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Holocaust
The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.
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What countries helped the Jews during the Holocaust?
Some individuals helped: no country helped as a country.
IMPROVE: It is true that no complete country, as one, had completely hid the Jews.
However, in countries in Poland, many people helped hide thousands of Jews. The Poles and Polish Jews were allied with each other because they just wanted to protect their homeland and defend their freedom from the Germans that invaded Poland.
There are some other country's people that helped. In Bulgaria, they managed to save their entire Jewish population from deportation and shipment to concentration camps.
In Albania, the people stood and protected their Jews because they were Muslim, and they believed in their religious morals.
What did the Nazis do to punish the Jews?
Years before the war, concentration camps were set up in Germany where Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, political prisoners, Catholics, Jehovah Witnesses, and others were forced into slave labor until they died of starvation or disease.
As the war opened, Germany terrorized towns using a tactic called Einsatzgruppen, where the Jewish men and young men were led to ditches that they dug out themselves and were shot and killed. They went back into the towns and killed the women and all the children. Many towns in Eastern Europe were exterminated.
Nazi officials started to take offense to this method to them, it was to personal. So, starting in 1942, Death camps were set up in the conquered countries but not in Germany. First, the Jews were forced into ghettos and then traveled by train boxed in like animals. There was no food, very little air and no place to relieve themselves. Those who survived, were led to these death camps where the children were taken away from the parents and were euthanized with poison gas as they were told they were going to take a shower.
The same went for men and women who could not work. The rest went into slave labor where they were virtually starved to death or died of disease such as Anne Frank and her sister, Margo, succumbed to. Their mother was instantly euthanized at Auschwitz.
There were 6 death camps in Poland and one in Minsk, Belarus (when it was part of Russia). The most famous one is Auschwitz. The bodies of the dead in the gas chambers were transported to crematoriums to burn any evidence they were alive, but that failed. The Jews who were either shot or died of starvation or disease, were buried in mass graves.
The transportation of the bodies to both the crematorium and the graves were done by Jewish slaves of the camps. The act of killing a racial or cultural group is called genocide. A total of 6 million Jews were killed with total of about 12-17 million in all were killed by the Nazis.
Anne Frank was under 16 years of age which meant she should have been automatically sent to the gas chamber. But she stated she was 16 and the Nazi's believed her and thus spared, only for several months.
Was Otto Frank a survivor of the Holocaust?
After being discovered with his family in August, 1944 he only stayed in Auschwitz from September, 1944 to January, 1945 when Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops. Although that three months had already been long enough to put him in the sick bay, it hadn't been long enough for him to die. His daughter Anne had been transported on to the Bergen-Belsen camp where a typhus epidemy broke out that killed her.
How many barracks did Auschwitz have?
It in unclear whether you are asking how many sections and sub-camps Auschwitz had, or whether you want to know the total number of death camps. Auschwitz was a vast complex and had about 40 satellite camps, some of them over 80 miles from the main camp. * Auschwitz I was the original camp, built in 1940 for Polish dissidents and intellectuals. It was later used for a wide range of prisoners and was an extremely harsh forced labour camp, where most of the prisoners were worked to death. * Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was the section with the (main) gas chambers. It was primarily an extermination camp. Most new arrivals were gassed soon after arrival. Auschwitz II also housed a forced labour camp for women. For a time the women who worked there were allowed to keep their children. For about 12 months from November 1943 onwards Birkenau was a separate camp, but was then merged back into the Auschwitz network. * Auschwitz III (Monowitz) was a 'private entreprise camp', built and owned by I.-G. Farben and was a chemicals plant producing polymers. Though owned privately, the day-to-day supervision of the workforce was in the hands of the SS. For a list of all the Nazi extermination camps please see the related question below.
Where were all the concentration camps in Germany?
Actually, the more harsher camps were located in Poland. Anyway, these camps were places in which the Nazis kept anyone who Hitler didn't like. For example: Jewish, Catholics, Gypsies. Unfortunately, these camps were actually death camps.
Why were prisoners tattooed at the Concentration Camps?
1. According to a Holocaust survivor that came and spoke at our school, there were two people at a table, one held the person's arm down and told the other man the number. The second man picked up an instrument that looked like a stick with a needle at the end. He would use the needle and trace the numbers in the skin, and then rub ink into it.
