Is there a difference between the Concentration(Internment) and Extermination Camps during Holocaust Germany?
Please give an explanation.
2007-10-21 07:41:16 · 8 answers · asked by Emo-Elmo 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
ok i learned bout this is 6th grade (last year) extermination is quite like its name it was a killing camp they would go there and then be killed :( concentration camps were like labor camps they would labor them till they died hope it helped!!
2007-10-21 07:44:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Concentration camps were meant to jail "enemies of the Nazi state". Mainly located in Germany and Austria, there many types of immates in concentration camps: Jews, communists, gypsies, people who opposed the Nazi regime. Members of the various resistance groups, in Germany and in the occupied countries, were also sent to concentration camps. Dachua was the first concentration camp and was used to imprision political opponents of the Nazis and many SA members after that organization was purged from the party.
Internment camps should not be confused with concentration camps; internment is meant to house citizens of nations that the country is at war with. This would include Americans trapped in Germany and the occupied areas after Hitler declared war on the United States.
The death camps, set up in occupied Poland, were meant to kill off the Jewish population of Europe, Hitler's "Final Solution." There were six death camps set up in Poland.
2007-10-21 11:41:42 · answer #2 · answered by wichitaor1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Internment camps,( of which the United States had some also) were for holding prisoners, ie., undesirable people and families and make them work for the government's benefit. Extermination Camps were just that, places where they sent Jews, minorities, mentally ill, gay people and gypsies to destroy them. I find the part about gay people ironic because Hitler was as gay as New Years Eve.
2007-10-21 07:50:07 · answer #3 · answered by darkdiva 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there is not a difference. They were both used to kill Innocent people and to abuse people that did nothing to deserve this horrible treatment. I think that these camps were made because Hitler was scared of people that were different from him. Hitler is a big hypocrite because he didn't even have blond hair or blue eyes. He just felt threatened and was a control freak so he decided to eliminate the so called threat. I'm sorry that I got so carried away but I feel so strongly on this subject. I hope I answered this question for you.
2007-10-21 08:34:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were pretty much the same. The Concentrations camps started out as labor camps but had in the early 1940s gas chambers installed to kill the people.
Here are a few:
Extermination Camps:
Kulmhof, i.e. Chelmno
Belzec
Sobibor
Treblinka
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Concentrations camps:
Mauthausen
Neuengamme
Sachsenhausen
Natzweiler
Stutthof
Dachau
Ravensbruck
2007-10-21 07:55:27 · answer #5 · answered by Llani 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the concentration camps, people would die slowly and in agony due to starvation, hard labor, and beatings. They were forced to do useless work without reprieve. In extermination camps, the people were exterminated soon after arriving in the camp. Through gas chambers, crematoriums and revolting medical experiments.
2007-10-21 07:46:36 · answer #6 · answered by witchgurl2684 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are over 800 'detainee' camps in the States and as stated in F E MA doctrine they have option to be used for other things than refuge.
2007-10-21 08:03:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
people stayed in concentration camps a little longer
2007-10-21 07:44:17 · answer #8 · answered by maiya 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