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  Sachsenhausen travel guide - Wikitravel
While originally primarily a detention and transit camp, SS policy being to perform mass executions out of view in the East, in 1942 a small gas chamber and crematorium were added to facilitate killing small groups.
After the camp's capture (and inclusion in the DDR), the Soviets immediately turned the tables and interned suspected Nazi functionaries in what now became Special Camp No. 7, killing another 12000 before the camp was closed in 1950.
Regulations for camp life were detailed and the tiniest violations brutally punished: SS guards were known to suffocate prisoners to death by inserting their heads into the foot washbasins or toilets.
wikitravel.org /en/Sachsenhausen   (1297 words)

  
  Concentration Camp - Search View - MSN Encarta
In addition to the central camps, the WVHA operated hundreds of subsidiary camps, and local offices of the security police in the occupied territories maintained large numbers of forced labor camps.
Five operated in camps established by regional SS and police leaders: Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka in eastern Poland; Kulmhof (Chelmno) in western Poland; and Semlin outside Belgrade, in Serbia.
In the 1950s the British established emergency detention camps in Kenya; in the 1960s the government of Indonesia placed opponents in island camps; and in the 1970s the military regime in Argentina operated secret detention camps.
encarta.msn.com /text_761577899__1/Concentration_Camp.html   (1019 words)

  
 Berga. Printable page | PBS
Not a camp per se, Auschwitz was actually a series of camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Monowitz).
Shortly after the Nazis came to power in 1933, as prisons were already overcrowded with political and ideological opponents of the regime, the Nazis began establishing a system of concentration camps for "enemies of the state." The first concentration camp, Dachau, opened in June of 1933 as a work camp.
The largest such camp was Belzec (later an extermination camp), where thousands of Jews constructed fortifications and anti-tank ditches along the new German-Soviet border in occupied Poland.
www.pbs.org /wnet/berga/print/beyond_civ_camp.html   (762 words)

  
 Gruber decision
Sachsenhausen was established in 1933, early in the Nazi regime, and had 13 to 20 satellite camps.
The protective detention camps assembled in accordance with the February 28, 1933 decree were not well organized and the treatment of the prisoners in the camp varied.
In the camp, the SS Guards were subdivided into 5 main departments that were combined in the Kommandantur: (1) adjutant; (2) administration for prisoners and units; (3) protective detention camp; (4) medical affairs; and (5) the political department.
cfserv.dickinson.edu /magazine/fall02/articles/gruber.html   (18437 words)

  
 Concentration Camps, Nuremberg Charges, 1946, Part 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Construction was commenced on the camp in 1938 and it was not until April 1940 that the first transport of prisoners was received.
Concentration camps were spoken of in whispers, and the whispers were spread by agents of the secret police.
Although this camp had in view the primary object of putting to work the mass slave labor, another of its primary objectives was the elimination of human lives by the methods employed in handling the prisoners.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/concamp2.htm   (2956 words)

  
 sachsenhausen concentration camp,auschwitz concentration camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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concentration-camp.thehotair.net /sachsenhausen-concentration-camp.html   (199 words)

  
 Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center
A concentration camp near Ravensbruck, a village on the Havel River two - thirds of a mile (1 km) from the Furstenberg railway station and 56 miles (90 km) north of Berlin.
The camp structure was similar to that of other Nazi concentration camps, with 150 female supervisors (SS - Aufseherinnen) added to the men who served as guards and held administrative posts.
In April 1941 a concentration camp for men was established near the Ravensbruck camp, but officially it was a satellite of the Sachsenhausen camp.
motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org /text/x28/xr2821.html   (699 words)

  
 Sachsenhausen concentration camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp in Germany, operating between 1936 and April 1945.
Sachsenhausen was not designed as a death camp—instead, the systematic mass murder of Jews was conducted primarily in camps to the east.
Russians were also sent to the camp, including Nazi collaborators and soldiers who contracted sexually transmitted diseases in Germany."[2] By the closing of the camp in the spring of 1950, at least 12,000 had died of malnutrition and disease.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sachsenhausen_(detention_camp)   (979 words)

  
 Life in the Dachau concentration camp - photo of first prisoners
The concentration camp prisoners were required to wear at least one piece of the blue and gray striped prison uniform.
The accommodations in the camps during those years were still normal because the mass influxes at the outbreak of the war and during the war had not yet taken place.
The Bielmeier family also had a French woman from the Dachau camp living with them; she was engaged to be married to an SS guard, but she was also taken away, never to be seen again.
www.scrapbookpages.com /dachauscrapbook/KZDachau/DachauLife.html   (3234 words)

