The main concentration camp was Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the largest camp that was created by the Nazi. It was broken down into three main camps. The first camp was built in April 1940. It was known as Auschwitz 1. The second camp was built in October 1941. It was known as Birkenau. The third Camp was built in October 1942. It was known as Buna. The number of Victims in the Auschwitz Complex alone were absurd. The SS and police killed about 1.1 million people of all different backgrounds out of the
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Nazi Death Camp in 1942. Firstly‚ until mid-1943‚ the main death camps were camps similar to Sobibor‚ Belzec‚ and Treblinka. However‚ when all of the ‘non desirables’ had been liquidated‚ these camps shut down. Death camps were only meant to be a temporary place‚ and once their job was completed‚ they would quickly be dismantled. Auschwitz was different. It incorporated a Labour camp – so was designed for a much longer use than its’ contenders. The fact that it was one of the few camps that wasn’t
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From 1941 through 1945 a total of some 3.5 million Jews met their deaths in Nazi extermination camps. These "death camps" as they are often referred to had the single goal of eliminating the Jews while hiding these crimes under a shroud from the rest of the world. Unlike the "concentration camps" of the same time‚ where Jews were brainwashed and ordered to do labor for the Germans yet still often killed‚ the death camps were devised solely for the mass killings of prisoners. There was no discrimination
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Concentration Camps Ten Boom‚ Corrie. The Hiding Place. Germany: Bantam Books 1974 In Corrie’s book The Hiding Place it offers a more personal view into the concentration camps in Germany and all her personal experiences along the way. It offers a direct view into her thoughts and emotions and being able to imagine it so clearly the state of the camps she went to. You feel all of her pain and see it all through her eyes with how clearly she explains it. The state of the camps being so dirty
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About 1.1 million prisoners were killed‚ only 90% were Jews (USHMC 2). This is what went on in Auschwitz from when the prisoners entered to when the prisoners left. Auschwitz Concentration Camp was opened in 1940 (ABEC 15). This camp was located in Poland (USHMC 26). As you entered this camp a sign that stated “Work Will Set You Free” was up to deceive the prisoners (ABEC 18). The prisoners thought if they worked‚ they would be set free. Auschwitz was originally used for army barracks (USHMC
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Nazi Concentration Camp Treblinka During World War II‚ there was a death camp owned by the Nazi’s located 62 miles northeast of Warsaw‚ in Poland. Its name was Treblinka after the nearby village not too far from Warsaw. The camp was first started in 1941 and designed for cogent labor for the criminals accused by Nazi authorities. But at the start of July 23‚ 1942 Treblinka would become a subdivision camp and renamed Treblinka I because another subdivision camp‚ only one mile from the original
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concentration camp located? What was the treatment like for the Jewish people who resided at the camp‚ and for the workers who occupied the camp. Where is Chelmno at now‚ and what happened to the camp? These are all simple question to answer‚ In the beginning of the war‚ the Chelmno concentration camp was one of the Nazi’s‚ and Hitler’s‚ first concentration camps. Chelmno was also one of the first camps to use gas vans. The not-so-well-known camp was created in December of 1941. The camp was split
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07/27/2011 Abstract Extermination camp (in German) was the term applied to a group of camps built by Nazi German during World War II with the express purpose of killing the "enemies" of the Nazi regime (Jews‚ Roma Gypsies‚ prisoners of Soviet war‚ as well as Polish and other). All this is part of the Holocaust and called Final Solution of the Jewish question‚ the plan to (in the words of Nazi) “German lands clean of the Jewish people”. These fields are also known as "death camps". The most common
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Many people are uninformed or uneducated about Franz Stangl. He is not considered one of the obvious when someone thinks of the Holocaust. Franz Stangl had three (3) important parts of his life: his childhood‚ his career‚ and his death. Although he had a seemingly normal childhood‚ this man grew to become the “White Death” of history. “Stangl was born on 26 March 1908 in Altmünster‚ located in the Salzkammergut region of Austria. The son of a nightwatchman‚ his relationship with his father was emotionally
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Fuehrer‚ Dachau (the first concentration camp) opened‚ and the Nuremburg laws stripped Jews of their citizenship and civil rights. This begs the question: what was daily life like for the average German Jew? Jewish life within extermination camps is well chronicled‚ but in this intermediary period between exclusion and extermination‚ less is known. Were the Jews responsible in their own demise‚ as modern Nazi
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