Bergen-Belsen!!?

Question

Okay, so I looked but I can not find an answer for "Bergen-Belsen's Uses"

I need about three short paragraphs.. please help.



thank you.

Answer 1

Sorry if this is too long, but I was trying to be complete as possible. Bergen-Belsen had a number of uses throughout its existence.

Bergen-Belsen was a camp near Hanover in northwest Germany, located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen. It was built in 1940 as a prisoner-of-war camp for French and Belgian prisoners. In 1941, it was renamed Stalag 311 and used to confine about 20,000 Russian prisoners.

The camp was converted into a concentration camp in 1943. During this period, the camp was used mainly as a holding camp for various classes of political prisoners and "undesireables". Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland. As one can see, very few were actually exchanged and the SS and German police deported most of them to Auschwitz to be killed.

The camp was divided into eight sections, a detention camp, two women’s camps, a special camp, neutrals camps, "star" camp (mainly Dutch Jews who wore a Star of David on their clothing instead of the camp uniform and who were being held there until they could be transported to Auschwitz), Hungarian camp and a tent camp.

Conditions in the camp were relatively "good" by concentration camp standards, and most prisoners were not subjected to forced labor. However, beginning in the spring of 1944 the situation deteriorated rapidly. In March, Belsen was redesignated an Ehrholungslager [Recovery Camp], where prisoners of other camps too sick to work were brought, though none received medical treatment. As the German Army retreated in the face of the advancing Allies, other concentration camps were evacuated and their prisoners sent to Belsen. Tens of thousands of prisoners from other camps came to Bergen-Belsen after agonizing death marches. The facilites in the camp were unable to accommodate the sudden influx of prisoners and all basic services - food, water and sanitation - collapsed, leading to the outbreak of typhus. More than 35,000 people died of starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and sadistic medical experiments.

It was designed to hold 10,000 prisoners, however, by the war’s end more than 60,000 prisoners were detained there. The numbers would have been much greater had the death rate not been so high.

In 1946, Belsen was converted into the largest Displaced Persons camp, housing more than 11,000 Jews. It was the only exclusively Jewish camp in the British zone of occupation.

Answer 2

About all I know is that Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp during WWII where many thousands of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, and other so-called "undesirables" were put to death.

Answer 3

like all the replies up above...........you might find it easier to look up just Belsen..........same place.............and it ranked very high up with the other more well known concentration camps........

Went there as a kid as well as going to Dacuha [sp] very very sad places, did you know in certain areas of the sites you can not hear a thing, no birds singing, nothing almost like being in a sound vacuum...and at the time you could turn over a small piece of the earth and there was not a living thing in it............no ants, no worms nothing........eerie to say the least, left a huge impact on me as I went about 34 years ago and can still recall the horror of seeing one of the pictures of a room FULL from top to bottom with baby bootees and shoes and little sandals and the sign underneath saying that it was a days takings from the babies that got put into the gas chamber.....so very sad...and must NEVER be allowed to be repeated to any race of any people.

Regards

Answer 4

It was a Nazi extermination camp, slave camp and all around hell on earth.

look up world war two concentration camps.

Peace

Answer 5

it was a work camp, extermination cam, and concentration camp for the nazis