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What is the difference between concentration camps and labor camps?
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∙ 14y ago
A labor camp was basically a sort of special prison where inmates were forced to do hard labor.
"Concentration camp" is the larger umbrella term for all Nazi-run camps (the term actually predates Nazism). Subtypes of concentration camps include labor camps, transit camps (where inmates are collected and transferred elsewhere), prisoner of war camps (where captured enemy soldiers were kept) and extermination or death camps (where inmates were simply killed).
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 14y agoMost concentration camps were harsh forced labour and punishment camps, where prisoners were ill treated and inadequately fed. At some camps - the very harshest - prisoners were systematically worked to death. The extermination camps had a different purpose - to kill most new arrivals (usually by gassing) as soon as possible. Please see the related question.
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∙ 14y agoNazi concentration camps were run by the SS. There were also some labour camps run by other organizations, for example, by the German civilian authorities in some of the occupied countries.
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Which of the following describes a difference between concentration camps and extermination camps in nazi Germany's?
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
What was some of the labor in the concentration camps of the holocaust?
Here are few Labor Camps which the Nazis used during the Holocaust.Alderney Labor CampArbietsdorf Labor CampBuchenwald Labor CampDachau Labor CampFlossenburg Labor CampPlaszow Labor CampRavensbruck Labor CampSachsenhausen Labor CampPlease see related link for more Labor Camps including Concentration Camps and Extermination Camp.
What groups were sent to both Nazi concentration camps and soviet labor camps?
People with a Polish background were often sent to both Nazi concentration camps and Soviet labor camps. Both Germany and the Soviet Union wanted control of Poland.
Were all concentration camps killing centers?
No. Historians distiguish between #1 extermination campsand #2 ordinary concentration camps. The extermination camps were killing centres and served no other function and had very few survivors. Conditions at concentration camps varied and many inmates survived.Please see the related question.
Were both Hitler's labor camps and his concentration camps brutal?
Yes, conditions in both kinds of camps were generally appalling.
Which of the following describes a difference between concentration camps and extermination camps in nazi Germany's?
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
What kind of camps did Hitler?
labor and concentration camps
What was some of the labor in the concentration camps of the holocaust?
Here are few Labor Camps which the Nazis used during the Holocaust.Alderney Labor CampArbietsdorf Labor CampBuchenwald Labor CampDachau Labor CampFlossenburg Labor CampPlaszow Labor CampRavensbruck Labor CampSachsenhausen Labor CampPlease see related link for more Labor Camps including Concentration Camps and Extermination Camp.
What did the prisoners do in the concentration camps?
Hard physical labor.
What groups were sent to both Nazi concentration camps and soviet labor camps?
People with a Polish background were often sent to both Nazi concentration camps and Soviet labor camps. Both Germany and the Soviet Union wanted control of Poland.
Were all concentration camps killing centers?
No. Historians distiguish between #1 extermination campsand #2 ordinary concentration camps. The extermination camps were killing centres and served no other function and had very few survivors. Conditions at concentration camps varied and many inmates survived.Please see the related question.
Were both Hitler's labor camps and his concentration camps brutal?
Yes, conditions in both kinds of camps were generally appalling.
What does appelplatz mean?
Roll call area inside concentration, labor and death camps
What does blokova mean?
A prisoner in charge at the camps (concentration camps, death camps, forced labor camps) during the Holocaust. These people were typically non-Jewish (Jews were treated the worst in the camps).
What did the Nazi's do to the Jews between 1938-1945?
They sent the Jews to concentration camps. There were many of these camps. At certain camps, they just strictly killed them. At others, they forced them to do hard labor. Thousands died because of little food and water, they were put into gas chambers, they got very ill, or they were put to work to hard. These concentration camps were pure torture, and were horrible.
Is Mercedes Benz symbol related to concentration camps?
The company used worked labor and that was a crime.
Where did the prisoners from the holocaust die?
They died in the Nazi Concentration camps, death marches between camps or general didn't survive when escaped. Most deaths occurred at the Nazi Concentration camps. There are differnet kinds of camps:Concentration, Death, Extermination, Transition and Labor camps. Each kind of camps has got it's own purpose such as holding people or killing them in mass numbers.
