Just before the end of the second world war the Nazis tried to burn down the concentration camps so that there would be no evidence of what they did. This was not done very successfully as you can still go and visit some of the concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
Hitler never visited Auschwitz, nor any other death camps (not to be confused with concentration camps). This forms part of the argument that Hitler was not to blame for the Holocaust as he never directly ordered extermination. +++ A desperate argument because he knew perfectly well the purpose of the concentration and extermination camps as they were part of his own policy. That heading photo is of a pair of cremators in one of the camps.
The IRC's first and only visit to the concentration camps during WW-II was made on 23 July 1944. This was to Theresienstadt, the model ghetto that was established for just such a purpose. Germany only allowed this visit nine months after the IRC had requested it and that gave them plenty of time to stage the show. The IRC issued a "favorable" report on this visit, and though it was protested, it stood. No follow up was made and the vast majority of these prisoners were transported to Auschwitz. _____ That was a visit by the Danish Red Cross, not the IRC. At the time Denmark was under Nazi occupation ...
The following have museums: * Auschwitz (Oswiemcim, near Krakow, Poland) * Majdanek (in Lublin, Poland) * Dachau (near Munich, Germany) * Buchenwald (near Weimar, Germany) There are various monuments and memorials on the sites of many other camps, including: * Treblinka (Poland) * Belzec (Poland) * Bergen-Belsen (Germany) The lists are not complete.
People in Germany and abroad knew about the ordinary concentration camps. The first extermination camp liberated was Majdanek (in a suburb of Lublin, Poland), which was liberated by the Soviet Army in July, 1944. They invited journalists from Allied countries to visit it and report on what they found. Auschwitz was liberated on 27 January 1945.
Yes. There are several preserved that one can still visit. Concentration camps like those from the Holocaust have been used in other places and times, too. They were more recently used in Bosnia and tens of thousands died.
Just before the end of the second world war the Nazis tried to burn down the concentration camps so that there would be no evidence of what they did. This was not done very successfully as you can still go and visit some of the concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
The most famous concentration camp Auschwitz, was located in Poland. There were also famous concentration camps in Germany, France, Denmark and The Netherlands.
Hitler never visited Auschwitz, nor any other death camps (not to be confused with concentration camps). This forms part of the argument that Hitler was not to blame for the Holocaust as he never directly ordered extermination. +++ A desperate argument because he knew perfectly well the purpose of the concentration and extermination camps as they were part of his own policy. That heading photo is of a pair of cremators in one of the camps.
U.S. correspondents were permitted to visit Nazi Concentration camps at Majdanek where Germans put approximately 1,500,000 victims to death.
Because if the secret of the concentration/extermination camps came out to the public, he didn't want the public to know he commissioned them - Most of the documents he signed regarding the activities of the camps were kept secret from everyone but his top officers. He did send out high-ranking Nazis (Like leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler) to visit the camps and report back to him with information on a regular basis, however. But he tried his damnedest not to be connected with the those camps.
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The IRC's first and only visit to the concentration camps during WW-II was made on 23 July 1944. This was to Theresienstadt, the model ghetto that was established for just such a purpose. Germany only allowed this visit nine months after the IRC had requested it and that gave them plenty of time to stage the show. The IRC issued a "favorable" report on this visit, and though it was protested, it stood. No follow up was made and the vast majority of these prisoners were transported to Auschwitz. _____ That was a visit by the Danish Red Cross, not the IRC. At the time Denmark was under Nazi occupation ...
Though the camps do not serve the same purpose that they did in the war (thank God!), there are many camps that are still standing as memorials to those who lost their lives there and as reminders of the atrocities that took place there so that they may never happen again.Some of these are:Auschwitz (Poland)Mauthausen (Austria)Treblinka (Poland)Theresienstadt (Terezin) (Czech Republic)Buchenwald (Germany)Dachau (Germany)Flossenburg (Germany)Sachsenhausen (Germany)Stutthof (Poland)Majdanek (Poland)Bergen-Belsen (Germany)Ravensbruck (Germany)Chelmno (Poland)These camps existed for various reasons (they were not all extermination camps) and exist currently in various states: some maintain parts of the original camps, some have models, and some are simply memorials at camp sites.Parts of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau have been preserved as major museums.Note. If you are planning to visit any of the former camps listed above it is best to check out beforehand what is actually there. In many cases there is little more than a memorial, while some are large museums.
When Hitler gained he enforced strict laws on Jews that just kept getting harsher and harsher. Ghettos were usally a sectioned of area in a major city suronded by barbed wire fences and gaurded by Nazis. Ghettos were the place were all the Jews and other undesireables being persecuted by Hitler were sent. These places were impoverished and filthy. People lived and worked in the ghettos but many were forced to do cruel jobs ebforced by the Nazis. When the ghettos got to full the Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Before the Jews were sent to the concentration camps they were sent to transit camps. Transit camps were where Jews stayed until they were sent to the concentration camp. It was sort of a sorting ground like some may have been sent to Auschwitz well others were sent to Birkenau. Transit camps were similar to concentration camps but the conditions were significanty better. To learn more about this topic and the holocaust I encourage you to visit United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at USHMM.org
You can visit http://www.camppage.com/summer-camps/girls-camps/girls-camps-index.htm to see a list of camps available for girls in the United States. Some results here are writing camps.
The following have museums: * Auschwitz (Oswiemcim, near Krakow, Poland) * Majdanek (in Lublin, Poland) * Dachau (near Munich, Germany) * Buchenwald (near Weimar, Germany) There are various monuments and memorials on the sites of many other camps, including: * Treblinka (Poland) * Belzec (Poland) * Bergen-Belsen (Germany) The lists are not complete.