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Nazi Concentration Camps
Nazi concentration camps were prevalent during WW2 from 1933 to 1945. The last camp was disbanded in 1945. Questions and answers about Nazi Concentration Camps can be found here.
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Facts about dachau concentration camp?
1) it was a concentration camp, not death camp.
2) of appx 144,000 prisoners, 33,000 died of starvation or disease there and 88,000 were shipped to death camps, primarily Auschwitz.
3) there were only 19,000 prisoners alive when the camp was liberated.
4) it was liberated may 8, 1945 by Soviet troops.
5) In February 1945, Heinrich Himmler (SS chief) allowed a transport of 1,210 mostly Dutch Jews to Switzerland. For this, 1.25million was put into Swiss banks by Jewish organizations.
What Types of Labor in the Concentration Camps of the Holocaust?
It wan't only back breaking physical labor. Prisoners not only crushed rocks, they worken in munitions production, construction, mining, and were even involved in the production of the V-2 Rockets.
When did the US help liberate concentration camps?
Five concentration camps were liberated by US troops, on 11 April 1945 Dora Mittlebau and Buchenwald were reached. On 23 April Flossenburg was liberated, Dachau on the 29th and finally Mauthausen on 4 May.
Slaughtered SS members
Fierce resistance
Why are hitlers camps called concentration camps?
There where multiple concentrstion camps during the holocaust. The fisrt concentration camp was called Dachau Concentration camp. It is the only camp which operated from March 1933- May 1945 Just over 12 Years.
How many people went through camp sobibor?
Sobibor was an extermination camp. Its sole purpose was to to kill. However, a small number of new arrivals were selected to help with the extermination process, for example, by sorting valuables and by getting rid of the corpses. In October 1943 there was a revolt by these men and a mass breakout. This was led by Alexander Perchersky and Leon Feldhendler. About 300 prisoners managed to get out. Many were recaptured but about 100 were still alive at the end of World War 2. Compare this figure with a death toll of about 250,000.
So, only 300 'passed through' Sobibor ...
Why were concentration camps formed?
Concentration camps were created to exterminate all "non normal" people.(not germans.) they had this ides that all blonde hair blue eyed people were superior over all the races. If u werent like this, you were killed. Concentration camps were created to exterminate all "non normal" people.(not germans.) they had this ides that all blonde hair blue eyed people were superior over all the races. If u werent like this, you were killed.
What were the Nazi extermination camps?
Nazi extermination camps (sometimes also called death camps) were facilities that the Nazis used to kill the Jews and Roma (gypsies). Unlike other concentration camps, the sole purpose of these camps was to kill.
They were the Final Solution. After removing citizenship and property, extracting the last energy or value they could provide, the raw material no longer had any value to the Nazi state, was too costly to maintain and required disposition.
The extermination camps were:
- Auschwitz II (part of the Birkenau section)
- Belzec
- Chelmno
- Majdanek (which was used as a back-up killing centre, when the others could not cope with the numbers)
- Sobibor
- Treblinka II
The above were all in Poland. Auschwitz I, III and the satellite camps were very harsh forced labour camps that had a very high death rate. Majdanek was also partly a very harsh forced labour camp, too.
Factoid. There are only two (yes, two!) known survivors from Belzec. 434,508 Jews and an unknown number of Romani/Sinti were killed there.
In addition, Maly Trostenets in Belarus is often counted as an extermination camp.
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The term 'death camp' is misleading as the death toll at all the different kinds of Nazi camps was high. There were extermination camps: they existed solely for the purpose of killing and for nothing else. There were also exceptionally harsh concentration camps, where the prisoners were systematically worked to death on grossly insufficient food.
There were two camps - the Auschwitz group and Majdanek - that served both functions, but that was unusual.
The first extermination camp was at Chelmno. It began large-scale routine (as opposed to experimental) gassings on 8 December 1941, using sealed vans with the carbon monoxide exhaust diverted into the vans. The total death toll at Chelmno is estimated at about 152,000-153,000 and there are only two (!) known survivors.
Concentration camps, originally established for political prrisoners, had been established already in March 1933. Dachau, near Munich, was the first concentration camp. It had a high death toll but it was not an extermination camp.
The six exterminations camps of the Holocaust were all in Europe. They were:
- Auschwitz-Birkenau (part)
- Chelmno
- Belzec
- Sobibor
- Majdanek (part)
- Treblinka
The above list has a quasi-canonical status. There were at least two smaller extermination camps in Belarus, and there is debate about the precise role of Majdanek.
Did Hitler send gay Germans to concentration camps?
The Nazis absolutely hated gays. Many of those who could not be convicted by due process of law (for example, people who were rumoured to be gay) were sent to concentration camps and many were killed.
