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  concentration campsE
It was not an extermination camp, it had no gaschambers and no experiments were done on the prisoners, but that was not nessesary: in Ebensee the prisoners were worked to death.
The camp had three commandants over the years, the last of them was Amon Leopold Göth who considered himself a cultivated man. In reality he was a sadist who was personally responsible for the death of several prisoners, He was arrested by the SS for having stolen the seized property of prisoner for himself.
Maly Trostenets is one of the least known nazi extermination camps, perhaps because it was situated in the former Soviet Union, 12 km.
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 The Holocaust - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Extermination in Jasenovac camp existed since its onset in 1941, at the time when Germans still didn't start their systematic genocide, and it has appalled even the SS, though soon enough they were organizing the systematic extermination in their camps too.
The largest death camp built was Auschwitz-Birkenau, which had both a labor camp (Auschwitz) and an extermination camp (Birkenau); the latter possessing four gas chambers and crematoria.
Upon arrival in these camps, prisoners were divided into two groups: those too weak for work were immediately executed in gas chambers (which were sometimes disguised as showers) and their bodies burned, while others were first used for slave labor in factories or industrial enterprises located in the camp or nearby.
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 The educational encyclopedia, world war II, history of the holocaust: concentration camps in Europ
Drancy concentation camp in France, the camp of Drancy was a transit camp located not far from Paris.
Koldychevo camp Koldychevo - Koldyczewo in Polish, first was used as a forced labor camp in Belorussia established by the Nazis late in 1941.
Uckermark concentration camp Uckermark was a concentration camp for girls mostly aged 16-21, although girls as young as 8 years old are known to have been imprisoned here.
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 Extermination camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The extermination camps were the facilities established by Nazi Germany in World War II initially for the killing of the handicapped, and the Jews of Europe as part of what was later deemed The Holocaust.
Extermination camps are distinguished from concentration camps (such as Dachau and Belsen), which were mostly intended as places of incarceration and forced labour for a variety of "enemies of the state" of the Nazi regime.
The distinction between extermination camps and concentration camps was recognized by the Germans themselves (although not expressed in the official nomenclature of the camps).
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 Facts about Holocaust
The Nazi goal was to exterminate 64 percent of all Jews in Europe.
Extermination camps were primarily located in Poland at Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek and Stutthof.
One extermination camp was in the Ukraine in Lwow.
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 Maly Trostenets extermination camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On June 28, 1944, as the Red Army approached the region, the Nazis bombed the camp in an attempt to obliterate evidence of its existence, in conformity with the aims of the so‑called Aktion 1005.
The original numbers may be attributable to death estimates for the region, as Belarus is regarded as having one of the highest casualty rates during the war.
A memorial has been built at the site of the camp, and attracts thousands of visitors annually, especially since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which has eased travel restrictions.
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 The Theresienstadt Ghetto
The most horrible aspect of this is that the Jewish "self-government" in the camp was initially in charge of selecting the people for the transports, although they did not know what their fate would be at that time.
There were rumors circulating in all of the major Nazi concentration camps toward the end of the war that Hitler had given the order for all the inmates to be killed before the arrival of the the Russians or the Americans.
At Auschwitz, the inmates were given the choice to stay in the camp, or to follow the Germans on a death march to the camps in the west before the Russian army arrived.
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Concentration camps for "undesirables" were spread throughout Europe, with new camps being created near centers of dense "undesirable" populations, often focusing on heavily Jewish, Polish intelligentsia, communists, or Roma groups.
Concentration camps for Jews and other, "undesirables," also existed in Germany itself, and while not specifically designed for systematic extermination, many concentration camp prisoners died because of harsh conditions or were executed.
Upon arrival in these camps, prisoners were divided into two groups: those too weak for work were immediately murdered in gas chambers (which were sometimes disguised as showers) and their bodies burned, while others were first used for slave labor in factories or industrial enterprises located in the camp or nearby.
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 The Holocaust information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Selection at the Auschwitz camp in 1944, where the Nazis chose whom to kill immediately and whom to use as slave labor or for medical experimentation.
The entrance to the main camp is in the background.
