How were WWII concentration camps named?

Question

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and so many more... How were they named? I assume Sobibor was named for the town it was nearby, but is it the same for the others?
Thanks for all help.

Answer 1

~Of all the meaningful and relevant questions there are that you could have asked about the camps, how and why did you come up with this inanity? Look at a map of the camps and where they were constructed. Nuff said?

Answer 2

Wow... map challenged.

I am amazed that so many people have so little effort expended to find their answers. Google, Wikipedia, and Yahoo have a lot of answers by using the Search box.

When someone asks about how a place is named that just so happens to be next to or in a city of the same name.... well, you just have to assume they have trouble with the QWERTY keyboard.

Sorry.... but this is such a simple answer that I am struggling to just say... they are named by their city that they are located.

It is like asking, what state do you think Kentucky Fried Chicken started? If you retired to Florida, what state would you be living? What city is Las Vegas located?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Ummmmmmmmm you recieved a couple of nasty and sarcastic answers....

can't people be a little understanding and just answer without the snide attitude. you asked a civil question, to many the answer MAY have been obvious BUT you deserved a civil answer.

as the others have answered, these camps were so named after the towns that were nearby or where they were actually located in.
they were probably nice little towns at one point and now are forever tainted by the memory of what took place there.

EDIT: and Jonathon D makes a GOOD point too :)

Answer 5

Something that's worth noting is that the names they are known by now were often the German versions of their names rather than what the locals would have called the place. Auschwitz, for example, was known as Oswiecim in Polish.

Answer 6

The Germans can be a dull unimaginitive people. There was no policy for naming the camps and so by default they were named for the nearest town or railroad siding.

Here is a link with every camp imaginable - - -

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html

Peace

Answer 7

The names we know them by are from town nearby. Each one also had an identification number assigned by the people in charge which depended on who was running them when.

Answer 8

yes, by the town names