The Nazis wished to exterminate everyone who didn't fit into their idea of what the 'Aryan master Race' should comprise of, hence their killing of; Jews, homosexuals, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, the disabled...
When was Dachau concentration camp established?
Established in March 1933, the Dachau concentration camp was the first permanent concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government. Heinrich Himmler, in his capacity as police chief of Munich, officially described the camp as the first concentration camp for political prisoners. It opened amid much publicity as it was intended as a deterrent to opponents of the regime.
The camp was housed in a disused munitions factory.
The first prisoners arrived at Dachau on 22 March 1933 and this is regarded as the opening date. Himmler gave a press conference about it at the time, and its existence was never a secret.
Initially Dachau was run by the SA, not specifically by the SS. Later, Dachau became the model for all ordinary Nazi concentration camps.
What are the dates of operation for belzec camp?
Belzec extermination (death) camp started gassings on 17 March 1942 and ceased to function by 31 December 1942. In that time 434,508 Jews and an unknown number of Gypsies were killed there. It was the deadliest Nazi camp of all. There are only two(!) known survivors. (Note. A small 'ordinary' concentration camp existed at Belzec from 1940-41).
How many concentration camps were there in World War II?
Many of the camps had satellite camps, some of which functioned for only fairly short periods of time. The Wikipedia article - see below - gives the names of the main camps and some information about the satellite camps.
What is the exact date that Elie Wiesel was freed from the camps?
1945, when Buchenwald was liberated.
What happened in concentration camps at the end of World War 2?
These concentration camps were ended after Hitler committed suicide and when the war ended. These people were all released that were still there. These concentration camps were ended after Hitler committed suicide and when the war ended. These people were all released that were still there. These concentration camps were ended after Hitler committed suicide and when the war ended. These people were all released that were still there.
What did the sign above the entrance to Auschwitz say?
"Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work makes you free). Of course it was an attempt to calm the fears of the Jews and others who entered there so that they wouldn't realize that they were about to be executed.
"Arbeit Macht Frei""Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work brings freedom" or "Work liberates") was the sign over the gates of Auschwitz. It was placed there by Rudolf Hoess, the first commandant of the camp, though he did not invent this saying.___
This slogan was placed above the main entrances to all Nazi concentration camps, except Buchenwald. "Arbeit macht frei" had been adopted in 1929 as the slogan for the Weimar Republic's public works programme, which was introduced to provide jobs for the unemployed. The saying is, however, older ... Buchenwald used the slogan "Jedem das Seine" - "To each according to his merits" or "To each according to his just deserts"), which goes back to Classical Latin "Suum cuique".
When did the allied troops discover Auschwitz?
Approaching Allied forces discovered the camps throughout Poland after hasty retreats by German camp officers and guards.
They discovered:
.Emaciated prisoners
.Desperate survivors
.Mass graves as well as dead bodies lying in the open
What were the first concentration camps?
At least one school of thought dates them to Nazi Germany in WWII where actual extermination camps existed however the Boer War is an alternative starting point where the term itself originated. Lord Kitchner certainly never intended them to fall into the horrible state of filth, starvation and depravity that the decendants of those times insist existed. It is true that death was rampant and conditions were deplorable but the British did not put ground glass in the mealies. While very early civilized societies may have used this practice that we either don't know about or at least do not acknowledge, the first known and established historical concentration camp was called Oklahoma in the United States of America. A place where Native Americans were isolated simply because of their ethnicity. It was a ghetto of the first order, guarded, exploited and de-humanized. The blame for this problem may be very ancient but Historically the concentration camp's birthplace is Oklahoma. but idk what im talkin about becuz i havent even wrote done da actuall answa yett
How were people treated in Nazi concentration camps?
Prisoners of German and Japanese Concentration Camps were usually on starvation diets and were worked, generally to death. Many prisoners deemed "unfit to survive" were shot, hung, gassed and then buried in mass graves or cremated and then the ashes spread to the winds.
Other camps, such as the Star Camp and Hungarian Camp, the inmates were treated decently.
When did the first concentrarion camp open in Germany?
The first concentration camp opened in Germany was the Dachau camp, which was near Munich. It opened on March 22, 1933, early in Adolf Hitler's reign. It was originally intended to act as a sort of prison for Communists who had been arrested after the Reichstag fire.
Why were concentration camps used?
I believe you are referring to the concentration camps in which the holocaust played a major role during, and before the second world war.
Concentration camps like Dachau, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen and the infamous Auschwitz were camps which held people who were Jewish, Gypsy, Homosexual, Communist, Slavas well as other minority groups who were hated by Hitler and the Nazis during that time (1933-1945).