  
 People in Auschwitz, by Hermann Langbein. Foreword.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This camp would eventually become the center of a system of camps, while its inmate population would be augmented with prisoners from all countries occupied by Germany.
The commandant of the main camp served as post senior, and various central offices, especially the Political Department and the post physician's administration, were still located in the main camp.
But because the extermination camps had been located in the East and liberated by the Soviets, the pictures seen in the West were primarily of the camps whose inmates were liberated by the Western Allies.
uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/langbein_people.html   (3421 words)

  
 Germany’s Guilty Secret: Beaten, Drugged, Skewered
In Germany, it is not a secret that Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald and the other Nazi camps were used for a short while by the Communists.
When he was taken to Sachsenhausen in June 1946, he was just 16: he had never been in the army, much less the SS, and was starting an apprenticeship as an engineer.
Sachsenhausen, Bautzen and the U-boat were the westernmost tip of the Gulag, the archipelago of repression which stretched from Berlin to Vladivostok.
www.paulbogdanor.com /eastgermanycamps2.html   (2517 words)

  
 Concentration Camps
Hitler argued that the camps were modeled on those used by the British during the Boer War.
After this date extermination camps were established in the east that had the capacity to kill large numbers including Belzec (15,000 a day), Sobibor (20,000), Treblinka (25,000) and Majdanek (25,000).
One woman, distraught to the point of madness, flung herself at a British soldier who was on guard at the camp on the night that it was reached by the 11th Armoured Division; she begged him to give her some milk for the tiny baby she held in her arms.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERconcentration.htm   (3273 words)

  
 concentration camps
The term "concentration camp" is used to refer to an installation where persons are incarcerated without regard to due process and the accepted norms of arrest and imprisonment.
By early 1934, many of these camps had been disbanded, and in April 1934, the remaining camps were put under the control of Heinrich Himmler.
After the Himmler takeover, smaller camps were disbanded and prisoners transferred to larger camps such as Dachau and newly established camps such as Sachsenhausen (1936), Buchenwald (1937), Neuengamme (1938), Flossenbuerg (1938), Mauthhausen (1938), and Ravensbrueck (1939).
www.edwardvictor.com /Holocaust/concentration_camps_main.htm   (646 words)

  
 Camps
The definition of a concentration camp is a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh condition and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment.
Unlike concentration camps, these camps were meant for used for death factories and not for detention or forced labor.
Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans, it consisted of a complex of camps: concentration, extermination and a forced-labor camp.
projects.pisd.edu /webmastering/pesh/holocaust/camps.html   (1014 words)

  
 Concentration Camp In Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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Zeven Germany November The Sachsenhausen concentration camp was the principal Nazi camp for the Berlin Overview of the camp with a few pictures.
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coloring.satvladnet.info /concentration-camp-in-germany.php   (743 words)

  
 Monument unveiled to Catholic priests killed in Nazi camps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Berlin - Catholic priests and monks, the bulk of them Polish, who were killed by the Nazis in a concentration camp near Berlin were commemorated Saturday with the unveiling of a stone sculpture in the presence of Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Poland.
The sculpture is engraved with the names of 96 clergy who died at Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the north-west outskirts of Berlin.
Historians working for the Catholic archdiocese of Berlin have so far documented the names of 711 Catholic clergy from Poland, Germany and other European nations who were incarcerated in the camp, where inmates often died of starvation or disease or were executed.
news.monstersandcritics.com /europe/printer_1218328.php   (277 words)

  
 HOLOCAUST GLOSSARY FOR THEMATIC APPROACH WORKSHOP
Established in 1940 as a concentration camp, it became an extermination camp in early 1942.
At first a labor camp for Poles and a POW camp for Russians, it was classified as a concentration camp for Jews in April 1943.
Established to exploit the nearby quarries, it was classified by the SS as a camp of utmost severity, and conditions were brutal, even by concentration camp standards.
www.iusb.edu /~shoah/shoahworkshop_handouts.htm   (3889 words)

