Concentration CampsDeath Camps

Why were concentration camps established?• The Nazi party, under Adolf Hitler, expanded the

camps as designated areas where they could hold their prisoners to initially work and be out of the society.

• The Germans would have some of them work in factories, to support the war.

• They would also do medical tests on them by infecting them with diseases and by testing experimental medications.

• However, many were killed by different methods because the Nazis felt that they were weak.

What were the types of camps?• Concentration Camps• Camps that were developed only to hold and have people

work

• Death Camps• Camps that were specifically set up to kill people

What was the affect of the camps in WWII?• Because of the concentration camps, millions of

people were killed• Some people say that 9 million Jews lived in

Europe before the Holocaust, and approximately two-thirds of them were killed during this time.

The following figures from Lucy Dawidowicz show the annihilation of the Jewish population of Europe by (pre-war) country:[261]

Country

EstimatedPre-WarJewishpopulation

Estimatedkilled

Percentkilled

Poland 3,300,000 3,000,000 90

Baltic countries 253,000 228,000 90

Germany and Austria 240,000 210,000 90

Bohemia and Moravia 90,000 80,000 89

Slovakia 90,000 75,000 83

Greece 70,000 54,000 77

Netherlands 140,000 105,000 75

Hungary 650,000 450,000 70

Byelorussian SSR 375,000 245,000 65

Ukrainian SSR 1,500,000 900,000 60

Belgium 65,000 40,000 60

Yugoslavia 43,000 26,000 60

Romania 600,000 300,000 50

Norway 2,173 890 41

France 350,000 90,000 26

Bulgaria 64,000 14,000 22

Italy 40,000 8,000 20

Luxembourg 5,000 1,000 20

Russian SFSR 975,000 107,000 11

Denmark 8,000 52 <1

Total 8,861,800 5,933,900 67

About how many camps were there?• During the Holocaust, there were about 23 main

concentration camps producing about 900 sub camps.

• Some of the concentration camps were Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Treblinka.

• Today, researchers have found two-thousand concentration camps across Europe.

Where were concentration camps located?• Austria• Belgium• Czechoslovakia• Estonia• Finland• France• Germany• Italy• Holland• Latvia• Norway• Lithuania• Soviet Union• Poland• Yugoslavia

Another picture of where camps were located

How did the camps end?• After the fall of Hitler’s Nazi party, the Allied

Powers started to take a lead in WWII. The bombing of Hiroshima ended WWII. Then, the Allied Powers boldly stepped into concentration camps. They realized what Germany was doing and put an end to it by letting any soul who was not dead escape the camps.

The Concentration Camp Controversy• Today, some Germans boldly say that the Jewish

people were lying about the camps and that they were not real. However, Jewish and other researchers have multiple strong pieces of evidence that support the fact that they did exist. For example, Auschwitz has a wall of shoes and shirts around their camp from the people who perished on the soil. This is evidence that the camps existed and killed people.

Picture of Gas Canisters and Hair from one of the Death Camps

Bibliography• www.library.thinkquest.com• www.wikipedia.com