2. The Nazis tatooed prisoners in the camps because it was one of their ways to make you feel inhuman. They tatooed you and made you like everyone in the camps. They tatooed you so it was easier on them to count prisoners and keep track of you. Add comments, -round Rupert
3. The Nazis were also very aware of the way in which many Jews blindly followed their religion. (As a sheep would follow a Shepard) Many religions teach you that your body is your temple, hand sculpted by God himself and to mark it is a horrific
sin. Many people believe it was used to keep track of the prisioners. While this does hold SOME truth, it is filtered out again with the main attraction the Nazis had been seduced by from the very beginning, dehumanization. Afterall, aren't our cattle tagged before they are sold?
What punishments did the prisoners have in the concentration camps?
Some times they got gased, shot, starved and got hung.
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The Nazis were ardent believers in physical punishment, so they were very keen on severe whippings. For offences that they regarded as serious they somethimes tied a prisoner's wrists behind his/her back and hoisted him/her off the ground for a period of time.
How were the Jews tortured in the Holocaust?
The Nazis had various methods for torturing Jews. The first torture was the train transport to the camps often lasting several days without food or water, crowded into cattle trucks.
the Jews were then split up and their hair was cut this was to be done naked and under the eyes of anyone this means girls of all ages would have had their hair cut whilst naked by men who were 40 and same for men who would have had their hair cut by women
Jews were not allowed to have hair so whenever their hair was growing too long they would be put through the same procedure again (most Jews would have been dead after 3 of them)
after the haircuts the Jews would be selected for gassing this meant they would all be placed in a room and that mustard gas would be sprayed on them
If they survived selection for gassing, most Jews were slowly and systematically starved to death. This was made even worse because while they were being denied proper food, they were expected to do manual labour for long hours, despite being hungry and thirsty. Typical rations at a camp would consist of a cup of black coffee and a slice of bread for breakfast. Lunch was watery soup with some added cereal, and supper was a cup of water and another slice of bread. Once a week they might get a piece of sausage or jam, so while the food was not non-existent, it was calculated to starve the Jews into corpses.
Guards beat those prisoners who they felt were not working hard enough. Sometimes the guards beat the prisoners for no reason at all. Prisoners were routinely shot or selected for gassing for minor transgressions. If the prisoners became too thin to work, then there were regular selections where the weak ones would be selected for gassing. Sometimes Jews were publicly hanged at roll call time.
Other Jewish prisoners froze to death because they were not allowed to have any warm clothing or protection from the elements, and winters were very harsh. Often the Jews were forced to get up at 2am or 3 am and stand outside for a roll call (Appell) for many hours at a time in the freezing night. If they fell down in roll call, they were beaten up. They were forced to sleep in wooden stable barracks on the floor or hard wooden boards, often with 3 or even 5 people in a bed.
Still others were experimented on by the notoriously brutal Dr. Mengele who used Jews to test out his own particular scientific theories.
Families were split up on arrival and the women with children plus the young and old selected for gassing. Sometimes the guards would pull a child from a mother, and swing it round, smashing the child's head onto a wall, killing it. This was true of people who were about to be gassed. This torture made some Jews go crazy and either attack the guards whereupon they would be shot or the Jews would commit suicide by throwing themselves on the electrified fence.
At the end of the war, the Russians were capturing Poland where most of the camps were, so the Nazis moved the Jews back to Germany in death marches lasting days without food or water. Any person who couldn't keep up was shot. Many of these Jews ended up at Bergen-Belsen which was heavily overcrowded and rife with typhus and had no food or water. A large number of the starving Jews who survived till then, caught typhus and died. Anne Frank was one such Jew who tortured at Auschwitz and died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen.
the Jewish people nor the people of Germany would have known the horror that went on behind the electric fences of the concerntration camps making it more horrifying when they arrived. the people of Germany beleived that the camps were just a way of separating Jewish society from regular society without even knowing about the torture
for film depictions of such torture i suggest the following movies , schindlers list, the diary of anne frank, and the boy in the striped pyjamas
How long did people stay at the Holocaust camps?
People sometimes were in concentration camps for a very short period, but usually because they were killed as soon as they arrived. Others were held in the camps for years, until the Allies rescued them or they eventually died from the horrific conditions they were forced to endure.