Mass exterminations occurred whereby millions of these people were killed by means of starvation, gassing, shooting, and even 'medical' experimentation.
About 6 million Jews alone died as a result of the Holocaust. In 1941-1945 some concentration camps (the extermination camps) were holding non-stop executions around the square clock to keep up with the number of people arriving.
The inmates were told to go to the shower block when they got there however when they went in there they were locked in and gassed; then there bodies were burnt.
AnswerThe first use of a "Concentration camp" was during the South African, or Boer War, 1899 to 1901. The British used the method of rounding up the women and children of the Boer fighters, and holding them in barbed wire camps. The idea was to force the Boers to give up, to get their families back. It didn't work.The Boers were fighting a guerrilla war, and the British wanted to deprive them of food and shelter ... And yes, it did work.
The English did succeed in winning the war by this method. With their Australian and Canadian volunteers they were not able to win it by fighting the Boers but by demoralizing them through starving 26,000 Boer women and children, and up to 40,000 black farm workers and their families. It was so much more than just depriving them of food and shelter!
Unfortunately, the world is not very aware of these facts. This situation was so bad that Emily Hobbhouse had to make England and the rest of Europe aware of what the British were doing in South Africa in the name of Imperialism and gold greed. The concentration camps were only stopped after continued pressure from the rest of Europe.
The war and the tactics used was the most embarrassing and costly war Britain had ever fought, and ironically, one of the Boer generals, Gen. Louis Botha, became the first Prime minister of South Africa in 1910, only 7 years after the war.
It is estimated that more than 30% of all Boer women and children died in the concentration camps; and this incredible "Holocaust" in South Africa that had a huge impact on the Boers as a nation, not just in numbers, but internationally unrecognised emotional scars for decades there after! So if you want to know whether it worked; it was probably more effective than the Holocaust under the Nazis!
['30% of all Boer women and children'. The usual figure quoted is 27,000 Boers out of a total of 126,000 Boer prisoners in concentration camps perished. That is about 21%, which is shocking, but it's not 30%].
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Concentration camps were basically camps Adolf Hitler made to hold his prisoners. He would kill the women and children, and worked the men to death.
Nazi concentration camps (and others) were beyond the scope of the rule of law. For example, SS men could not be tried by ordinary courts for killings that they committed 'in the course of their duties'. They were subject only to SS rules and discipline.
Why did the Nazis take photographs of the Concentration Camps?
Because, the Nazis wanted to keep record for future uses such as exchang Jews for war equipment and they wanted to keep the numbers of people in the concentration camps because hitler wanted to make sure people know who was in it and how much.
Where is the concentration camp Mauthausen?
It's located in Austria, around 20 kilomoters away from the city of Linz. It was one of the most brutal concentration camps-- a category 3-- which was the worse. to learn more about it go to www.ushmm.org or jewishgen.org or just try google. It is very interesting to learn about it and very devastating at the same time
What were the conditions like at the death camp?
Conditions at a death camp were as it sounds in the title "death camp". There was mass starvation and gas chambers were killing thousands every week. And disease such as typhoid fever, malaria, and other infections were standard for most people. inside barracks where hundreds of people slept, there was long rows of bunk beds with no mattress but sometimes hay, and two or more people shared one bunk with one blanket per person. guards did not need reason or permission to kill Jews. Escape attempts were punished by death from either torture or the gas chamber.
Who started the concentration camp at Auschwitz?
It was started in May 1940 by the SS. At that stage it was not an extermination camp. Please see the related question.
How did the prisoners travel to Auschwitz concentration camp?
The victims were transported to the camps by rail, usually in enclosed cattle wagons. There were no breaks for food or water or any other essentials. Often the journey (for example, from Western Europe or Greece) took 3-5 days on those slow goods trains, and a fair number died during the journey.
Moreover, the trains didn't necessarily run straight from, say the Netherlands to Auschwitz. They often made a detour in order to drop some victims off at a couple of other extermination camps.
What was daily life like at Sobibor Death Camp?
At most of the extermination camps (as opposed to ordinary concentration camps) there was almost no 'daily life'. At Belzec the newly arrived Jews and Gypsies were gassed as soon as possible after arrival. The rail transports were timed in such a way as to avoid the need for much accommodation at the camp. (Occasionally, there were bottle-necks and the victims had to spend some time, seldom more than 24 hours, at the camp).
One of the more revolting features of the Holocaust was the fact that some Jews were forced to help cremate or bury the corpses. These men did live at the camp.
Note that there are only two (!) known survivors from Belzec, while at least 440,000 victims were murdered there.
They were death camps - life was all but unbearable.
