The Nazis established many concentration camps, all over europe. Including: Auschwitz (Poland), Bergen-Belsen (Germany), Chelmno (poland), Dachau (Germany), Flossenburg (Germany), Gross Rosen (Poland),Janowska (Ukaraine), Kaiserwald (Latvia), Majdanek (Poland), Mauthausen (Austria), Mittelbau-Dora (Germany), Natzweiler-Struthof (France), Neuengamme (Germany), Plaszow (Germany), Ravensbruck (Germany), Sachsenhausen (Germany), Sobibor, (Poland), Theresientstand, (Czech Republic), Treblinka (Poland), and Westerbork (Netherlands). There were a lot of horrifying events and things the Nazis did to the Jews.
Dachau concentration camp was the first regular concentration camp established by the Socialists. It was for political prisoners. The first year, it held 4,800 prisoners, about. The camps later expanded to Jehovah’s Witness, Gypsies, and repeat criminal offenders. In 1937, they began expanding the camp, forcing the prisoners to do the work, under terrible conditions. It was completed in mid-August of 1938. It was mainly a training center for the SS gaurds. After Kristallnacht, 10,000 Jewish men were interned at Dachau. There were two areas, camp area, and crematoria area. There were 32 barracks. At this camp, german physicians performed medical experiments on the prisoners. April 29, 1945, the Americans liberated Dachau.
Auschwitz-Bikenau camp, was the largest Nazi concentration camp. It consisted of two other main subcamps. It had three main purposes, one was to imprison the enimies of the Nazi force, second to care for a supply of forced labor for the following: SS-owned companies, eliminate groups seen by nazis unfit for survival, jews, gypsies, and poles. There were also medical experiments done at this camp. Girls were tourtured and slaughtered for amusment. This was one of the most famous camps.
The Belzec Poland camp was the first extermination camp. It is to be that two people were to have survived. It was created to murder Polish Jews in teh German portions of Poland. There were two parts, a receiving center and the gas chambers. There were alot of Jews killed at this camp, almost 500,000. Unknown, is the number ot poles and gypsies. In the end, the Germans tried to burn most of the bodies to make it look like they were not hiding anything.
Bergen-Belsen Germany, was for captured prisoners of war. It was different from Auschwitz, but still horrifying. There were not tons of gas chambers, but most died from being shot, hung, starved, or disease. Anne Frank was stayed here, after coming from Auschwitz. She died before they were liberated, from typhus. The prisoners were segregated, they traded Jews for money, the Germans. Fela Warschau was liberated by the British. He said that that they got weaker every day, he could barley drag himself. He said to his sister: “I’m going into the barrack, and I’m going to lie down and just die in there. I do not want to die and people should just step over me like others do.” people followed, and they laid there. The sister came back and then said that the gates were open and we should run.
Chelmno Poland, was an extermination camp, that was to kill Jews of the Lodz, Poland ghetto. The manor camp and the forest camp were the two parts. The manor camps were used to unload the prisoners, undress them, and then force them back into the trucks, and then killed with carbon monoxide gas. After, they were buried in mass graves, or burned into open ovens. This happened at the forest camp. Overall, at least 152,000 people were killed.
Flossenburg was a camp that only a few jews were held prisoner. It had been a camp mostly for political prisoners, criminals, and “asocial” individuals. After August of 1944, Jews started to arrive, thousands of them. They worked mining granite, making armanents, and producing aircraft parts. This camp was different because prisoners incarcerated for crimanl activity achieved veteran status, it was only a few. The people in this camp were very harsh towards each others.
Gross-Rosen Poland, was first a subcamp for Sachsenhausen. It became independent in the year of 1941. People in the camp were directed to work in granite quarry, and as the camp grew, prisoners worked in subcamps. In the year of 1944, it had its largest population, which held 11% of the Nazi prisoners. The Soviets liberated this camp in the year of Febuary 1945.
Janowska, Ukraine, began as a factory. October of 1941, this became a camp. It occured when the SS established living quarters for forced laboroers nect to the armament plan. This camp was a forced labor camp and transit center. They transported Jews from the Lvov Ghetto to the extermination camps. The officials liked to kill and torture prisoners. They created an orchestra, that consisted of the Jewish prisoners. They made the Death Tango, that would be played during executions. The members were killed before liberation.
The Kaiserwald Concentation camp held Jewish prisoners, after the Latvian ghettos were liquidtied. The prisoners worked in factories, One factory used the femal prisoners to produce electrical goods. The Soviets liberated Kaiserwald in October of 1944. By then, all prisoners had been moved or killed.
Majdanek camp located in poland, was not supposed to be an extermination camp, but tens of thousands of jews were killed. This occured by gas chambers, shooting operations, disease, and starvation. 18,000 Jews within the Lublin camps were executed in a single day. This camp was liverated on July 24th, 1944 by the Soviets.110,000 died in the main camp, 70,000 Jews.
Prisoners worked to death at Mauthausen Concentration camp. This camp killed prisoners through hard labor and torture. It was a category three camp, prisoners sent there were to be exterminated through work. Prisoners were directed to work in granite quarries and build the camp, when it first opened. They would get killed by the SS if they fell behind.
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