holocaust camps?

Question

what is the difference between the concentration camps and the labor camps? also, in the death camps, were you just sent to death immediatley [gasing, shooting, any more?] or what? finally, what were extermination camps? thanks.

also, what are some of the jobs that the people in the labor camps had?

Answer 1

1. POW camps (and even these were divided between Western Allied and Eastern prisoners of war)
2. Labor Camps-usually near war factories
3. Extermination Camps= death camps: although the so-called death camps used slave labor, their main purpose was high-volume extermination via gassing. The shootings were inefficient for high-volume, although they were used especially in the beginning. The Auwswitz-Berkinau complex topped out at around 26,000 deaths per day during the Summer of 1944, with the reputable IG Farbin pharmaceutical conglomerate delivering 4-1/2 tons of Zyclon-B per month to the SS. During that summer, Jews were marched directly onto the train platform and divided on the spot of who would go straight to the gas chambers and who would be kept alive as slave labor.

Answer 2

A list of references:
Albert Spear's "Inside the Third" Primary Source-A good source he set up the labor camps (Armaments Minister) and he was repented and turned against Hitler before the war came to an end.
"Night" by Ellie Weisel is another Primary Source from the inside of the camp, he is a Jew and his father was killed in the camp. The book takes the reader thought several camps as he is transferred to the west as the Red Army closes in.
The 2 above books I have given you because they are pretty reliable and they are "Primary Sources" 1st hand accounts given by those persons involved in the actual events and not just second hand historians.
William L. Shire's "The Rise and fall of the Third Reich" is a good secondary source which contains the authors own personal primary source accounts. Shira was an American Journalist stationed in Germany and Austria during the period of Nazi Suzerainty. This book will get into accounts of the camps. Most of the Holocaust survivor accounts that I have read are not very helpful in the since that they do not give much info on the higher-archy of the camps and the like.
P.S. Once you have read a little about the Nazi regime you will find that both the Nazi Party, from Rom the leader of the SA (Brown Shirts) to lowliest camp superintendents, packed with Homosexual leadership which used their position to prostitute young boys (Jews and non-Jews alike.) out to their sodamite friends. In fact Rom was found with two naked boys (under12 years old) the "night of the long Knifes" when Hitler had Rom and the SA liquidated to appease the German High Command which didn't a second army running around. I say this because I am quite frankly sick of the "Gay-Rights" people portraying the "Homosexual" as another one of Hitler’s "victims" when in-fact they were a large % of the SA which went around beating up Jews and vandalizing their homes and businesses. In short the fags were in bed with Hitler.-Pun intended!

Answer 3

Originally, concentration camps were just that - prison camps where a particular category of prisoner was 'concentrated'. Dachau, opened in 1933, near Munich, was the first such camp built under the Nazi regime and was initially used to house political prisoners opposed to Hitler. Dachau became the prototype for the other concentration camps which followed.
Labour camps (such as Auschwitz Camp 1 in Poland and Mauthausen, near Linz in Austria) were where prisoners were used for work - often until they died from ill-treatment, poor nourishment, living conditions or from sheer exhaustion.
Death or extermination camps (such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, close to Auschwitz 1 labour camp, Sobibor & Treblinka) where were prisoners were deliberately killed. Such camps were used to house Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and the physically and mentally handicapped. Not all occupants were killed on arrival. Children under 14 and men and women considered too old or unhealthy to be considered of use were killed shortly after arrival. The remainder were put to work until chosen for execution at a later date, either because they had become unable to work or to make room for a new batch of prisoners.
Other camps were transportation/transit camps (such as Westerbork in Holland and Theresienstadt in Bohemia). In these, where conditions were at least, usually, tolerable, prisoners were put to work until they were sent to the labour or death camps in the east, though in Theresienstadt (now Terezin, in the Czech Republic) many inhabitants died from disease towards the end of the war, when conditions deteriorated badly and food and medicines were in very short supply.

Answer 4

Labor camps typically had the people within them work to help build/create more supplies for the German armies. They built whatever the German's needed or ordered them to do. This led to death because of malnutrition and the large number of illnesses that spread.

Concentration camps housed the Jewish, gypsies, homosexuals, and other minorities, they worked which in many cases consisted of sorting the clothes of the already dead, cleaning, and doing other degrading jobs. In most cases they also died from disease or illness, malnutrition, or they were killed.

Death camps torched the people and left them to die basically.

Extermination camps in most cases were strictly for the automatic killing of all the people that arrived there. They killed them in series of people, telling them to either take a shower (which sent them to the gas chambers) or to go line up outside for some duty (in which case they were shot), they were killed in other various forms though too.

Answer 5

You may wish to check out the Yahoo! group Remember-The _Holocaust which has a long list of sites dealing with your question. Also the Yahoo! group is most informative educational and even instructive. it is probably the only group in Yahoo! dealing extensively with genocide, hukman rights, tolerance, using the history of the Holocaust as a means to promote tolerance education. Members are from around the world. +

Answer 6

The library has a lot of resources to help you investigate your report.. Read The Diary Of Ann Frank, as one of your books, and then do a book search concerning WWII and the Final Solution, and Hitler.