Nazi Concentration Camps

The main site at Auschwitz was over 40 square kilometres in total.

Auschwitz comprised of 3 main camps and 45 sub-camps.

Numbers of people sent to the camps are estimated to be, at least, well over a million Jews from all the countries of occupied Europe, over 140,000 Poles (mostly political prisoners), approximately 20,000 Gypsies, over 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and thousands of prisoners of other nationalities. The majority of the Jewish deportees died in the gas chambers immediately after arrival. The estimated total number of victims killed is 1.1 million.

The overall size including the Sub Camps is over 60 square miles, this also Include the factories near Auschwitz.

Auschwitz I Stammlager, Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz III Monowitz

The only survivor in Anne Frank's immediate family was her father, Otto.

There were no bedrooms for the prisoners in the concentration camps. There were long row buildings or block buildings they were called. They held close to a hundred people in some of them. All they had were wooden shelving stacked and built big enough for people to lie on them. They crammed them full and many had to sleep on the floors or outside. Some concentration camps didn't even have it that good.

The largest group was gassed in extermination camps.

Many Jews were killed in mass open-air shootings. Other Jews were sent to extermination camps (death camps). Many were gassed on arrival and other were worked to death. And the Jews would be starved, frozen, or shot on the spot.

Many died of starvation and/or disease in ghettos and camps.

In 1932, Otto Frank heard the storm troopers singing 'When Jewish blood splatter from the knife, hang the Jews, put them up against the wall, heads are rolling, Jews are hollering.' There is no actual song title found for this antisemitic song.

Many kind of questions you could ask but my 3 are

1. How was it like being in a concentration camp

2. What was you force to do whiles you was in the concentration camp

3. Did you witness 1st hand of seeing someone being killed

they were only given a small ration of bread, potato soup, and coffee(breakfast) twice a day. sometimes no food at all.

The original building has long gone, andall that is left are the foundations and layout of the building, as a memorial to those who died there. There are a few photographs of the former building.

One of the identifications was tattooed identifications.

Well they would for starters instead of shaving their heads for their hair they ripped it from their scalps in clumps for things like dolls ect. They also took dead bodies skins and used them as book covers and such. They also took the ashes of the dead and put them into soaps and made the people use them. For some they would make people hold children in their arms while they shot the children. They would also spread typhoid fever in contaminated water or food and let them die or send them back to their ghettos so they could spread the disease(s).

All in all it was a very terrible time in history, and they probably did many more things than just this that could be 10x worse. Hope this helped you.

6 million Jews and 5 million others to make an approximated 11 million.

Majdanek (in Lublin, Poland) was the first major camp to be liberated. On 22 July 1944, after a sudden advance, Soviet forces reached the camp. They found the gas chambers more or less intact. Some camps in Poland were dissolved by the Nazis as the Soviets approached. The liberation of most camps took place in the first few months of 1945.

The camp at Breendonk, near Antwerp in Belgium was liberated by the Allies early in September 1944. they weren't all liberated at once they all had different dates, but Auschwitz got liberated on January 27, 1945 by the Soviet Army.

People in Germany and abroad knew about the ordinary concentration camps. The first extermination camp liberated was Majdanek (in a suburb of Lublin, Poland), which was liberated by the Soviet Army in July, 1944. They invited journalists from Allied countries to visit it and report on what they found. Auschwitz was liberated on 27 January 1945.

The SS Death Squads killed groups of Inmates because, they were ordered to and they was getting high pay checks, more than a average high pay worker. This wasn't the only reason, Most SS Death Squad believed in the aryan race and the nazi ideology, so the killed everyone who was sub-German and Jewish.

