German concentration Camps
Types Of Concentration camps
A gas chamber used to exterminate the Jews.
There are many types of concentration camps. There are Extermination Camps, Labor camps, and POW camps. Hitler during the Holocaust created concentration camps to exterminate as many Jews as possible. The first concentration camps to be created were in 1933 after Hitler became chancellor. POW camps are just extra camps then the Jews are shipped off to a Labor camp or to a Extermination camp. About two thirds of all the Jews in Europe were killed. Between 1933 and 1945, during WW2, there were six million Jews were killed!
How The Jews Where Treated
The Jews were not really treated well. In labor camps if they refused to work they were tortured or killed. The prisoners were used as slaves in the Labor camps. They were forced to work, not fed enough, no beds, no chairs, no nothing. In extermination camps they were all treated about the same way as labor camps but they were not forced to work. Extermination camps used gas chambers to exterminate the Jews. The Jews had colored badges for categorization, Green Triangles for common criminal prisoners, Purple Triangles for Jehovah's Witnesses, Black Triangles for Gypsies, Yellow Triangles for Jews, Red Triangles for Communist and other prisoners.
Why Did Hitler Do It?
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Hitler wanted a perfect race and to rule to world. He tried to exterminate all the Jews in the Germany and Europe. Hitler failed at killing them all but he killed millions of Jews in Europe and Germany using the extermination camps he created specifically for that purpose. Hitler lost the war in 1945 after he committed suicide in his underground bunker and then the war was over.
Where Were The Camps Located? What Are Some Camp Names?
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Where were the camps at? Well they built them mainly in Poland and Germany and some around the outside boarder of Poland. All the concentration camps listed on this map (there were hundreds) Death Camps Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek, Auschwitz Birkrnau, and Belzec Concentration camps, Stutthof, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Gross Resen, THeresienstadt, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Bergen Belson, Buchenwald, Flossenburg, Natzwelier, Dacau, and Vught.
When?
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When did Hitler become chancellor for Germany? He was elected chancellor in 1933 to 1945. When did the Holocaust start? It started immediatley after Hitler became chancellor in Germany on January 30, 1933. When did the Holocaust end? The Holocaust ended on May 8, 1945 when Hitler decided to commit suicide when he was being bombed by Allied Forces. He almost won the war in his underground bunker during World War II.
