Nazi Concentration Camps

no, even if one never went out or talked to other people, there was still the smell, the clouds and the ash.

ordered by Hitler to concentrate enemies of Hitlers Reich into prison camps....

but concentation camps originated in America. The United States used concentation camps before Hitler. They used the concentation camps on the Native Americans. look up fort sumner in New Mexico. The navajo people were forced to be in these camps way before the jews.

to keep people in one place, for easy access to the people.

i think so all Jewish people homosexuals gypsies and i think colored people were all put in concentration camps

Hell Yes,

Hitler killed anyone who wasn't a pure German. aka Aryan. Hitler wouldn't kill them himself, He would send them to the Concentration Camps.

The Soviet Union was the first country to liberate the Jews. The United States reached the camps in April and May, 1945.

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Liberation took place camp by camp as the Allies advanced. Most Jews were dead by the time the Allies reached the camps.

Once Bergen Belson was liberated and all records was collected the total of deaths were 50,000. Once the camp was liberated out of the all who were liberated, 13,000 of them died withing a week after being liberated disbite been giving medical care

The Sobibor uprising was October 17, 1943. Within days, the camp was closed on orders by Heinrich Himmler.

The earliest ones was minor ones which was in 1938. They were used until the end of the war in 1945. The exact number is disputed from 1,200 to over 15,000.

well an extermination camp is a camp where the Jews are sent so that the Nazi's can exterminate them or in other words where they can kill them.. try and kill off the race.

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No, but part of the site is open to the public. There are two monuments, there is a documentation centre and a "House of Silence".

Just before the Allies arrived to liberate the camps, the Nazis would force prisoners on a so-called "Death March". During these marches, prisoners would be forced to walk until they succumbed to the elements, starved to death, or were randomly shot by a guard.

Some of the camps ran right up until the day they were liberated by the Allies.

There were Klooga,Vaivara,Treblinka,Sobibor,Chelmno,Belzec,Majdanek,Auschwitz,Plaszow,Neuengamme,Stutthof,Bergen-Belsen,Ravensbruck,Gross Rosen, Sachsenhausen,Mittelbau Dora,Flossenberg,Dachau,Buchenwald,Natzweiler,Mauthausen,Gospic,Jasenovac,and Sajmiste. I'm sure there are probably more but these were the known camps and were the worst there probably could be.

Mainly bread and water, and if they were lucky, some men managed to acquire small amounts of butter or margarine to spread on their bread.

Not many. Millions of people died in German concentration camps. Only about a hundred died in concentration camps in America.

The Holocaust is still going on so the people of today didn't change much about the Holocaust it is still happening all around us, but it still changed some things. The fact that it mostly have stopped it still is going on in Iraq.

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Most of them were members of the SS, either from the 'Death's Head' Battalion or from one of the foreign battalions.

There was no special name, they would be called by 'rank, surname'.

Up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Basically three times a day, but what they were fed depended on what type of prisoner they were. For example Jews would only get anything close to food once a day and flavoured water on the other occasions.

Everything. They were stripped naked and then given clothes to wear. The Nazis even shaved their heads and pulled the gold from their teeth to save the hair and gold for sale. When the concentration camps were liberated, whole box cars were found filled with eyeglasses, boxes full of dentures and dental gold, suitcases, purses, and clothing. Everything that came to the camp with the prisoners was confiscated by the Nazi's.

The answer posted previously was wrong; there were concentration camps during WWI. The Turks had the Armenians in concentration camps such as Deir ez-Zor during WWI. Around 1.5 million Armenians were killed in that genocide total.

The cattle trucks (boxcars) were moved around by freights trains. The Jews were not let out till they reached their destination. There were no stops for food, water or sanitation. The trains were very slow - possibly deliberately slow, with an average speed over the whole journey of about 15 mph (or less).

Moreover, the trains sometimes called at other camps before reaching Auschwitz (or some other final destination). For example, some trains first went to Majdanek, which is well to the east of Auschwitz. There, at Majdanek, perhaps two trucks were 'emptied' and the train continued its journey.

For Jews from Western Europe a typical journey time was three days and for those transported from Greece to Auschwitz it was five days. Many of the elderly Jews were dead on arrival at Auschwitz.

Sobibor (near Lublin, Poland) was established in early 1942 as an extermination camp, that is, a camp intended almost solely for the purpose of gassing victims. It became operational in May 1942, and between then and October 1943 about 250,000 people were gassed there, most of them Jews.

On 14 October 1943 there was a successful revolt at the camp. It was led by Leon Feldhendler and Alexander Pechersky (a Soviet POW). Eleven SS guards were killed and about 300 prisoners managed to break out. Fifty or so of these survived the war. Leon Feldhendler was murdered in 1945 by Polish antisemites.

Sobibor was an extermination camp, not a labour camp, so there was no "daily life" there. New arrivals were gassed within hours of reaching the camp. It was a death factory ... Like all the Nazi death factories it was quite small. A trainload of victims would arrive, be stripped, gassed, and the bodies were cremated. Then the next trainload arrived, and so on.

A very small number of men were chosen to help with burning the corpses. On 14 October 1943, led by Alexander Pechersky and Leon Feldhendler, they rebelled and about three hundred managed a mass break out. About half of these were recaptured soon afterwards, but about 70 or so were still alive at the end of the war. (Leon Feldhendler was murdered in April 1945 by Polish antisemites, but Alexander Pechersky lived till 1990).