Nazi Concentration Camps

So the Germans could work the Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, etc. until they were sick/dead.

Most of the concentration camps were converted to death camps near the end of the war to increase the amount of Jews they could kill per day (which was up to 3,000 at some camps).

There were around 20,000 concentration camps and subcamps established by the Nazis throughout Eastern Europe during World War II. These camps were used for various purposes, including forced labor, mass executions, and extermination. Auschwitz-Birkenau, located in Poland, is one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.

Auschwitz was a real-life concentration and extermination camp from the Second World War. John Boyce had Bruno refer it it phonetically as 'Out-With' to showcase his innocence and naivety.

It was horrible beacause they were separated from there family's. They had to listen to the nazis or else they could end up died. most of them died beacause of the condintions they were living in.

The Allies found scenes of almost indescribable horror. The ground was covered with corpses and dying prisoners. Other inmates looked like skeletons covered with skin ... An immediate appeal was issued for Allied soldiers and doctors with first hand experience of famine relief.

At some specific camps, commonly called death camps, or extermination camps, yes. There were two sets of camps, one used carbon monoxide in gas vans, and the other used hydrogen cyanide (Zyclon-B) in gas chambers.

German concentration camps were mostly extermination or death camps designed to murder the inmates, primarily Jews. Some camps also sent out inmates to be used as slave labor. All the German camps were operated in total violation of international law and well outside all standard norms of behavior. The American camps were not "concentration" camps, but internment camps for Japanese, German & Italian nationals, as well as several thousand Japanese-Americans citizens and Japanese legal aliens from the west coast of the US. In accordance with international law, those foreign nationals from enemy countries (in the US when the war started) were interned in the camps only as long as the war lasted, and were freed at the end of the war. Unfortunately there are many myths and misconceptions about the relocation and internment of Japanese in the US. Japanese-American citizens and legal aliens were not relocated from Hawaii, the mid-west or the east coast of the United States. Only those living in the west coast areas were subject to this government action. Japanese-Americans were released from these camps based on various criteria, some well before the end of the war, others later near the end. Most of the Japanese-Americans that were interned the longest were from families that were unwilling to swear allegiance to the United States. Internment was based on the US government suspicion that many of the Japanese in America as legal aliens were loyal to Japan not the United States. In fact, a minority of those interned were vocally pro-Japanese and anti-American. Many Japanese-Americans volunteered to serve in the US military during the war. If they were currently interned, then they were permanently released to serve. The volunteer rates of those inside the camps was actually lower than from those Japanese-Americans outside the camps. In any event, it was not the policy of the US government to mistreat the internees. In fact the internees were generally well treated and cared for in almost all cases. The US court system had ruled in WW2 that it was legal for the government to take this action. Regardless, the Japanese-American citizens believed that the idea was wrong for them to have been sent to the camps in the first place. They petitioned the US government for compensation after the war. Eventually the US government apologized and paid some compensation to former internees, but the bitterness would remain for many.

Natzweiler in Alsace, France. It is in a remote, densely forested area. Most concentration camps were in the middle of nowhere, to prevent other countries finding out what was going on.

what was Hitler's purpose for sending Jews to concentration camps and what is a concentration camp.

Auschwitz I, II and III were liberated by the Soviet Army on 27 January 1945. The remaining prisoners (about 7,500) were nursed back to health, but some were extremely ill and died after being liberated. (The survivors included a baby girl who had been born about 36 hours before the Soviet Army arrived: mother and daughter both lived).

In 1947 the Polish government decided to turn parts of Auschwitz into a museum. The museum is standing and is open to the public.

Changing eye color resisted hypothermia and injecting animal sperm into women or cutting of male genetalia and lots of sexual related and cruel experiments on Jews especially in the nazi camp Auschwitz

Most of the people sent to the concentration camps and death camps during the Holocaust were Jews. But other groups of individuals sent to the camps included homosexuals, gypsies, political opponents, those who hid and helped Jews, blacks, and resistance workers.

