Nazi Concentration Camps

The Germans set-up many camps in occupied Poland perhaps 2,000. These included concentration and labour camps mostly for ethnic Poles. There were also ghettos and death camps most for ethnic Jews.

Yes. Of course the guards and administrators were paid. They were not expected to work simply out of devotion to the Nazi cause.

It was actually Dachau Concentration Camp, and a total of 31,951 deaths. 25,334 of them Jews.

They were not called that. They were called prison camps. Unlike the German concentration camps of World War 2, prisoners were not deliberately put to death. Prisoners were given very meager rations. They went hungry. In the Confederate camps, they received the same meager rations as the solders in the field. They too went hungry. The solders in the field would steal food as they marched through the land. They only went hungry as they camped and depended on the supply wagons for food.

Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp located near Celle, north of Hanover. For a long time it was a special camp for people with infectious diseases, but later was used as a dumping ground for people moved there from Auschwitz. When it was liberated by the British Army on 15 April 1945, they were greeted by a sight so horrific that initially the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) was unwilling to report it! The British Army ordered German doctors and nurses to tend the sick and issued an immediate appeal for British personnel to volunteer to help there.

On arrival at Belzec the victims were gassed as soon as practical (except for a tiny minority chosen to dig graves and move corpses). In all, 434,508 Jews and an unknown number of gypsies were killed there. There were only two (yes, two!) known survivors. (It is the only case where an exact number of Jewish victims can be given, thanks to an intercepted SS telegramme sent when gassings at Belzec had finished).

There was millions of children who walked in and only 100 children came out alive and in good health,

It really depends, especially on your purpose there and how you worked.

Some survived to tell the story whilst other died soon after arrival or a couple months later (approximately 3-8 months).

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you pronounce berk-ken-now for birkenau

or Beer-ken-ow

Majdanek, on the edge of Lublin, Poland was the first major camp to be liberated (22 July 1944). Thanks to a sudden advance by the Soviet Army, the SS didn't have time to blow up the crematoria or gas chambers, and the camp was almost intact when liberated. It was primarily an exceptionally harsh concentration camp, where the guards sometimes amused themselves by killing prisoners with clubs and other blunt instruments and by torturing them. Another part was an extermination camp with gas chambers. There is some evidence that it was used mainly as a "back up" killing centre, when there was insufficient capacity at other camps, especially Auschwitz. An estimated 78,000 victims were killed there.

the guards..

The guards and the Commandant.

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presumably you mean out of the inmates;

the problem was that any inmate could be killed at any time for no apparent reason.

but if one were to suggest a group that was least likely to be executed (as opposed to die - that would be a different answer), it would be the doctors or the workers in 'Kanada' or the orchestra or other entertainment groups.

The distance is about 30-32 miles.

they feel if they had a second chance to go back and Chang it they would

Yes, traces of cyanide have been found in the gas chambers at Auschwitz II. The concentrations are low, but this is not surprising given that the gas chambers were blown up and left exposed to the elements of about thirty years.

1,000 years His name is Harry, and he's at an international zoo in Thailand.

They usually did useless work such as digging holes and stuff like that. but sometimes they worked in factories. At one camp, there was a car factory that people were forced to work in as slaves.

It was hydrogen cyanide - It was used in crystal form and only very few crystals were needed to gas 2000 people. (Just FYI- It wasn't just Jews that were killed, there were many other minorities killed during this period that were seen to be inferior to the German population)

Their was hundreds of concentration camps and Jews wasn't sent to them from just Poland and Germany, slovakia, hungary, french and Austrian Jews was sent to them

but i give you a example

from Berlin to Auschwitz consecration camp is 490km - prime example

longest train ride during the holocaust was from France natzweiker to Latvia kieserwald is 1119 miles

but the people sent by trains do not all arrive in same destonation, some Jews and other sub humans are sent to other concentration camps along the way.

so time and speed varies on route,some could take several hours but some take a day or 2

Sobibor is located in a Polish forest about 12 km south of the village of Sobibor in the small locality named Stare Kolonia Sobibor.

In the late 1930's the Nazis killed thousands of handicapped Germans by lethal injection and poisonous gas. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, mobile killing units following in the wake of the German Army began shooting massive numbers of Jews and Roma (Gypsies) in open fields and ravines on the outskirts of conquered cities and towns. Eventually the Nazis created a more secluded and organized method of killing enormous numbers of civilians -- six extermination centers were established in occupied Poland where large-scale murder by gas and body disposal by cremation were systematically conducted. Victims were deported to these centers from Western Europe and from the ghettos in Eastern Europe which the Nazis had established. In addition, millions died in the ghettos and concentration camps as a result of forced labor, starvation, exposure, brutality, disease and execution.

More than 28000 Afrikaner women and children died in the concentration camps

The sole purpose of Treblinka was to kill Jews and gypsies as quickly as possible after their arrival. It was an extermination camp. A relatively small number of new arrivals were 'selected' for grave digging and sorting the possessions of gassed victims. For these reasons the camp was small, and the number of prisoners there was small, too - probably not more than about 1,500 at any time.