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Generally speaking, a concentration camp is a place where people are concentrated and imprisoned without trial. Inmates are usually exploited for their labour and kept under harsh conditions, though this is not always the case. In Nazi Germany after 1933, and across Nazi controlled Europe between 1938 and 1945, concentration camps became a ...
The years 1939–1942 saw a marked expansion in the concentration camp system. In 1938, SS authorities had begun to exploit the labor of concentration camp prisoners for economic profit. In September 1939, the war provided a convenient excuse to ban releases from the camps, thus providing the SS with a readily available labor force.
English. Nazi Camp System The Nazi camp system began as a system of repression directed against political opponents of the Nazi state. In the early years of the Third Reich, the Nazis imprisoned primarily Communists and Socialists. In about 1935, the regime also began to imprison those whom it designated as racially or biologically inferior ...
Identifying Prisoners: The Marking System. From 1938, Jews in the camps were identified by a yellow star sewn onto their prison uniforms, a perversion of the Jewish Star of David symbol. After 1939 and with some variation from camp to camp, the categories of prisoners were easily identified by a marking system combining a colored inverted ...
16 de mar. de 2015 · Like some concentration camps, Auschwitz I had a gas chamber and crematorium. Initially, SS engineers constructed an improvised gas chamber in the basement of the prison block, Block 11. Later a larger, permanent gas chamber was constructed as part of the original crematorium in a separate building outside the prisoner compound.
The Operation Reinhard camps were dismantled by the Nazis after killing operations ended and, in the cases of Treblinka and Sobibor, after prisoner uprisings. The sites were ploughed over and planted with trees, and Polish farmers installed in cottages. The Polish government erected a memorial at Treblinka in 1958: 17,000 stones commemorate ...
Liberation. In 1944–1945, the Allied armies liberated the concentration camps. Tragically, deaths in the camps continued for several weeks after liberation. Some prisoners had already become too weak to survive. According to SS reports, there were more than 700,000 prisoners left in the camps in January 1945.
