Concentration Camps In World War Two

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Concentration Camps In World War Two
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• By Rebecca Smith
• History 11-B Block
• May 31, 2005

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Outline

• Significance
• Conditions
• Types of camps
• Auschwitz

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Introduction to Concentration Camps

• Started for political enemies
• Many people, not just Jews placed in camps
• Name loosely used

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Significance of Concentration Camps

• Genocide/War crimes
• Horrible conditions

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Conditions in a Concentration Camp

• prisoners overworked, starved, beaten, kept
  dirty, and periodically asstripped
• ridden with lice and disease, overcrowded

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Types Of Concentration Camps

• Prison camps
• Extermination camps
• Labor camps

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Prison Camps

• Prisoners sent here while waiting to be sent to
  another camp

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Some Prison Camps

• Bergen-Belsen
• Bredtvet
• Breendonk
• Falstad
• Grini
• Herzogenbusch
• Niederhagen
• Oranienburg
• Osthofen
• Theresienstadt 
• Westerbork

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Labor Camps

• To make up for labor lost due to war
• Work at a pace unhealthy for a healthy person

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Labor Camps Cont.

• Over 7 000 000 people placed in labor camps
• Children killed, they couldnt
• perform hard labor

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Some Labour Camps

• Arbeitsdorf
• Auschwitz
• Breendonk
• Buchenwald
• Dachau
• Flossenbürg
• Gross-Rosen
• Kaufering/Landsberg
• Lwów
• Mauthausen-Gusen
• Mittlebau-Dora

• Neuengamme
• Niederhagen
• Natzweiler-Struthof
• Kraków-Plaszów
• Ravensbrück
• Riga-Kaiserwald
• Sachsenhausen
• Stuttof
• Lager Sylt
• Warsaw

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Prisoners Badges Worn in Dachau Concentration
Camp
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Extermination Camps

• Most camps, prisoners were to be killed within
  24 hours
• Used more frequently later in the war
• Most famous, Auschwitz

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Auschwitz

• Three parts (Auschwitz I, Auschwitz
  II-Birkenau,
• Auschwitz III-Monowitz)
• over 40 sub-camps
• 70-80 people at Auschwitz died

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Auschwitz Cont.

• Medical experiments were done by
• Nazi SS doctors
• Phenol injections
  10-15 ml.
  into the heart death within fifteen seconds
  total of 2 minutes, 22 seconds
  to kill one prisoner

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Virtual Tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Some Extermination Camps

• Auschwitz (I, II, III)
• Belzec
• Chelmno
• Lwów
• Majdanek
• Maly Trostenets
• Sobibór
• Treblinka
• Warsaw

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Timeline
March 22, 1933

first concentration camp established June 1940

first
prisoners are sent to Auschwitz September 3, 1941

first gassings
done December 7-8, 1941

mass killings started
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Timeline Cont.
December 1942

Belzec ends its mass killings July 1944

concentration
camps begin to be evacuated May 8, 1945

last camp is
liberated
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Bibliography Cont.

• Timeline of the Holocaust Concentration
  Camps.lthttp//www.geocities.com/chrysthaler/Timel
  ineConCamps.htmlgt.
• Virtual Tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau.althttp//www.r
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