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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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Did the Nazis cut off womens breast in concentration camps?
In testimony given in trials of war crimes German two women stated that this happened. There were rapes and the murder of 2 million women by Russian troops. Yes, there is also testimony by women who had this happen in concentration camps. In Auschwitz doctors did this for experimental reasons. Sexual assault and violence was used constantly against women.
Why did they choose the Jews for the extermination camp?
BECAUSE Jews, roma, gypsies and handicapped were seen as a serios biological threat to the purity of the German race. so they had to be "exterminated"...*cough* 'killed' *cough* the Nazis also blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in world war I. communists, socialists, Jehovah's witnesses, homosexuals, and freemasons were killed and mistreted because
What were the characters in Anne Frank?
Otto Frank - Anne's father.
Margot Frank-Anne's older sister
Edith Frank - Anne's mother.
Mr. van Daan - The father of the family that hides in the annex along with the Franks
Mrs. van Daan - Mr. van Daan's wife.
Albert Dussel - A dentist
Mr. Kugler - A man wo helps hide the Franks in the annex.
Mr. Kleiman - Another man who helps the Franks hide.
Bep Voskuijl - A worker in Otto Frank's office.
Mr. Voskuijl - Bep's father.
Miep Gies - A secretary at Otto's office who helps the Franks hide.
Jan Gies - Miep's husband.
Hanneli - Anne's school friend.
Peter Schiff - The love of Anne's life from the sixth grade
Hello Silberberg - A boy with whom Anne has an innocent, though romantic relationship before she goes into hiding.
What some of the names of POW camps in Mississippi during the second world war?
Camp Shelby was used to house some of the high-ranking German officers during WW2. Camp Shelby was a large training camp for many soldiers. It still operates today as an Army training facility located just south of Hattisburg, MS. It houses the Armed Forces Museum, which displays artifacts from all the wars and some related to the POW activities. Custermen
Who were the 2 survivors in Chelmno?
- Mordechai Podchlebnik
- Simon Srebnik
As far as I know, Srebnik was a 'pipel' and one of the SS men who had taken him off to the woods for 'long walks' let him escape.
Was there still concentration camps after world war 2?
Yes, some people survived concentration camps. They are known as Holocaust Survivors. Some are even alive today, such as Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner and author of his memoir Night.
How many people died at Auschwitz by the end of the war?
It's estimated that 1.6 million people died at Auschwitz.
What does Anne plan to do when she leaves the annex?
She decided that when she grew up after the war, she would become an author, and write a book called 'The Secret Annexe' based on her experience during hiding. Unfortunately, she never got out of the annexe, because her and her fellow 'hiders' were found, and sent to concentration camps. The last camp Anne was sent to, Bergen-Belsen, is where she died of typhus, shortly before her sixteenth birthday, and shortly after the death of her sister Margot, who also died of typhus.
How many people were killed during the Nazi holocaust?
It has been estimated that about 13.5 Million people were murdered during the Holocaust. 6.6 Million being Jews, 3 Million being Soviet POW's, 1.9 Million being Non-Jewish Poles. Other kinds of people such as the Mentally and Physically Disables along with Criminals, Black People and Romas were also killed the Nazi Genocide which is known as the Holocaust.
How do you get from Amsterdam to Auschwitz?
The shortest route by road from Amsterdam to Auschwitz is 448 miles (721km).
What did hitler think of armenians?
He had really no opinion on them as people, although they would certainly be lesser people on account of their non-Nordic heritage. However, he noted how the world ignored the Armenian genocide and argued that his genocide of the Jews, Romani, and other undesirables would be similarly ignored.
How did Buna compare and contrast with Auschwitz II?
Buna is a work camp mainly and it is also in Auschwitz as well as the main Auschwitz camp and Auschwitz-Birkenau, the death camp.
Why was there liberation of concentration camps?
What kind of question is this? They were liberated because the Nazis were torturing and exterminating thousands of people every day. They liberated the camps because they were decent human beings.
Did all concentration camps have gas chambers?
Yes there where.. Bur they were never used. In 1945 berlin ordered theresienstadt to exterminate all Jews before the red army libaretes the camp. So Theresianstadt build the chambers.. Fortunatly The red army libareted the camp before the chambers where active..
When were the Nazi death camps invented?
Labour camps: concentration camps where interned inmates had to do hard physical labour under inhumane 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 (Durchgangslager or Dulag).
POW camps: concentration camps where prisoners of war were held after capture. These POW's endured torture and liquidation on a large scale.
Camps for rehabilitation and re-education of Poles: camps where the intelligentsia of the ethnic Poles were held, and "re-educated" according to Nazi values as slaves.
Hostage camps (or death 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, systematic extermination of new-arrivals occurred in very specific camps. Of these, four were extermination camps, where all new-arrivals were simply killed - the "Aktion Reinhard" camps (Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec), together with Chelmno. Two others (Auschwitz and Majdanek) were combined concentration and extermination camps. Others were at times classified as "minor extermination camps".