What was it like at the consentration camps?
Obviously, it was absolute hell. The process was a prolonged attack on the **whole person** of each victim. Please bear in mind that before being sent to a camp many victims had been forced to live for several months of longer in ghettos where they didn't have enough to eat. Then there was the rail journey in enclosed cattle trucks (rather like box cars) to the camps. In many cases it was a very long journey indeed, without food and often without anything to drink. So it began ... I hope this gives you some idea. Joncey
What type of people were in concentration camps?
Jews
AnswerThere were a vast number of people detained in concentration camps from a variety of backgrounds. In short they became a holding bay for an opponent to Hitler.Mainly Jews, but also Gypsies, homosexuals, vagrants, blacks and communists.
Anybody who didn't go along with the Nazi ideology or anybody who fell into the category of 'untermensch', Jews, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals, resistance fighters, Russians, other Slavs, political opponents of Hitler.
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The population of the camps changed somewhat over the period 1933-1945. In the early years it consisted mainly of opponents of the Nazi regime. Please see the related questions.
What was a typical day like in a concentration camp for prisoners?
The bed is made now, and it is time for washing. You run out of the barrack and try to reach the sanitary facility. There are only a couple of sanitary facilities for hundreds of prisoners, and you are under constant threat of the Nazis suddenly deciding to liquidate you. They would switch signs on the washroom and gas chamber door, or they would turn on poison gas instead of water in the showers. You have just a couple of minutes for washing, and the water arbitrarily switches between boiling hot and freezing cold. It is nearly time for the morning roll call, and you know the kapos will beat the stragglers, sometimes to death.
The "Breakfast":You must have your mess-tin in hand. No mess-tin, no food. A kapo gives you approximately 10 ounces of bread and some "coffee" [see note, end of page]. Sometimes, if you are lucky, you'll receive some margarine or a thin slice of sausage with your bread. The "coffee" is tasteless. No sugar and no milk, of course. The bread you just received will be the only solid food you'll receive until tomorrow. If you have strength of will, you'll try to spare it for the rest of the day. The distribution of food is once again a good opportunity for the kapos to have some "fun". Sometimes they throw the bread in the mud, or they push you while serving the coffee, wasting it on the ground. In any case, you'll receive nothing more, and you are risking punishment for wasting food. If you are very strong, you can save your bread rations for a few days and trade them to the local 'black market' run by inmates with 'ins'.
Morning Roll Call:All the prisoners are lined up in rows of ten on a huge bare space in the center of camp called the Appellplatz. All the prisoners must be at the roll call, including the ones who died during the night. There, poor bodies are aligned in front of you or in front of your barrack. Under control of the SS guards and officers, the kapos led by the Blockalteste (in charge of your barracks) are counting the thousands of prisoners. A mistake during the counting and everything must start again, making the kapos nervous and dangerous. During the roll call, you must stand at attention, even if it is raining or snowing. It is forbidden to move or to talk during the roll call. Your poor striped uniform, made from an incredibly rough cloth, does not protect you against the cold weather. Every day, several prisoners catch cold during the roll call and die in the following days. Some others die during the roll call itself. They were too weak to stand at attention during hours. Their bodies, as well as the deaths of the night, will be sent to the crematories after the roll call.
Move Off of the Appellplatz:You run to join your work team. You'll leave the camp under the heavy guard of SS and kapos, always barking at you. You'll reach the yard by walk of course. Maybe you'll have to march off to the beat of the music played by the camp orchestra. Just at the gate of the camp, there is a row of SS waiting for your work team. Beatings, insults, barking again and again...
The Work:If you are lucky, you have received a good tool, a shovel or a pickax. Otherwise, you'll have to work with your hands... and this may mean death because you'll not be able to work as fast as the guards request. The day will be long: 12-14 hours of work. The work is very hard, and often useless: to move heavy sand bags from one point to another, to extract and carry heavy stones, to dig trenches or to bore a tunnel. When it is obviously pointless and there is also bad weather such as rainstorms or hail, Kapos will be extra angry because they have to stand out there as well. Maybe you are working in a factory but this does not improve your condition of life, unless you are in a labor camp in which case the SS only patrol the factories, they don't stay there. Germans had the prisoners work in factories for the good of the war; creating ammunition (SS stayed here) or clothing for the Nazi soldiers. This is extermination by work. Everything has to be done as fast as possible, and always with insults and beatings from the kapos and the SS. If a guard thinks you are not working fast enough, you'll be beat up, maybe until you die. Don't even think about stopping for a while or even slowing down. It will be considered as sabotage and this means death.
