (Dachau was a Grade I concentration camp, Buchenwald was Grade II - in other words, harsher). * Ravensbrück was a concentration camp for women only. * The Birkenau section of Auschwitz was mainly an extermination camp that carried out mass gassings on a vast scale, but it also included the main hard labour camp for women in the Auschwitz complex of camps.
All four are the names of different kinds of Nazi camps. * Dachau and Buchenwald were 'ordinary' concentration camps. (Dachau was a Grade I concentration camp, Buchenwald was Grade II - in other words, harsher). * Ravensbrück was a concentration camp for women only. * The Birkenau section of Auschwitz was mainly an extermination camp that carried out mass gassings on a vast scale, but it also included the main hard labour camp for women in the Auschwitz complex of camps.
Yes you can Visit Auschwitz today, 2 years after Auschwitz was liberated, it becomed an Museum.
* Parts of Auschwitz I and II * A small part of Buchenwald * Part of Majdanek * Dachau
Buchenwald and Dachau were concentration camps during WWII. Both were liberated in April by American troops.
Notably , Auschwitz concentration camp was both the largest and notorious . Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Theresienstadt, Treblinka and T.II
Buchenwald (and Dachau, and Belzek) were created in 1933.
No, both Auschwitz and Dachau were Concentration Camps durinng the Holocaust.
There were 100s of concentration camps. See related link for list of most of them. To give an example of 3 concentration campsAuschwitz extermination camp in PolandDachau concentration in GermanyBelzec extermination camp in Poland
It is known that Germans built over 2000 camps and sub-camps in occupied Europe. Auschwitz is the most famous but which is second best known varies. Bergen-Belsen or Majdanek is likely the second best known.