Nazi Concentration Camps

They wore old German prisoner uniforms, old rags, and sometimes they didn't wear anything. The clothing was usually thin cloth. They didn't wear underclothing.

Hitler made the Jews the scapegoat for everything that was wrong in Germany and convinced enough people that they were taking up space that would be better used by his "Master Race" of Aryans; or if you really mean why it was done in the camps instead of somewhere else, that was more or less a business decision - mass executions were more efficient. It also hid the truth to some extent. People knew that their neighbors had been taken away to a "camp" but in the beginning very few people knew the true purpose of these camps.

Slaughtering Jews publicly, in the streets, in full view of the public, might have aroused sympathy. It would also have been a form of public disorder - something the Nazi leadership disliked. This happened in Bucharest, the capital of Nazi Germany's ally, Romania, the Nazis ordered a halt to public killings. After all, it made everything just a little too obvious.

It began as a big concentration camp, mainly for Poles and was extended in stages. Auschwitz I used existing buidlings to a large extent and most of it was in use in 1940. Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was built in 1941-42 and Auschwitz III (Monowitz) in 1942.

Several sub-camps (about 35) were added.

Mostly Jews but their was same normal polish civilians who looked jewish

Well they made the Jews work or the burned them in ovens, or in another way. Then they did imaginable things to the Jews. Just think next time when you go to the doctor and you have to get surgery or get medicine, just thank the Nazis for it.

Dachau was "opened" on March 22, 1933 when about 150 political prisoners were moved there from other prisons in the area. The SS moved in April and the next day the first prisoners were murdered.

To keep control of generally a considered enemy such as the Jews during WWII and the Japanese in the U.S. and Canada. Canada had what they lovingly called "camps" in the Interior of B.C. The people were freezing in the winter and frying in the summer. They were given just the necessities in clothing and food and no more. Even though they were Canadian citizens they were considered the enemy and thus they lost their homes and contents in the homes. Unfair? You bet it was! At least they should have put them into more comfortable lodgings in the camps and kept their homes and contents for them to come back too. Just recently the Canadian Gov't had to pay per Japanese person and their children a $17,000 for this treatment. It did nothing to take the nightmarish trauma away and the loss they incurred.

Auschwitz I (or 1) was the original camp established in May 1940. It was an extremely harsh concentration camp, mainly for political prisoners - especially members of the Polish resistance.

Auschwitz II (or 2, aka Birkenau) was begun in October 1941. It housed the extermination camp with the gas chambers and the women's camp as well as various other camps.

Concentration camps were mean. The prisoners had to sleep on hard wooden bunks. They had insufficient food and were basically treated like slaves.

From what I've learned, they were transported to concentration camps in cattle cars on trains. It was a long trip, and they did not stop to use the restroom ...

Once there, they would be split into two groups, one group the weaker (e.g. women, children, elderly, sick, etc.) and unfit to work. They were often killed. The stronger group would be stripped of their clothes, shaved, and they no longer had a name. They had a number.

They were starved, overworked, there was lice, the living conditions were horrendous! Often more people died of exhaustion, hunger, or disease than being gassed. Once people were dead, their bodies were buried or the Germans tried to destroy the evidence.

Those who survived concentration camps are amazing. It is unimaginable doing this to humans, but even more so to survive that.

All prisoners in concentration camps - regardless of background - wore the striped prison uniform.

The small number of surving inmates left soon after the camps were liberated, mostly in 1945. Most needed medical and nursing care before they could again try to lead a normal life.

Six million Jews and five million "undesirables" were killed in concentration camps or elsewhere. The undesirables were people Hitler deemed not welcome in the pure Aryan Europe he dreamed of ruling. They were mentally ill, feeble minded, dwarves, human with anomalies and deformities, communists, Hitler's enemies, and anyone else he chose to throw in the concentration camps and extermination camps.

It depended upon their location, going to a camp that was closer was more efficient. It depended on need also, if (for example) a factory in Silesia needed workers, then able bodied inmates would be sent there.

Nothing much until 1971 when it was turned into Han's Dance und Disco.

they were separated by women and men, after that, they were separated again into those who could work usually, healthy, strong, and young (age usually around 12-40 years old) however those who didn't fit the match of the ideal working person would be sent to a death camp if they weren't already at one. :(

Probably about 1 million at Auschwitz. The overall number of Jews killed in the Holocaust is traditionally given as 6 million.

The first major camp liberated by Soviet forces was Majdanek on 22 July 1944. (They had retaken the site of Maly Trostenets earlier, but there were no survivors left to liberate: all the prisoners had been killed).

I'm not sure of your questions...if you mean sports that were being played around the world while the holocaust was going on, then that was in the early 1940's, so you got most of the olympic sports (not new inclusions like sand v-ball), baseball/football/soccer...pretty much all the same ones today unless they were invented in the last 60 years.

Dachau was first concentration camp. It opened in 1933 near Munich and was originaly designed to hold political prisoners, but later expanded to include "asocials" such as homosexuals, "professioanl criminals" etc.

It was a work camp and while deaths from poor conditions and guard brutality were high its purpose was not extremination. Chelmno in Poland was first extermination camp, camp whose purpose was mass killing.

Yes. The first published descriptions of conditions in concentration camps were published from August 1933 onwards and appeared in all major languages. (Please note that these were not extermination camps for Jews, but mainly intended for political opponents. The extermination camps were built later).

Extremely! Many accounts (Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, etc.) state that if a building was meant for 300, the Nazis would fit 700 or so. When the Danish Red Cross were visiting the transit camp Theresienstadt, many inmates were shipped to Auschwitz due to the over-crowdingness.

Some Jews were immediently gassed upon arrival. However...

You would wake up and work, for example, carry anvils to make weapons for the war and get turnip soup and potato peels. There was very little room full of many people. You would sleep on bunks next to around 3 or 4 people. It was cold and you would be beaten if you didn't do something right but that's only if you're lucky. The smell of the dead was around, and disgusting.

When Jews were marching and someone stepped out of line they would be shot and then creamated; if you we're a child you would probably go straight to the gas chamber; if you were a woman [often] the same thing would happen; if you were a man you were more lucky if you worked in the end they still would have killed you. It was a devastating time.

On 24 July 1944 the Soviets reached Lublin in Poland and found the destroyed, evacuated and burned out remains of Majdanek. In August they reached the abandoned camps at Sobibor and Treblinka.