Holocaust???

Question

Can someone please give me accurate and thorough information as to how the conditions were at concentration camps/Labor camps?

Answer 1

Concentration camps, which had housed political prisoners since 1933, became prison camps to where Jews were deported. At first, concentration-camp prisoners were put to work as slave laborers. Soon, however, the concentration camps became death camps. Hitler’s “Final Solution” declared that all Jews in Nazi territories would be put to death. Upon arrival, many Jews were selected for immediate execution. After being stripped and having their heads shaved, the victims were forced into gas chambers. Zyklon B, a poisonous gas, quickly suffocated the victims. This gas chamber was used at Majdanek.

Once the victims had been gassed, SS troops—or sometimes other prisoners—fed the bodies into ovens, or crematoria. In the crematoria, the bodies were burned into ash.

The SS believed that burning the bodies of victims in crematoria would leave less evidence of mass murder. But near the end of the war, Jews were being murdered so fast that the crematoria could not keep up. Bodies were often simply piled up high and burned.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Well, there were two types, Concentration Camps and Death Camps.

Concentration camps are where prisoners were first sent for processing and then shipped them out to other camps for slave labor or sent them on to death camps for so called FINAL processing.

Death camps is where the large scale human eradication occurred. Six such death camps existed: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka.

The death camps were all built in Poland so it is incorrect to say that the holocaust started in 1933 with Hitler's rise to power in Germany. Germany invaded Poland on Sept 1, 1939 and started WWII, after invading Russia in June of 1941, the German High command had a debate over the Jewish question and Hitler ordered the final solution to the undesirables(Jews, communists, gypsies, poles, gays, slavs, retarded people and the handicapped, etc) . Thus in late '41 and early '42, the death camps were created and began operation.

BTW, we KNOW this all to be true, not only because we have survivor testimony, but because we have documented film evidence of the conditions of these camps when then were liberated and finally because the germans kept meticulous records.

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Answer 3

Hard manual labour, reduced rations, beatings over minor issues, or just beatings for no reason. Fear of being shot, despair at dealing with the life of a condemned and beaten person. Horror as you watch what is happening to other people around you, and total helplessness as you realize you can do nothing about it.

All in all, not a pretty picture. I would imagine it wouldn't be that hard to find a book or two on the subject at your local library.

Answer 4

no one can give you a thorogh account, atleat unles they feel like typing a 1200 page novel. There where over 2 dozen concentration camps, over 10,000,000 people occupied them, of which it is estimated about 7,000,000 where killed by gas,starvation,medical testing,murder,punishment,torture etc. the treatment of inmates changed very often, and for each camp, gassing was with what was developed by the German Nazi scientist a product called "Zyclon B", and it was part of Hitlers "final solution" agenda to get ride of the Jews, packing hundred in boxcars, standing room only,with windows boarded up, a small hole with a locking view port was addes, a cylinder of zyclon B wa inserted, and in minutes all where dead, the cars where opened, the bodies where a cruesome twist of terror stricken faces on frozen dead bodies, these lifeless forms where removed often with pitchforks by other Jews forced to do thhis at gun point, those refused with instantly shot down, the bodies where dumped in shallow graves, and dosed with fuel and burned, that was one way of gassing, the other was to pretend they whereto shower, crowd them in, with dozens of shower heads above, all stripped naked, and packed in like sardines, then the doors locked and the gases turned on , same effect, and same results., bodies often where cremated in ovens, reduced to ashes, but as the war went on fuel was scarce and shallow burn pits where devised, 10,000s where killed daily at times, it rained human ash on the camps and near by villages., other basic themes where starvation rations you could not image people trying to live off, such as 1/8 cup of rice in water once a day, and maybe 4 oz of bread of one was lucky to even get that, in the end, the last several months, most where not feed at all, and left to fend for themselves. brutality and sytematic killing where rampant at times. so called medical testing was done which was nothing more than torture. I don't think I'm scratching the surface, for a basic look at the treatment at a work camp, which was not as bad as the concentration camps, but still horrible, by all means, see Schindler's list a movie mad about 12 yrs ago, it's a true story of one German who is a business man who only is a success from his helping Jews escape being sent to the concentration camps by working for him at his factories, the people still endured horrible things. Don't let modernist, political correct people sway you today that it did not happen, how dare they try and polish over the worst offense ever perpetrated on mankind, people try and say that 911 did not happen (actually several wacko web sites on this) and that the Holocaust never happened, say that to the 10,000s of survivors who where children back then and where there, and they saw there families destroyed. It was terrible event, and should not be forgotten or glossed over, it should remind the world not to let mad men or women go unchecked in there own country or other countries. nuff said

Answer 5

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