Why did Hitler locate the death camps outside of Germany?

Answer 1

Out of sight, out of mind. The german people didn't need to know about what was happening to Jews, at least Hitler didn't think they needed to know.


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Answer 2

Not all of the concentration camps run by Nazi Germany were located outside of Germany. Hitler had started sending political dissidents, homosexuals, the mentally and physically handicapped, Gypsies and Jews to camps located in Germany years before World War II began. These camps begans a work camps and some people would return after their sentence was completed. These were the camps that experiments on mass sterilization, and later mass execution begun at. They continued to operate through the course of the war, and contributed to many of the killings in the name of Aryan purity.

Camps were located outside of Germany for many reasons. The proximity to the populations that were slated for extirmination were one reason to open them up in conquered territories. That Poland and the Ukraine had larger poplulations of Jews was a reason that some many camps were opened in those areas. Being able to hide the camps from the western world, especially the US, was another reason that most of the camps outside Germany were opened in Eastern Europe.

Even setting aside the terrible human cost of the camps, which should not and is not done lightly, the camps were a huge waste of war resources. Trains, which could have been used to transport material or troops, were used to move vast numbers of people to the camps. Soldiers and bureaucrats were used to exterminate already subjugated people. The most wasteful part was the slaughter in itself. People who could have been soldiers or factory workers or farmers were killed. At the same time that much of the German populace was being killed in combat, the German state was killing people who had long roots in the German community.

Answer 3

This is a very good question.
Although there were concentration camps in Germany, when it came to the extermination camps to apply mass extermination to the enemies of the Reich, these were located in Poland at Auschwitz. Treblinka and Sobibor.
The reasons for this were complex but basically the Polish people had a long history of anti-Semitism so they would be unlikely to be sympathetic to the victims even if they managed to escape( this was found to be true in practise), the majority of the victims were to be found to the east of Germany, the transport links were good and safe from Allied bombing for most of the war and it was easier to keep it isolated in an occupied country.

Answer 4

The Auschwitz-Berkinau complex was in Poland, Dachau, sachsenhausen, Buchenwald and a host of others were in Germany. They were spread out in all the occupied territories. The most notorious (Auschwitz-Berkinau) topped out at 12,000 executions per day at its peak. The pharmaceutical conglomerate IG Farbin was supplying the SS with 4 1/2 tons of Zyclon B per month, per the bills of lading produced on the dock at Nuremburg.

The architect of the Nazis Final solution, Adolph Eichman, was a man of efficiency. His idea of victory in WWII was to exterminate as many Jews as possible. The locations of the death camps were to fill that purpose...ie, efficiency, not so much as being built outside of Germany. During the last days of the war, Eichman countermanded Hitler's orders and diverted trains meant to bring munitions to the Eastern Front, but rather deliver more Jews to the death camps....true story.

Answer 5

Auschwitz was in Southern Poland. There were many concentration camps in Germany, but all the extermination or death camps were located mainly in Poland. The Nazi's did this for several reasons, but the main one being they did not want the "filth" of those in the extermination camps "to penetrate good German air." They knew that as they burned the bodies, the ashes would have to go somewhere and they did not want this washing over Germany. Granted, there were many many deaths in concentration camps, but the majority of mass extermination took place in the extermination camps in Poland.

Answer 6

The answer seems pretty obvious to me. Especially being a 'lay student' of Adolph Hitler... The human mind is interesting to me, especially the deviants. Even though certain people do really bad things and are probably certifiable, in other words, really crazy, there are certain things in their brain that tells them, that they are not only doing wrong, but will be punished if caught. That's why he killed himself at the end. Even though he was disillusional in his own way, and acted like he wanted to blame someone else for his 'failures', he knew deep down inside he would be the one held responsible. So he put them outside Germany to keep the people from finding out. Wait a minute, are you sure he put all of them there? Then who were the ones the allies forced to go into the camps to see what was going on near their town?

Answer 7

As some said, he didnt locate. As the German Armies moved East, they needed places to put the untermenschen. These were in Poland for the most part. However, there were some in Germany. The largest camp closest to the capital was Sachsenhausen. It was a few miles north of Berlin. There were mainly political prisoners, but there was terrible medical experiments done there and it was a holding facility for jews awating shipment to Auschwitz.

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Answer 8

The ones he located outside of germany were so that 1. in the even of excape the prisoners would have so much difficulty in returning to Germany that they could never make it: 2. it was more cost effective as what supplies were used at the camps could be purchased locally cheaper than they could in Germany and 3. out of sight out of mind. If no one saw them...no one would think about them and no one would question what was happening.

Answer 9

he located some outside Germany so that they wouldn't have to transport the people so far just to kill them horribly. this saved both time and money- not to mention, eliminated a lot of people from escaping. plus, then the bodies were scattered about a little more-- instead of all being in Germany. that would have been one awfully smelly country.

Answer 10

Hitler didn't "locate" the camps. That detail was left up to Herr Himmler and his "staff." Then it became a matter of convenience: place the camps close to where most of the Jewish population was located (Eastern Europe).

Answer 11

He didn't Auschwitz which was one of the worst of the death camps was located in germany as was Dachau and others