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The hierarchic structure of the concentration camps followed the model established in Dachau. The German staff was headed by the Lagerkommandant (camp commander) and a team of subordinates, comprised mostly of junior officers. One of them commanded the prisoners’ camp, usually after being specially trained for this duty
26 de ene. de 2015 · 24 Photos Of Life Inside Ravensbrück, The Nazis’ Only All-Female Concentration Camp. During the Holocaust, 130,000 female prisoners pass through the gates of Ravensbrück — most of whom never walked back out. Rescued women from Ravensbrück. Among the horrors of Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Mauthausen ...
Nazi ideology also targeted Roma (Gypsy) women, Polish women, and women with disabilities living in institutions. Certain individual camps and certain areas within concentration camps were designated specifically for female prisoners. In May 1939, the SS opened Ravensbrück, the largest Nazi
Richard Glücks, head of the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, sent Walter Eisfeld, former commandant of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, to inspect it. Around 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) long and 400 metres (1,300 ft) wide, [26] Auschwitz consisted at the time of 22 brick buildings, eight of them two-story.
A total of ten camps existed, set up in former Nazi concentration camps, former stalags, barracks, or prisons. NKVD special camp Nr. 1 in the former Stalag IV-B near Mühlberg; NKVD special camp Nr. 2 in Buchenwald; NKVD special camp Nr. 3 in Hohenschönhausen (later Stasi-Arbeitslager X) NKVD special camp Nr. 4 in Bautzen (since 1948 Nr. 3)
22 de oct. de 2018 · A total of 6 million lives were lost as a result of the Holocaust. Here, a pile of human bones and skulls is seen in 1944 at the Majdanek concentration camp in the outskirts of Lublin, Poland ...
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 ...