The Afternoon:Slight break at noon, then the work starts again, always at inferno. The afternoon seems harder because you are hungry and you feel you are losing strength. A prisoner faints and the guards beat him up. If this poor wo/man can't rise, s/he'll be killed and you'll have to bring his/her poor body back to the camp, for the evening roll call.
Return to the Camp:A last signaling whistle: your work team walks back to the camp, and the survivors are carrying bodies of the prisoners who died today. Once arrived in the camp, the SS are controlling your team. It's a new opportunity for them to beat, to kill.
Evening Roll Call:All the prisoners are lined up by rows of ten. The kapos are counting the prisoners and the dead. If a prisoner tried to escape, all the prisoners will stand at attention at their roll-call place until he is retrieved. The evening roll call takes hours, sometimes even 10 hours, before it is over. The evening roll call is also the moment chosen by the SS for the punishments and the hangings. Sometimes, after a hanging, all the prisoners have to march in front of the gallows to look at the hanged prisoner, as a warning.
The Dinner:The evening roll call is over. You run in order to receive your "dinner": a kind of "soup" (usually dishwater heated up), just like the one you received at noon. If you spared some bread, you may eat it now, with the soup. Once again, the distribution of food is an opportunity for the kapos to beat the prisoners. Some prisoners will figure out when each barracks eats dinner and get in line for several, obtaining extra rations. The kapos come and interrupt dinner, shouting "Blocksperre!'. Time to go to the barracks.
The Evening:You return to your barrack. In no way you are allowed to leave the barrack during the night. The Blockalteste (head of the barracks) is waiting for you and your comrades. The Blockaltestes are Kapos and sometimes wear green triangles, which means "real criminals", because they got special treatment since they weren't as "bad" as the Jews. They have the right to decide who'll live and who'll die. Maybe he/she will let you rest until tomorrow morning. But, maybe she'll/he'll decide to have some "fun"--to order exercises like crawling, jumping, running until you faint. They check to make sure everyone is in bed and no one has serious diseases like typhus- which will have to be reported. Some Blockaltestes are kind and bond with their barracks, even be sad if their block is liquidated. But they are still hated by the other inmates for their privileges. Eventually, you are allowed to lie down on your straw-mattress or shelving unit. You are ten or fifteen per shelf. The barrack is not heated and there are holes in the wooden sides. If a prisoner wants to turn over in bed, all the others have to follow. You are exhausted. Sometimes, roll call is so long that you will only get two or three hours of sleep before the next day. Today, you managed to survive.
Another answer - very similar
No day was normal in a concentration camp but it would begin with the morning roll call or Appel at 4 am. Every inmate had to be accounted for and even those that died during the night were lined up for the count. No prisoner was allowed to move or speak during roll call. Violators were beaten or killed. When the count was complete, a cup of dark water and a single slice of bread served as breakfast, a trip to the latrine was allowed, and everyone was marched to their workplace. Lunch at noon was a repeat of the breakfast menu and rarely more than minutes were allowed to complete it. Work continued until 6 pm and then it was back to the Appelplatz for evening roll call, dinner and bed on a plank bunk with three or more other prisoners. Your dinner may have been a watery soup or a slice of balonga with your bread. Every day was the same. Seven days a week and 365 days a year, but few actually completed a full year of this routine.
Where was the Jewish ghetto located?
Answer 1
In Medieval Europe and some parts of the Arab World, the Jews were required to live only within certain areas of cities. In Venice, in the district of Canareggio, there was a neighborhood called "Ghetto" which happened to be the one assigned to the Venetian Jews. Eventually, the name of this particular area took on the meaning of any such area in any city. Jews remained in the ghettos well into the modern period and were first released from the ghettos by Napoleon who decreed that Jews were French citizens and need not live in separate areas. However, many Jews remained in the ghettos as they had a certain Jewish character to them by that point.
