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There were about 600 camps in the us approximately 300,000 people in the camp. In Europe there were about 1000 camps and about 990,000 people in camps.

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How many prisoners were killed during world war 2?

2% died in Germany 30% in Japan


How many political prisoners died during the Holocaust?

Around 200,000 political prisoners were systematically murdered during the Holocaust.


Why was Bataan death march consider a war crime?

Because they killed unarmed prisoners


How many prisoners have been killed by death sentence?

not enough..


Who was in concentration camps?

Concentration camps, originally designed to hold political prisoners, eventually were used to hold Jews, Soviet prisoners, Gypsies, Poles, left of center political prisoners, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, common criminals, etc. Many people in all of these groups were either killed or worked to death, but probably the Jews and the Soviets suffered the greatest number of casualties.


What was it like for German prisoners of war in England in world war 2?

The German prisoners of WWII were worked to the bone until they couldn't work again, any weak ones were killed, and many of them were burned alive.


How many casualties when US dropped atomic bomb during World War 2?

There were 11 American prisoners of war killed by the atomic bomb.


How many prisoners died in thereseinstadt?

there approximitly five thousind killed in thereseinstad


Were the Holocaust prisoners friendly to each other?

That varied a lot. A few prisoners became Kapos and were abominably cruel to the prisoners that they supervised. It is worth mentioning that many of the homosexuals who perished were by killed by other prisoners.


Were any atheists killed in the Holocaust?

* Yes. The Nazis treated the Jews as a race, not a religion, so many of the victims of the Holocaust, especially from Western and Central Europe, were not practicising Jews. * The Nazis also slaughtered Soviet 'political commissars' whom they took prisoners. These were Marxist-Leninists (Communists). The Nazis also killed other Soviet prisoners of war.


What was the Bataan Death March?

The Bataan Death March was a war crime involving the forcible transfer of prisoners of war, with wide-ranging abuse and high fatalities, by Japanese forces in the Philippines, in 1942, during World War II. In Japanese, it is known as Batān Shi no Kōshin meaning the same. apex many American prisoners were killed.


What did Germans do with the prisoners so they wouldn't be liberated?

They killed a lot of them, many were shot or starved, but the thing that killed most of the prisoners was the death marches that the prisoners were forced to undertake. This involved the prisoners, who were already worn out and undernourished, to walk hundreds of miles in extremely cold weather, without any protection or warm clothes, and millions of prisoners died that way.