Nazi Concentration Camps

They got a thin soup made from the scraps of the German soilders soup. The soup was usually just watery. Rotton spots would not be peeled off and the cabbage would be sandy. They would take the peilings from the potatoes and put carrots in as well. If they were lucky; meat would find its way into their bowl. They also got a thin serving of bread, they put saw dust on it to make it look more than it really was. Most of the times people would steal others soup and bread and leave them to starve.

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Because america was in war with japenese and once the americans captured the japenese,they putted them into concentration camps

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Japanese Americans were easier to identify than German Americans, so they could be interned easier. The US had a history of racism, especialli against Orientals, 1882 the Asian Exculsion act took away citizenship and all right of ownership from all Oriental Americans, the internent was just another part of the process.

If you were Jewish, gypsy or considered a traitor to Hitler it didn't matter if you were a baby or a teenager. They were treated cruelly and it was a mass genocide (over 6 million Jews and one can only guess how many others that were considered traitors). The Germans put these poor Jews on trains (they thought they were just going to a concentration camp) but, they actually were going to gas chambers. The Germans would have the Jews believe they were going in for a shower to be "deloused" and that's when they'd let them have the cyanide pellets and the poor people did not die easily. Anne Frank was a teenager and her sister was killed (Anne actually saw her sister in one of the mass trenches used as mass graves) and later Anne died, turned in by one of her own kind.

The groups that were sent to the concentration camps during the holocaust were Jews, Roma (gypsies), homosexuals, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses and many others.

cyanide tablets turned into gas

Auschwitz (or to be more precise, the Auschwitz complex of camps) lasted from May 1940 till January 1945. However, its function changed during that time. Initially, it was a very harsh concentration camp, but in 1942 it became an extermination camp, too. In addition there were about 45 further sub-camps.

* The first concentration camps were set up in 1933, mainly for political opponents of the Nazi regime. These early inmates included some Jews, sent there as opponents, not as Jews. * 11 November 1938 onwards - in the aftermath of the 'Night of the Broken Glass' about 30,000 German and Austrian Jews were sent to concentration camps, and about 2,000 died by Chritmas 1938. The main idea was to make life hell for them and bully them in leaving Germany. * November 1939 onwards - Jews in Nazi occupied Poland were forced into ghettos. * 7 December 1941 the first extermination camp - Chelmno - becomes operational. Mass gassings of Jews from western Poland. The roundups and transports began a few days earlier. Deportations from Germany to the killing fields of Latvia and Belarus and to the Warsaw Ghetto started on 15 October 1941. At that stage there were no extermination camps.

the facilities are not as clean, and a lot of the camps are enclosed and are very harsh in condition. as prisoners come from all over, they bring exotic illnesses that others are more prone to.

They got sick by people like Hitler not feeding them and then he put them in little ovens then they were heated alive! I'm glad I wasn't an alive Jewish person! No ofence to Jews.

sometimes they intentionally poisoned them!

I.G.FARBEN WAS THE PRIMARY MANUFACTURER BUT THERE WERE OTHERS LIKE THYSSIEN WHICH IS STILL IN BUSSINESS HERE AND IN GERMANY. The Nevada prison system invented the gas chamber in 1924. A man named Gee Jon, who was a member of a Chinese-American crime syndicate, was to be executed for murder at the Nevada State Prison. At the time, they were attempting to find a more humane way to execute criminals in Nevada, and someone came up with the idea of using cyanide gas. They first tried putting a hose in his cell at night and piping in the gas. Gee survived this because the gas escaped through the bars of his cell. (History does not state what happened to the other inmates.) Their next attempt was to put Gee in a closet and pipe the gas into it. This worked fine.

The name in German is (Konzentrationslager) that means concentration camp, at first were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the Nazi empire but after the WW2 began Hitler use the first six concentration camps to hold and exterminate jews, homosexuals, gypsies but later he find out he could use those people for work so he created various types of concentration camps: Labour camps: concentration camps where interned inmates had to do hard physical labour under inhuman conditions and cruel treatment. Some of these camps were sub-camps of bigger camps, or "operational camps", established for a temporary need. Transit and collection camps: camps where inmates were collected and routed to main camps, or temporarily held. POW camps: concentration camps where prisoners of war were held after capture. These POW's endured torture and liquidation in a big scale. Hostage camps: camps where hostages were held and killed as reprisals. Extermination camps: These camps differed from the rest, since not all of them were also concentration-camps. Although none of the categories is independent, and each camp could be classified as a mixture of several of the above, and all camps had some of the elements of an extermination camp, still systematic extermination of new-arrivals occured in very specific camps. Of these, three were extermination camps, where all new-arrivals were simply killed -- The "Reinhardt Aktion" camps. Three others were concentration and extermination camps altogether. Others were at times classified as "minor extermination camps."

No, Nazi's also send to concentration camps: communists, homosexuals, disabled, Russian prisoner's of war, gypsies, partisans. From 12 millions victims of Holocaust, 6 millions were Jews, 3 millions Russian prisoners of war, 3 million others.

They were incinerated in nearby ovens after being inspected in the most intimate of places for valuables, having any gold teeth removed, and cutting off the women's hair.