Once Jews were in ghettos, labour camps or extermination camps escape was extremely difficult. A few people managed to escape from the Warsaw Ghetto through a tunnel that they dug. However, getting out was only half the battle: they had to avoid capture once out of the ghetto. An estimated 300 prisoners, not all of them Jews, succeeded in escaping from the Auschwitz group of camps, out of at least 1.3 million who were sent there ... However, only two (!) survived Belzec, where 434,508 Jews were slaughtered. (These two managed to escape). The most successful mass break out, at Sobibor in 1943, enabled about 250 prisoners to escape, and of these only about 50 were still alive at the end of the war ... If by escape you mean avoid the Holocaust by reaching a safe country, such as the US or Britain before the Holocaust began and if you include those who hid successfully the figure is of couse much higher - probably about 400,000.

Nobody was killed by the Nazis for simply being a Catholic. There were, however, many killed who happened to be Catholic. The contrast with the Jews and gypsies, who were killed for what they were as opposed to what they did, is striking.

Some were put on trial, a few fled to various countries in South America, but most 'lived happily ever after'.

Japanese Internment Camps were in the United States. They housed the Japanese Americans in these camps to search for spies and keep them from turning into spies. These camps were deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court. So they were held illegally. The camp conditions were miserable. They had inadequate housing, bathrooms, food, and many did get sick from the camps. There were not killed or beaten or shot as the people were in the German Concentration camps. Some of the Japanese sons joined the war to prove their allegiance to the United States. The Japanese lost their homes, businesses and possessions. Some Japanese farmers had nice neighbors who kept their farms grow and producing and kept their houses safe but this was the exception not the rule. Many Americans back then were prejudiced against the Japanese, Chinese and other Asians. Truly sad.

The German Concentration camps were filled with Jewish people slated to be killed or used for free hard labor. They were also filled with the "undesirables" the Nazis wanted out of the population. They were communists, political prisoners, religious people, dwarfs, Downs Syndrome people, feeble minded, people with congenital defects, the mentally ill and anyone else they felt like putting into the camps. There were POW camps too. In the camps the conditions were not merely miserable they were deplorable. They were filthy, disease ridden, and the buildings had no heat or beds. The prisoners were put into pajamas. They did not all have coats or shoes. The camps were designed to kill and cremate the people. Some camps had gas chambers to kill thousands of Jews daily. The people died from disease, exposure, dehydration, starvation, dysentery and murder by the Nazis. One of the most horrible things that happened to the prisoners was the medical experiments conducted on them. I couldn't write what happened to them. This entire project of eliminating people Hitler did not approve of was called The Final Solution. His goal was to have the population be only of pure Aryan descent. Incidentally, there is no medical word/fact or sociological human grouping of "Aryans". It was a word Hilter borrowed from some books he read.

She died in March 1945 (exact date unknown) in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

There were six extermination (or 'death') camps in the Holocaust which were located at: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka.

That is the 'accepted list', but the role of Majdanek is not clear and there was also an extermination camp at Maly Trostinets near Minsk.

Most Jews from Western Europe, Poland and Hungary were sent to extermination camps and gassed as soon as practical after arrival. Most Jews in the Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia were shot in mass open-air shootings ...

The proportion of Jews 'selected' for work was much smaller, and this happened mainly at Auschwitz. (From late 1944 on, many inmates at Auschwitz were moved to Buchenwald and Belsen).

Some Jews had been sent to camps early as political subversives, rather than as Jews, and these tended to be at Dachau and Buchenwald.

For the names of the extermination camps, please see the related question.

Figuratively speaking, the liberators discovered the walking dead. Jews, foreign nationals & political prisoners were discovered unattended after the SS abandoned the camp. Across a road from the Buchenwald camp was discovered a Panzer (Armor) training school. Although Buchenwald was not designated as a "Death Camp", an area for executions was discovered. There were crematoriums established to handle the numerous corpses.

The name "Buchenwald" translates, I believe, into "Beech Grove".

Just before the end of the second world war the Nazis tried to burn down the concentration camps so that there would be no evidence of what they did. This was not done very successfully as you can still go and visit some of the concentration camps such as Auschwitz.