The first commandant was Adolf Haas.

The last commandant was Josef Kramer, who was trnasferred from Auschwitz. He, toegether with 44 guards, was tried by the British in September-Novermber 1945. (It was the first major trial of its kind in Western Europe and the first time that the media heard about the internal working of the camps). Kramer, along with 11 others, was hanged at Hameln in December 1945.

General Eisenhower understood that many people would be unable to comprehend the full scope of this horror. He also understood that any human deeds that were so utterly evil might eventually be challenged or even denied as being literally unbelievable. For these reasons he ordered that all the civilian news media and military combat camera units be required to visit the camps and record their observations in print, pictures and film. As he explained to General Marshall, "I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda.'"

Several hundred thousand German soldiers didn't want them to.

Auschwitz.Belzec,Bergin,chelmeno,and mauthausen

As many as 1.5 million children could have been killed at Auschwitz.

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No. The total number of people killed at Auschwitz was just over 1.1 million. An estimated 25% of the victims were under the age of 15.

The map shows that extermination camps were located away from major cities.

These are the major concentration camps. There were hundreds but these were the largest and some were extermination camps. See attached links below too.Arbeitsdorf, Germany

Auschwitz/Birkenau, Poland

Belzec, Poland

Bergen-Belsen, Germany

Buchenwald, German

Chelmno, Poland

Dachau, Germany

Dora-Mittelbau, Germany

Flossenbürg, Germany

Gross-Rosen, Poland

Kaiserwald (Riga), Latvia

Klooga, Estonia

Majdanek, Poland

Mauthausen, Austria

Natzweiler-Struthof, France

Neuengamme, Germany

Plaszow, Poland

Ravensbrück, Germany

Sachsenhausen, Germany

Sobibor, Poland

Stutthof, Poland

Theresienstadt, Czech Republic

Treblinka, Poland

Vaivara, Latvia

Vught, The Netherlands

Westerbork, The Netherlands

Jews, and many non-Jews were tattooed during the Holocaust in order to identify each individual. It was Hitler's way of keeping tabs on it's population through the selection process, (ridding Germany of undesirables like Jews, Gays, etc.). Each number had it's significant meaning, for example: 01234567. The "0" was possibly the persons RACE. Number "1" meant the person was good for LABOR. Number 2 meant the person's religion, and 3 possibly meant the person is headed for the GAS chambers. It was a simple system but needed a state-of-the-art managing mechanism. That mechanism was developed by IBM, (Industrial Business Machines). The only way to identify an individual was to check the Tattoo, on the persons arm, and compare it to the "Punch Cards", developed by the Nazis and with help from the U.S. Today, our Government is using more advanced identification for it's population. You can learn more by researching the following sites. ChoicePoint.com and RFID.com.yorgie

Some Jews were sent to concentration camps in 1933, and a further batch was sent to camps from 1938 onwards. The wholesale transportation of Jews to death camps started in 1941. However, many had been forced to lead a wretched existence in ghettoes since 1939/40.

Death Camps: Hitler created the camps so he could quietly and efficiently kill the Jewish population.

Concentration Camps: Used as a sort of prison by the Nazis for the duration of the war. They imprisoned people who committed "crimes" against the Nazi regime.

Anne was separated from her dad when she got to her second concentration camp. she thought she saw him go to the gas chambers so she assumed he was already dead. after she was separated from her mother too, she assumed her mother died too (which actually did happen from starvation). she was left with only her sister, Margot, until Margot died. a few days later Anne died, at age 15, of Typhus five days before the war was over. What could have saved her was the knowledge that her father was in fact alive. she left her father alone.

Dachau, the first concentration camp, opened on 22 March 1933 - less than two months after Hitler came to power.

In April 1933 small concentration camps sprang up in all kinds of places, but most these were later closed by mid 1934.

From 1937 additional camps were built, starting with Buchenwald.