During the Holocaust, the term ghetto takes on a slightly different meaning. They were basically (to the Nazis) community homes to store as many possible Jews in for each city. Although there were more than just one ghetto in each city, more Jews than the ghettos could hold were always put into these ghettos to await "Relocation." This "Relocation" was actually deportation to a death camp. But, ghettos were just somewhat large Jew and other inferior containment buildings.
Answer 2
A ghetto was an area in a town or city where Jews lived, in most cases because they were not allowed to live elsewhere. As they tended to be overcrowded and, in many areas, the Jewish inhabitants were restricted in the work they were permitted to do (leaving many very poor) ghettos tended to be squalid, disease-ridden places with very poor living conditions. They existed in various European cities between the Middle Ages right up until WW2, which saw the famous uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto - when the Nazis tried to clear the ghetto, the Jews inside put up an armed resistance and were successful in holding off the Nazis for a number of weeks. However, the Nazis finally took the ghetto due to their superior numbers and firepower and set about burning or bombing the buildings, rounding up anyone they could and shooting anyone who tried to flee. Most of those captured were then sent to Treblinka where the majority died.
Comment on Answer 2
The above is confusing and inaccurate because it conflates medieval, early modern and Nazi ghettos. By 1870 ghettos (as places where Jews had to live bylaw) had been abolished in Europe, but were reintroduced by the Nazis in 1939-41, then liquidated.
Could Jews leave Germany during the Holocaust?
The Jews were not "scared" to escape from their situation. They were unable to. In the beginning they (the Jews) didn't believe they were in as much trouble as they were. No one conceived of anyone (Hitler) being as evil and determined to rid the world of the Jewish people as he was, until it was too late for them to do anything about it. Those Jews who recognized the problem early enough to get out, did so, hence the large populations of Jews in some major cities like New York. ___ It was the Great Depression, and immigration controls everywhere were stringent. Most countries were unwilling to admit large numbers of foreigners. After 1934 people were not allowed to take money out of Germany, so unless they had a job waiting at the other end they had to depend on relatives or on charities. No country wanted to admit people likely to be a burden on the public ... Obviously, once war broke out international communications were disrupted. Even if a Jew in Germany got permission to enter, say, Uruguay, getting there was tricky. After August 1941 Jews were forbidden to leave German and German-controlled territory.
How did the Nazis kill people at concentration camps?
The main way to kill people in the concentration camps was to gas them in the gas chambers. They could hold up to 2000 people at a time. However, many of the Nazi soldiers used their own methods of killing people such as shooting them, beating them to death, even performing medical experiments on them; which included injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, the removal of organs. One man in particular had a fascination over twins and performed disgusting operations that were too cruel to mention. One thing's for sure, the Nazis were cruel people. And all this happened because of Adolf Hitler.
In a lot of cases, the Nazis simply pretended that the prisoners were going for showers, told to strip down from their 'Striped Pyjamas' and were forced into the gas chamber. They were gassed. They were also tortured, shot, died of exhaustion, died of starvation. But the main problem in the unhealthy conditions they slept in was Typhus.
At concentration camps some inmates were:
- Worked to death on grossly inadequate food.
- Used for medical experiments, which were often fatal.
- Hanged for minor breaches of camp rules.
At extermination camps - Auschwitz II, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek (part of the camp), Sobibor and Treblinka II the majority of new arrivals were gassed as soon as practical after arrival. Firstly, the genocide that happened to Jews was the first known one in the world's history and it was covered up for a few years before other countries could believe that such a thing could happen.
Comments:
Yes, homosexuals have received rough times and also 'gay bashing' has occurred, but, not over six million of them went to gas chambers or were killed in a short period of time. No race or sexual orientation should EVER be treated any different than anyone else and genocide is something sick that is happening all over the world. One of the worst genocides going on today is taking place in the war we are in now and also the Congo (Africa ... the forgotten continent!) If you want to know that the information we have received in the past regarding the extermination of over 6 million Jews is true, just ask a WWII War Vet! These photos were smuggled out of Germany and one of my best friend's father was killed for doing so. They never recovered his body. Even today reporters are risking their lives in this war to bring home the news of what is actually happening. Of course there is propaganda to a degree, but pictures speak a thousand words and all we have to care about is, why is it the citizens of the villages or towns that have the highest mortality (women, children, the elderly) that didn't ask for a war and have the highest casualty rate!