Klaus Barbie, "the Butcher of Lyon", captured and deported 44 Jewish children hidden in the village of Izieu, murdered Resistance leader Jean Moulin, and was in total responsible for the deportation of 7,500 people, 4,342 murders, and the arrest and torture of 14,311 resistance fighters were in some way attributed to his actions or commands.
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 History | Holology.com
Since Germany was an open country and since the extermination camps were a factor of wartime, the mass killings associated with Nazi Germany occurred during the war years of WWII, in this case the fall of 1939 until spring of 1945 or about five and a half years.
Since the Nazi extermination camps are in Poland, the first place to look for these massive quantities of human ash is, logically, at one of these camps: Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka, but more on that in a moment.
The “gas chambers” in the “extermination camps” were exactly what they looked like and were originally designed for: to fumigate and sterilize clothing and other articles to prevent the spread of insects and disease, always a problem in any cramped quarters but especially so in a concentration camp.
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Maly Trostenets is a name unknown in the West.
Maly Trostenets was a small village, the site of a collective farm, outside Minsk.
Here and in the four death camps set up by the Germans in eastern Poland, almost every deportee was murdered on reaching the camp: not only the young and the old, but the able-bodied as well.
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'''Maly Trostenets''' (Belarusian: &1052;&1072;&1083;&1099;&769; &1058;&1088;&1072;&1089;&1100;&1094;&1103;&1085;&1077;&769;&1094;; Russian: &1052;&1072;&769;&1083;&1099;&1081; &1058;&1088;&1086;&1089;&1090;&1077;&1085;&1077;&769;&1094;), a small village on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, was the site of a relatively less-well-known but highly efficient — and prolific — Nazi extermination camp.
No survivors of the camp are known to exist, and estimates of the number of people killed there range from 200,000 to more than half a million.
A memorial has been built at the site of the camp, and attracts thousands of visitors annually, especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has eased travel restrictions.
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 The Holocaust - Deistpedia, the Deist Encyclopedia
Rudolf Hoess, Auschwitz camp commandant, said that far from having to advertise their slave labour services, the concentration camps were actually approached by various large German businesses, some of which are still in existence.
In December, 1941, the Nazis opened Chelmno the first of what would soon be seven extermination camps, dedicated entirely to mass murder on an industrial scale, as opposed to the labor or concentration camps.
The method of killing at these camps was by poison gas, usually in "gas chambers", although many prisoners were killed in mass shootings and by other means.
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 The Jewish Agency for Israel Timeline
The plan envisions the concentration of the population in the Carmel range and its surroundings in northern Palestine, with the port of Haifa serving as a food and ammunition lifeline supported by the industrial infrastructure already in place.
Construction of an extermination camp at a wooded area near Sobibor begins.
May: A slave labor camp is established at Monowitz, where I. Farben has synthetic rubber and oil plants, and is called Auschwitz III.
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 Holocaust : search word
Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust]] The Holocaust refers to Nazi Germany's systematic genocide of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II starting in 1941 and continuing through to 1945.
Mass grave at Bergen Belsen concentration camp 1945 Concentration camps for "undesirables" were spread throughout Europe, with new camps being created near centers of dense "undesirable" populations, often focusing on heavily Jewish, Polish intelligentsia, communists, or Roma groups.
Four camps — Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibór, and Treblinka II — were used exclusively for extermination.
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 Holocaust : Essential Historical Information, explanation, recent texts, monographs, and relevant links.
Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The word Holocaust (Greek for "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering") was introduced in the late 20th century to refer to the attempt of Nazi-ruled Germany to exterminate those groups of people it found "undesirable".
Concentration and extermination camps Mass grave at Bergen Belsen concentration camp 1945 Concentration camps for "undesirables" were spread throughout Europe, with new camps being created near centers of dense "undesirable" populations, often focusing on heavily Jewish, Polish intelligentsia, communists, or Roma groups.
Slavs Poles were one of the first targets of extermination by Hitler, as outlined in the speech he gave the Wehrmacht commanders before the invasion of Poland in 1939.
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 Holocaust Resource Page - holocast
Conditions for gay men in the camps were especially difficult, as they were reviled not only by the German soldiers but also by the other prisoners, and many gay men were beaten to death.