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp facility, was located nearby the provincial Polish town of Oshwiecim in Galacia, and was established by order of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler on 27 April 1940.
Treblinka-The death camp at Treblinka was located in the north-eastern region of the Generalgouvernement, in a sparsely populated area near Malkinia Gora, a junction on the Warsaw. The labour camp functioned from June 1941 until 23 July 1944.
Dachau Concentration Camp-was Germany's first concentration camp, started in 1933 because the prisons were overflowing with people the government didn't like. They didn't have enough money to just build more prisons the way we do in our War on Drugs, so the Nazis built work camps like Dachau. Dachau is distinctive because it was here that SS personnel (Eichmann, Hess) trained for work in newer camps such as Auschwitz.
Chelmno-The deathcamp at Chelmno was established to kill the Jews of the Warthegau (the annexed Polish province of Poznan and parts of the vojwodships Bydgoszcz, Lodz, Pomorze and Warsaw). In 1939 4,922,000 people lived in these districts, among them 385,000 Jews.
Sobibor- Construction on the camp began in March 1942, overseen by SS Obersturmführer Richard Thomalla
Belzec extermination camp, the model for two others in the 'Aktion Reinhard' murder program, started as a labor camp in April 1940. Belzec was situated in the Lublin district forty-seven miles north of the major city of Lvov, conveniently between the large Jewish populations of south east Poland and eastern Galicia.
Majdanek concentration camp in the Polish city of Lubin was in operation from October 1, 1941 to July 23, 1944 when it was liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Union.
What did Auschwitz look like before the Holocaust?
There are actually two prison camps- Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz Birkenau.
Auschwitz 1 was formally a soldier barracks, and so looks mildly 'normal' it has rows of houses, streets etc but with walls, barbed wire and towers. However, there is a gas chamber there which is rather horrific.
Auschwitz Birkenau was the larger, purpose built camp- it is unbelievably massive. You enter through the main gates and their are literally sheds as far as the eye can see. Blown up gas chambers at the end from where the Germans attempted to hide the evidence.
What kind of people were sent to treblinka?
the vast majority were Jews, a large proportion were from the Warsaw ghetto.
What happened to the Buchenwald concentration camp?
A section of the camp has been preserved as a memorial and small museum.
Was there any concentration camp called jadwiga in Poland?
It was originally a ghetto, but later had six separate camps in the ghetto area.
- Konzentrationslager (concentration camp) at Koło area (formerly a Kreigsgefangenenlager POW camp for the Polish Army soldiers captured in 1939);
- Vernichtungslager (extermination camp) near the Warszawa Zachodnia train station (this part remains very controversional);
- Gęsia Street (now: Anielewicza Street) concentration camp (formerly Arbeitserziehungslager, or "re-educational labour camp") in the former getto known as Gęsiówka;
- a camp for foreign Jews located on Nowolipie Street;
- Bonifraterska Street camp near Muranowski Square in the former ghetto;
- the former Gestapo prison on Pawia Street known as Pawiak.
After the complete destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in April-May 1943 the area was used as the site of a concentration camp.
Were any human experiments conducted at the concentration camps?
The medical experiments were gruesome and had little merit for the rest of the medical world. There motivations for the experiments were mostly about studying sub-humans according to their view. See the attached links.
What did they do with the dead in concentration camps?
basically most of them were buried in mass graves.
What Nazi Concentration Camp had the fewest deaths?
If one takes the term concentration camp in a general sense (and includes extermination camps) these had only two known survivors each:
- Belzec (total killed 434,508)
- Chelmno (total killed at least 152,000)
Maly Trostinets (near Minsk) had no known survivors at all, not even one.
When and why were people forced on death marches at Auschwitz?
In November of 1944, in the face of the approaching allied Red Army, Himmler ordered gassings to stop and for a "clean-up" operation to be put in place in order to conceal traces of the mass murder and other crimes that they had committed. The Nazi's destroyed documents and dismantled, burned down or blew up the vast majority of buildings.
The orders for the final evacuation and liquidation of the camp were issued in mid-January 1945. The Germans left behind in the main Auschwitz camp, Birkenau and in Monowitz about 7,000 sick or incapacitated who they did not expect would live for long; the rest, approximately 58,000 people, were evacuated by foot into the depths of the Third Reich.
Those prisoners capable, began forcibly marching at the moment when Soviet soldiers were liberating Cracow, some 60 kilometers from the camp. In marching columns escorted by heavily armed SS guards, these 58,000 men and women prisoners were led out of Auschwitz from January 17-21. Many prisoners lost their lives during this tragic evacuation, known as the "Death March."
Why did the US keep the Japanese in concentration camps?
It was feared that Japanese Americans would be more loyal to Japan, which was at war with the US during WW II, than they were to the US in which they lived. This was very unfair to the Japanese who had done nothing to demonstrate disloyalty to America, and the wartime internment of the Japanese remains a shameful blot on American history.
