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Concentration Camps, 1942–45 ... A Romani (Gypsy) victim of Nazi medical experiments to make seawater safe to drink. Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 1944.
By 1939, six large concentration camps had been established. Besides Dachau, they were Sachsenhausen (1936), Buchenwald (1937), Flossenbürg (1938), Mauthausen (1938), and to house women prisoners, Ravensbrück (1939). Nazi persecution of political opponents exacted a terrible price in human suffering. Between 1933 and 1939, the criminal courts ...
15 de nov. de 2015 · This is the official documentary report of Nazi war crimes that was used as trial evidence. ... Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps. 2015-11-15T16:01:09-05:00 https: ...
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The early camps. This is a page torn from the prisoner book at Esterwegen by a Polish soldier following the camp’s liberation in 1945. Prisoner books listed the prisoners kept at the camp, as well as other biographical details. Esterwegen was one of the earliest concentration camps to be established under Nazi rule and was opened in August 1933.
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.
In January 1945, the Third Reich stood on the verge of military defeat. As Allied forces approached Nazi camps, the SS organized death marches of concentration camp inmates, in part to keep large numbers of concentration camp prisoners from falling into Allied hands. The term "death march" was probably coined by concentration camp prisoners.
Dachau, Germany, ca. 1938 – 1942. Beginning in 1937–1938, the SS created a system of marking prisoners in concentration camps. Sewn onto uniforms, the color-coded badges identified the reason for an individual’s incarceration, with some variation among camps. The Nazis used this chart illustrating prisoner markings in the Dachau ...
