During the holocaust, were there visitors from outside the camps?

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Answer 1

Yes indeed.

In fact, there one one camp, Thersienstadt that was specifically designed to be a "model" camp for visitors.

"During World War II, the Nazis built it as a concentration camp. Thersienstadt was meant to be a model camp which could be visited by the Red Cross, and foreign delegations. There were the concerts, the theatre, lectures and stores. But behind this front, as reported by a survivor, there was the misery, the dirt, the unbearable vermin. There was starvation and dysentery, and meningitis and cases of infantile paralysis. There was the constant fear of being sent out to Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. The misery among the elderly was beyond description as they walked from room to room begging for a piece of bread."

http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=1117

"Theresienstadt was also ready for inspections by the Red Cross. The Nazis wanted to suppress the information that was leaking out about what they were doing to the Jews. They made it so that if the Red Cross came to check on them it looked humane. However, this was not the case..."

http://redoble07.tripod.com/id11.html

Answer 2

Yes there were visitors, other Nazis.

This is based on access granted to The Associated Press to the largest archive of Nazi concentration camp records, which has been closed for 50 years.

One directive seen by the AP, from November 1943 and marked Private and Confidential, instructed all camp commanders to keep visitors away from sensitive sites.

“During visits to the concentration camps, the bordellos and the crematoria are not to be shown. Visitors also are not to be told anything about these facilities,” said the order, signed by the divisional commander of the SS, the elite unit that guarded the camps.
There were 500 brothels, where foreign women were put at the disposal of German officers, and more than 100 “child care facilities” where women in labor camps were forced to undergo abortions or had their newborns taken away and killed – usually by starvation – so the mothers could quickly return to work.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

What exactly do you mean by visitors? Like family? No. But did the camps have visitors, yes they did. Things like other countries or other officials coming in to see if the camps were really "bad" and the government usually sent them to the good camps which looked nice, etc. to throw people off on what the government was ACTUALLY doing to people in the REAL camps. So yes, they did have visitors. But these visitors usually visited the "make believe" camps.

But they did have other officials or allies visiting the camps, but I'm not sure if that is what you are asking?

Answer 5

Red Cross delegations, but only in the late stage of the war :

On June 23, 1944, the Nazis permitted the visit of Theresienstadt by the Red Cross in order to dispel rumours about the exterminations camps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp_Theresienstadt#Used_as_propaganda_tool

On April 27, 1945, Victor Mauer, delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross, was allowed to enter the Dachau camps and distribute food.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp#Organization

"On March 12, 1945, ICRC president Jacob Burckhardt received a message from SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner accepting the ICRC's demand to allow delegates to visit the concentration camps. This agreement was bound by the condition that these delegates would have to stay in the camps until the end of the war. Ten delegates, among them Louis Haefliger (Camp Mauthausen), Paul Dunant (Camp Theresienstadt) and Victor Maurer (Camp Dachau), accepted the assignment and visited the camps. Louis Haefliger prevented the forceful eviction or blasting of Mauthausen-Gusen by alerting American troops, thereby saving the lives of about 60,000 inmates."

"The ICRC and World War Two" in "International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement", Wikipedia :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cross#The_ICRC_and_World_War_Two

Answer 6

Yes, Himmler visited one of the camps and fainted. Other high ranking Nazi officers also visited the camps with spouses, mistresses and staff.

By 1944, with the concentration camps fully integrated with the Waffen-SS and under the control of the WVHA, a standard practice developed to rotate SS members in and out of the camps, based on manpower needs and also to give assignments to wounded Waffen-SS officers and soldiers who could no longer serve in front-line combat duties. This rotation of personnel is the main argument that nearly the entire SS knew of the concentration camps, and what actions were committed within, making the entire organization liable for war crimes and crimes against humanity. (as people on temporary duties, they might qualify as visitors)

SS doctors reached their height with human medical experiments, the most notorious of which occurred at Dachau concentration camp and Auschwitz. Such experiments ranged from vivisections, sterilization experiments, infectious disease research, freezing experiments, as well as many other excruciating medical procedures often performed without anesthetic. This period of time also saw the work of one of the most notorious SS doctors in history, Doctor Joseph Mengele, who served as Head Medical Officer of Auschwitz and was responsible for daily gas chamber selections as well as brutal experiments on human twins. (again, since they wouldn't necessarily be considered permanent staff, they might qualify)

If you mean foreign visitors, the answer is no, unless you consider the Allied forces who liberated the camps.

Answer 7

There were no visitors. The camps were closed to the world.

Answer 8

visiting Nazi yes people visiting their families in the camps no

Answer 9

Which holocaust?