There were some cases of genocide before the Nazi Holocaust, for example, the slaughter of the Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915-17, and the genocide of the Hereros in German South-West Africa. One can also make out a case for regarding the treatment of the Native Americans by the British, the Americans and the Spaniards as genocide.
It's also worth mentioning that it's so offensive that people don't believe that the holocaust really happened when it did. Such beliefs can lead to another one. If you need any more proof that this happened, ask the survivors. My grandfather, for example. He has a truly unique story and still has a map that he drew from memory to help him escape, at his house. The Holocaust did happen, 6 million Jews and countless other people were murdered.
What was the Nazi plan known as The Final Solution and how was it implemented?
At first Hitler's plan for the Final Solution involved deporting the Jews of Europe to a place like Madagascar. However, this was discarded and later achieving the Final Solution involved mass killings of Jews through shooting and gassing of Jews.
Facts about the concentration camps of world war 2?
- The first Nazi concentration camp was Dachau, set up in 1933.
- There were six extermination camps: Majdanek, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, and Belzec.
- Uprisings were in Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Sobibor. Sobibor was the most successful with 300 out of the 600 prisoners escaping.
- Auschwitz was liberated January 27, 1945; which is now Holocaust Memorial Day.
- There are two known survivors of Belzec.
- At Auschwitz, Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor obsessed with twins, conducted bizarre experiments on twins, giants, dwarfs, pregnant woman, and anything out of the ordinary.
- Heinrich Himmler was responsible for the concentration camps. He committed suicide on May 23, 1945.
- Band of Brothers (2001) episode 9 depicts the liberation of Kaufering IV, a Dachau sub-camp.
What did concentration camp survivors do after the Holocaust?
Generally, I believe they began to either return to their homes, moving as they could, searching for their family; or they immigrated to other countries to begin again. Try searching at the National Holocaust Museam's webpage http://www.ushmm.org
Why were Jews sent to the gas chambers?
by a metal pellet that was released from the ceiling causing the little door at the top to open the room was so air tight that the metal pellets would bust and form a puff of smoke that let out carbon monoxide
a gas that killed kill a human
How many Jews died in concentration camps during the holocaust?
The total number of Jews killed by the Nazis was about 6 million. Just over half of these died in extermination and concetration camps. The others were killed in mass open air shootings or perished from starvation and disease in ghettos.
Why did they choose the yellow star for the jews to use?
Some Nazis did a little homework ... In the Middle Ages the Catholic Church had ordered the civil authorities to make Jews to wear a clear, identifying badge on their outermost clothing. The most commonly used badge for this purpose was the Star of David in red or yellow, probably because it was easy to understand, but in some places other badges were used.
The use of this badge to mark out Jews has a long and shameful history. When Napoleon and the French Revolutionary Armies entered the city of Ancona in the Papal States in 1797, he noticed small groups of people huddled together, wearing the red badge. Napoleon was unfamiliar with this practice but immediately worked out that it was a discriminatory badge. He asked some of his officers to explain what was going on. Napoleon commented that the badge and enforced ghettoziation were contrary to the ideals of the French Revolution - liberty, equality, fraternity, and he banned the badge at once, and also the requirement that Jews live in a designated area (ghetto). He did the same in Rome and elsewhere, including Frankfurt. The ghettos in Rome and (with some modifications, also in Frankfurt) were reimposed in 1815, following the final defeat of Napoleon.
Why did more Jews not escape Germany?
Many Jews did try to escape death from the Holocaust. Some were caught and some succeeded. It is because of the survivors that we have an even better idea of the true events that occured during the Holocaust.
When did the prisoners sleep in the concentration camps during the Holocaust?
They slept on wooden beds but then if you were sick you were sent to another half that slept in tents only,and in the wooden beds there was nothing just the bed itself no matress, comforter, etc.
How many deaths accorded in dachau?
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/6/68/250px-KZDachau1945.jpg Dachau housed over 200,000 prisoners in which 25,613 prisoners were estimated to have been killed at the camp with another 10,000 deaths at the surrounding sub-camps.