The largest facility was Auschwitz-Birkenau, which had both a labor camp (Auschwitz) and an extermination camp (Birkenau); the latter possessing four gas chambers and crematoria.
This camp was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1,000,000 Jews, 75,000 Poles and gay men, and some 19,000 Roma, for an approximate total of 1,094,000 deaths.
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 US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : History of the Jews in Belarus
By the end of 1941 there were more than 50,000 troops devoted to rounding up and killing Jews.
The gradual industrialization of killing led to adoption of the Final Solution and the establishment of the Operation Reinhard extermination camps: the machinery of the Holocaust.
Other ethnic groups were targeted for extermination, including the Roma and Sinti; see Porajmos.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Maly Trostenets extermination camp
On June 28, 1944, as the Red Army approached the region, the Nazis bombed the camp in an attempt to obliterate evidence of its existence, in conformity with the aims of the so‑called Aktion 1005.
But the Soviets are said to have discovered 34 grave‑pits, some (not all) measuring as much as 50 meters in length and 3 to 4 meters in depth, located in the Blagovshchina Forest some 500 meters from the Minsk–Mogilev highway, at about the 11
61–74 [cites the statistic that, in all, 206,500 people were murdered at Trostenets, of whom 150,000 were killed at the Blagovshchina Forest between September 1941 and October 1943, and another 50,000 at the Shashkovka Forest between October 1943 and June 1944].
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 Time for a Quiz. [Archive] - World War II Zone Forums
A camp was specially errected for one purpose only.
Starvation, diseases, lack of decent clothing were not for all either in camps or ghettos.
It is hard to believe and paradoxical that always some elite existed which ate better even then SS guarding the camp or running ghetto.
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 Holocaust victims - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This was followed by the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 that prevented marriage between any Jew and non-Jew, and stripped all Jews of German citizenships (their official title became "subject of the state") and of their basic civil rights, e.g., to vote.
Some estimate that as many as one quarter of all Soviet civilian deaths at the hands of the Nazis and their allies were racially motivated, or 5 million Russian deaths, 3 million Ukrainian deaths and 1.5 million Belarusian deaths.
Around 2,500-5,000 Jehovah's Witnesses perished in concentration camps, where they were held for political and ideological reasons.
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 Holocaust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He becomes responsible for the persecution and plundering of the Polish population and the extermination of the Jews.
Almost all the Jews at the Buchenwald concentration camp, many of whom had recently arrived from other camps, are marched out to the concentration camp at Flossenberg, leaving the non-Jewish prisoners to await the arrival of U.S. troops.
The Nordhausen labor camp is liberated by the U.S. army.
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 extermination - OneLook Dictionary Search
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Phrases that include extermination: chełmno extermination camp, extermination camp, extermination camps, maly trostenets extermination camp, nazi extermination camp, more...
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 Holocaust - Gurupedia
trade unionists, psychiatric patients, and common criminals all perished alongside one another in the camps, according to the extensive documentation left behind by the Nazis themselves (written and photographed), eye-witness testimony (by survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders), and the statistical records of the various countries under occupation.
Treblinka II — were used exclusively for extermination.
Waffen SS), or were shipped to extermination camps for execution simply because they were of Slavic extraction.
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 1942
When the vans reach the camp, all inside them are dead.
At the camp, the slave labourers bury the bodies in deep pits.
All the men were shot and women sent to concentration camps.
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 Time for a Quiz. - World War II Zone Forums
I like to ask this question whenever I discuss WW2 with anyone.So here is a little quiz.Yes it requires some detective work.
Well guys and gals,the nature of my job has me away for days and weeks on end.I am able to look at the site but unable to post sometimes......it depends on where I am.
As you may have noticed I am not an expert on that subject.
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 The Skeptics Society Forum :: View topic - Dictionary of Holocaust Deniers' Fallacies
Deniers argue that because experiment of mass extermination cannot be repeated, therefore it remains unproven.
Hospitals, healthcare, inmate amenites for labour force say nada about simultaneous extermination.
The Soviets claimed that Majdanek was a huge extermination factory for Poles and Russians.
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