From early 1942 Auschwitz operated as both. The only other camp that served as both a concentration camp and extermination camp was Majdanek.

They went to Buchenwald.

The Soviets liberated Auschwitz in January 1945. Soviet forces also liberated the Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrueck concentration camps (after Germany surrendered).

U.S. forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. They also liberated Dora-Mittelbau, Flossenbürg, Dachau, and Mauthausen.

British forces liberated concentration camps in northern Germany, including Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen.

Concentration camps were torturous and painful.

Inmates had to work and do hard labour, men arguably had to do more physically demanding jobs. People had to wear clothes resembling a pair of pajamas that had been worn before. People were beaten by guards and made to do seemingly illogical tasks. The camps were cold, wet, damp, and muddy. Jews were starved to death. There were outbreaks of harmful diseases such as Typhus. In the ghettos people often died at such a rate that the disposal of the corpses could not keep up, so; bodies were often piled up in streets.

Also they were put in gas chambers. they would be forced to take all their clothes off and go in to a big room this room was filled with up to two thousand Jews and a doctor would pour gas pellets into the room. Dead bodies would then be processed, gold teeth and hair would be harvested and the corpses searched. The corpses would then be burned in a special oven called a crematorium.

Westerbork (Transit Camp).Then on to Auschwitz II (Women's Camp)On 30 October 1944, she and Margot were moved to Bergen-Belsen, where they died of typhus in March 1945 (exact dates unknown).

Anne Frank (and the others from the Secret Annex) spent a short time at Westerbork, a transit camp. She and her family were then sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. This is where they were separated. After being used for a time for physical labor and starved in filthy conditions, she and Margot were moved to Bergen-Belsen on 30 October 1944. She and Margot died of typhus there only weeks before the camp was liberated on April 15th, 1945.

Anne Frank was first sent to Westerbork Transit Camp in the Netherlands (Holland). Then she and the rest of her family was sent to Auschwitz. On 30 October 1944 she and Margot (were put on the last transport from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen (near Hanover), where they died of typhus. (Her parents were left at Auschwitz, where her mother died on 6 Janaury 1945, and her father was liberated).

Joseph Stalin was the leader of Russia during World War II. He was a brutal dictator who was known for his heavy fist. He did not directly commit the torture, however, his secret police were known for carrying out his work.

None. Before and during World War Two, Germany operated what is called 'Concentration Camps'. During the war these German concentration camps became mostly extermination or death campsdesigned 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. Japan was an enemy of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth countries, China and several other countries. Japan was an ally of Germany during the war. The Germans did not put the Japanese in these concentration camps. In the United States, many Japanese were placed in either 'Internment Camps' or 'Relocation Centers', depending on their legal status. Both types of camps or centers were operated in accordance with international law. Those foreign nationals from enemy countries (in the US when the war started) were interned in the Internment Camps only as long as the war lasted, and were freed at the end of the war. In some instances internees were repatriated (returned) back to their home country during the war, in exchange for US citizens being held in enemy countries. No internees were killed by the US.Japanese-Americans, either US citizens or Resident Aliens, were sent to US Relocation Centers, only if they lived on the west coast of the continental United States. After arriving at the camp they were free to leave to any part of the United States, except the "west coast exclusion zone". No Japanese-Americans were killed at relocation centers. 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. This government action was upheld by the US Supreme Court upon a legal challenge. There was a great deal of mistrust of the Japanese & Japanese-Americans. Many Japanese-Americans openly voiced support for Japan against the US. Secret 'MAGIC' intercepts of Japanese diplomatic coded traffic by the United States government revealed that many Japanese-Americans were assisting the enemies of the United States. The US government was not able to determine all the details of which persons were traitors, so many remained under suspicion. Japanese-Americans were released from these centers based on various criteria, some well before the end of the war, others later near the end. Most of the Japanese-Americans that were in these centers the longest were from families that were unwilling to swear allegiance to the United States. They were allowed to leave if the joined the US military, or to go to college, or to temporarily move to the areas outside the 'exclusion zone'. The exclusion zone was removed shortly before the end of the war. Any people still in the relocation centers was free to return to their west coast homes.

The prisoners were housed in wooden or brick built barracks. It was very over crowded, and it was a dreadful living situation. The people lived so close together that diseases were constantly being transferred.

Chelmno is in a part of Poland that had been annexed by Germany in 1939. It is to the north of Lodz.

Chelmno was an extermination camp, and the prisoners were gassed as soon as practical - ususally within 24 hours of arrival. They were not of course given a 'last meal'; they were not fed. (It was a 'killing facility' and served no other purpose). As at all extermination camps, a very small number of healthy-looking new arrivals were selected to help with aspects of the killing process itself - in particular, digging mass graves. There are only two known survivors.

The majority of Jews who were taken to Sobibor were Polish. There were a decent number of Ukrainian gaurds. Later in the camps history a group of Jewish Soviet POW's were sent to Sobibor (one of which was Sasha Pechersky who led the escape from Sobibor in 1943). The remaining small percent were German and Dutch.

He didnt do anyhin bd it was just he had to be taken away is all. ___ He was taken from his home town, Sighet, on 16 May 1944 and transported to Auschwitz.