What were the concentration camps during the Holocaut in WW2?

Answer 1

During the Holocaust: A concentration camp was a place that Hitler sent thousands of Jews to die. The very old and the very young were killed first because they were too weak to do hard manual labor. These people were often told to strip down and then they were herded into the shower facilities by the hundreds. They all thought that they were getting cleaned, but instead the shower rooms were filled with poison gas, which of course killed them.
The people that were able to work were basically worked to death. These people often died from starvation because they were given minimal nutrition. They usually lived in shacks with mud floors. Hitler was trying to create a 'master race' by exterminating all other races.
Concentration camps during WW2 were basically the same thing: Death camps.
In N. Korea there are still concentration camps today.

Answer 2

Most of these answers are more or less correct. A lesser known fact is that the British set up 'Concentration Camps' during the Boer War in South Africa. They imprisoned women and children in special areas in an attempt to force the men to surrender. Although there is no evidence that these women and children were killed, many died of malnutrition and disease.

Answer 3

AKA the death camps.

These camps were mainly situated in Poland, but Poland was under German control.

As people entered these camps, they were arbitratily told to go to the left of to the right. On any given day, one of those sides meant that the people were almost immediately killed, the other meant that they were to be slave labourers or subjects of horrific medical experiments. (We had family freinds who managed to survive being interred at Auschwitz, and I am relating those eye-witness accounts.)

No matter which way they were told to turn, they were almost certainly slated for death. The slaves labourers were given meals that would leave someone with anorexia hungry, and were expected to perform hard physical labour. They were trememndously crowded into barracks in which every disease that has it's origins in poor hygiene could and did run rampant.

European Jews were not the only targets of this horror show. Yes, the estimate is that 6,000,000 Jews were murdered in the camps. But the estimate as well is that another 6,000,000 million people, including but limited to, Romany, communists, intelligensia, Catholics, common criminals, and the disabled were targeted and murdered in the same manner.

Did you know that the sign over the entrace to Auschwitz read, translated into English, as "Work Makes You Free"?


Yes, there were internment camps in the US and in Canada for people of Japanese decent, who lived in the western portions of both countries. But these were not death camps. They were reprehensible, yes, but they were not death camps. Further, the eastern coast of North America is much closer to Germany and Italy than the west coast is to Japan, and yet people of German and Italian decent in the eastern portions of hte US and Canada were rarely, if ever, similarly interned. These North American internment camps were about xenophobia.

Answer 4

Camps were an essential part of the Nazis' systematic oppression and mass murder of Jews, political adversaries, and others considered socially and racially undesirable. There were concentration camps, forced labor camps, extermination or death camps, transit camps, and prisoner-of-war camps. The living conditions of all camps were brutal.
Dachau , one of the first Nazi concentration camps, opened in March 1933, and at first interned only known political opponents of the Nazis: Communists, Social Democrats, and others who had been condemned in a court of law. Gradually, a more diverse group was imprisoned, including Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies , dissenting clergy, homosexuals, as well as others who were denounced for making critical remarks about the Nazis.

Six death or extermination camps were constructed in Poland. These so-called death factories were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec , Sobibór, Lublin (also called Majdanek ), and Chelmno . The primary purpose of these camps was the methodical killing of millions of innocent people. The first, Chelmno, began operating in late 1941. The others began their operations in 1942.

Answer 5

Auschwitz, Birkenau, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor, Dachau, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Nordhausen

Answer 6

These" concentration camps" were camps were set up to hold prisoners. These so called prisoners were the Jews that the Germans were doing horrible things to. there were also set up here in the US when Pearl Harbor was bomb...Japanese Americans were put here. little is mention that this took place. but one major difference was that the camps over here( US) wasn't experimenting and killing the people in these camps.

Answer 7

Concentration camps were places where the "lesser people," or people, "not of Aryan decent." Were kept. There were three major types of camps:

-"Freedom camps," which were places where rich Jews and gays and black could pay to live in. Conditions were very good.

-Forced labor, like Plazsow, possible the worst of the war. Umsterfurher Amon Goeth led this camp, who was brutal.

-Death camps, like Auschwitz. These camps were places where Jews were gassed and then burned.

Answer 8

These camps were set up to hold anyone hitler did'nt like most people think it was the jews that were held in them but homosexuals ,gypsies , communists in fact just about anyone who did'nt agree with the the regime , these people were either worked to death or died in the gas chambers, some were used as guinea pigs in horrific medical experiments and the young girls were used as unpaid prostitutes for german soldiers.

Answer 9

Before the end of World War II, the Germans had set up more than one hundred major concentration camps with several thousand satellite labor camps. ...


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Answer 10

Holding camps/death camps,used for slave labour by german industrialists
medical experiments by doctors. one of the most notorious doctors of
course was Josef Mengele (The Angel Of Death).Apart from the above, you
would probably die from some disease prevalent in the camps, something
like Typhus, Tuberculosis, etc.most common inmates jews, homosexuals,
political dissidents more or less anybody that did'nt fit in or agree with
Nazism