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What was the purpose of Theresienstadt that set it apart from other camps?
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Part of Theresienstadt was an 'ordinary' concentration camp and a Gestapo prison (mainly for Czechs), and another part was a transit camp for 'prominent' German Jews. It was for a time a 'model concentration camp' that Germany could should off to the Red Cross. To some extent, the Jews there were allowed to organize their own lives. However, the grim reality was that prisoners were regularly sent by train to Auschwitz.
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What were nazi labor camps?
Transit camps were places to hold people until they could be shipped off to other camps such as execution or forced-labor camps. Well known transit camps include Westerbork (Netherlands) and Breendonk (Belgium).
What is the difference between death camps and labor camps?
Although the British are said to have invented and used concentration camps in the Boer War, such camps are mainly associated with Nazi Germany.The Nazis had four main types of camp:The Stalags: prisoner-of-war campsLabour camps: where slave labourers were housedConcentration camps: interim holding campsExtermination camps; where prisoners were murdered soon after arrival.Some concentration camps also has extermination facilities such as gas chambers and incinerators.British and Allied POWs were treated relatively well.Russian and East European POWs were treated very badly, often being starved or murdered.Slave labourers were treated sufficiently well to keep them useful to the Nazi state, but such workers did not last long before they became infirm and were shipped off for extermination.In concentration camps, conditions were hell on earth.In extermination camps, the poor victims did not have long to suffer before they were killed.
What kind of camps did they have during the Holocaust?
* Transit camps, where prisoners were held till they were moved to other kinds of camps. * Concentration Camps, Grade I - for example, Dachau. * Concentration Camps, Grade II - for example, Buchenwald. (These were harsher than Grade I camps and there was less food than at Grade I camps). * Concentration Camps, Grade III - for example, Auschwitz I and III. (Harsher and with less food than in Grade II camps - very high death rates). * Extermination camps - most of Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Treblinka II, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, Maly Trostenets and one section of Majdanek. These camps were designed as killing centres and nothing else. In addition, there were also concentration camps for 'difficult children' (!) aged 12+ and later even 2+ ...
What did Georgia have more of than other states in World War 1?
Training camps
How many other victims were murdered in the camps?
there is no exact number but i do know it was millions of Jews.
How many concentration camps did Adolf Hitler have?
what was Hitler's purpose for sending Jews to concentration camps and what is a concentration camp.
Where can you find information about Chelmno?
You seem to be asking a question about one of the six death camps built by the Nazis, named Chelmo in Poland. (Yes, there were many other camps, but there were six camps whose sole purpose was to murder Jews and other Nazi enemies, i.e they were not work camps etc..) Please see the link below.
What type of camp was Theresienstadt?
There were two separate camps at Theresienstadt. One was a Gestapo prison for actual and suspected members of the Czech resistance, the other was a concentration camp (and transit camp) for Jews. It was intended as a model concentration camp that could be shown off to the Red Cross, and it had many of the features of a ghetto, such a nominal self-government; some cultural activities were also allowed. However, about 33,000 inmates were killed and about 85,000 were sent to Auschwitz, where they were gassed.
What were prisoners jobs at Auchwitz?
Auschwitz was a extermination camp, unlike other camps, people were brought there solely for the purpose to be exterminated, not to work.
What kind of jobs did people have to do in concentration camps?
Apart from the usual cooking and cleaning and the like, there was very often construction to be done, or other types of manual labour. Most often, the majority of the inmates would be employed outside of the camps.
What different kinds of camps were there other than concentration camps?
Death camps
Did the Nazis kill other people apart from Jews?
Yes, they killed anyone who wasn't a Nazi in concentration camps and anyone they fought (i.e. Americans, Russians, etc.)
How many Jews were sent to Auschwitz from other Concentration Camps or Sub Camps?
According to numerouse sources and figures, Their's an estimate of 34,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz from other Nazi Concentration Camps or Sub-Camps. According to most Historians, it widely agreed that 33,734 Jews were sent to Auschwitz from other Nazi Concentration Camps or Sub-Camps.
When did Hitler visit Auschwitz?
Hitler never visited Auschwitz, nor any other death camps (not to be confused with concentration camps). This forms part of the argument that Hitler was not to blame for the Holocaust as he never directly ordered extermination. +++ A desperate argument because he knew perfectly well the purpose of the concentration and extermination camps as they were part of his own policy. That heading photo is of a pair of cremators in one of the camps.
What were other words for concentration camps?
There have been and are many euphemisms used at various times, these include; resettlement camps, re-education camps, prison camps and personal protection camps.
What people was sent to death camps?
The extermination camps (without forced labour camps) were only used for Jews and Romanies/Sinti (gypsies) only and were dismantled and in two cases grassed over when they had 'served their purpose'. Other categories were sent to ordinary concentration camps. ___ Handicapped people were killed in separate centres, and political prisoners, communists, trade unionists, habitual criminals, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, beggars and vagrants were sent to ordinary concentration camps.
Special prisons built by Nazis to hold Jewish?
The only camps built specifically for Jews were the extermination (death) camps. All the other camps had other prisoners, too.