  
 Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp and prison memorial 1933-1945
Between October 1944 and February 1945 the SS used one section of Fuhlsbüttel prison as a satellite camp of Neuengamme concentration camp.
Opened in 1987, the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp memorial is located in the twin-towered gatehouse at the prison’s former entrance.
In collaboration with Neuengamme concentration camp memorial, the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp memorial is maintained by the Association of formerly persecuted Social-Democrats and the Association of the Victims of Nazi Persecution/the Federation of Anti-Fascists.
fhh1.hamburg.de /Neuengamme/fuhlsbuettel.en.html   (645 words)

  
 Facts & Files Berlin:  Permanent Exhibition on the Soviet Special Camps from 1945 to 1950   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
'Special camp' number 7 was initially situated in Weesow near Werneuchen but was moved to the site of the former Nazi concentration camp in Sachsenhausen in August 1945.
Until its disbandment in March 1950, more than 60,000 people were detained there and at least 12,000 died because of disastrous detention conditions, disease, hunger, as well as physical and mental debilitation.
Facts & Files undertook the archive research on over 100 biographies of detainees as well as on photos and documents for a permanent exhibition about the Soviet special camp in Sachsenhausen.
www.factsandfiles.de /61.html?&L=1   (167 words)

  
 Research | Library | Web Links
Includes a history of the camp and a camp chronology, information about the museum and its permanent exhibition, a description of educational programs, resources, and events, and a list of camp publications.
Chronicles fifteen lesser-known camps located in the Emsland region that were designated by the Nazis as concentration camps, prison camps, military prisons, POW camps, and subcamps of Neuengamme.
Details the history of the camp from its beginnings as a refugee camp to its eventual use as a transit camp for Jews being deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz and other concentration camps.
www.ushmm.org /research/library/weblinks/index.php?content=camps   (2183 words)

  
 Berga. Berga and Beyond. Civilian Prisoners. The Civilian Camp System | PBS
The victim of an unidentified concentration camp in Yugoslavia.
Shortly after the Nazis came to power in 1933, they began establishing a system of concentration camps for "enemies of the state."
A pile of clothing that had been removed from prisoners before their execution.
www.pbs.org /wnet/berga/beyond/civ_camp.html   (806 words)

  
 The Camps
• Later, the camps in Poland were camps inside a camp.
• In Sachsenhausen had its first escape in 1942 (3), in 1944, 96 escaped, and in 1945, 339, but only 31 from the secure camp.
• The were the ultimate destination of all most all of the prisoners of the camps.
www.esuhistoryprof.com /the_camps.htm   (1441 words)

  
 Images for Reflection | Photography by Scott L. Sakansky ...
Although the Ministry of Justice declared these camps illegal and even punished some of its leaders, following the declaration of a state of emergency in 1933, there was little the Justice Officials could do.
Theodore Eicke became the head of Dachau in 1933 and inspector of all concentration camps in 1934.
The forced labor, placement of Jews in Ghettos, and imprisonment of Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies,and Communists in concentration camps cleared the path for the vicious, systematic murder of millions of people in the death camps.
www.imagesforreflection.com   (605 words)

  
 Webgids resultaten voor: Society : History : By Time Period : Twentieth Century : Holocaust : Camps : Sachsenhausen
Overview of the camp with a few pictures.
Contains images of letters sent by prisoners at Sachsenhausen and its subcamps.
De inhoud van de Internetgids is gebaseerd op Open Directory en is verbeterd met gebruik van Vindens technologie.
www.vinden.nl /g/?cat=/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century/Holocaust/Camps/Sachsenhausen/&ctt=Sachsenhausen   (66 words)

  
 Staff of Camps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
NOTE: Syrets or Syresz was the name of the camp established outside of Kiev near the site of Babi Yar after the Mass executions.
Kammler had previously headed the construction of camps and gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Maidenek, and Belzec.
Paul Sakowski, {former prisoner] crematorium foreman & camp hangman 1941- 1943.
www.shoaheducation.com /camps/staff.html   (1121 words)

  
 Sachsenhausen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg), a quarter of Oranienburg, Germany, and a detention facility established there in 1936.
Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt am Main), a quarter of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sachsenhausen   (89 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Canada initiated three new cases and Germany two.
In Canada, Vancouver resident Michael Seifert, who was convicted in absentia by an Italian court for murdering, torturing and raping prisoners at the Bolzano detention camp, faced loss of citizenship.
The Status Report found that Poland launched the largest number of new investigations (172), followed by Austria (60), the United States (40), Italy and Lithuania (18 each) and Latvia (16).
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=5714   (293 words)

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