German concentration camps were mostly extermination or death camps designed to murder the inmates, primarily Jews. Some camps also sent out inmates to be used as slave labor. Slave labor was often outside the camp at a factory, railyard, rock quarry, underground mine, etc. Also all camps used the inmates to perform some sort of work at the camps themselves. All the German camps were operated in total violation of international law and well outside all standard norms of behavior.
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One needs to distinguish between the extermination camps and the other concentration camps. (The Auschwitz group of camps and Majdanek were dual purpose camps that combined both functions).
Slave labour usually involved working for up to 11 hours a day, six days a week, on inadequate food, under the supervision of the SS, with savage punishments for even minor breaches of camp discipline.
The work that slave labourers had to do included: quarrying, agricultural labour and working in the chemicals and armaments industries.
They were separated and if it was an extermination camp, those considered unfit for use as slave labor were put to death.
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.
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.
Yes, conditions in both kinds of camps were generally appalling.
The Jews did slave work in the concentration camp. The slave work was building tanks and weapons that he was killing other people with.
The right was slave labor, and the left was the gas chambers.
labor and concentration camps
By 1944 Nazi had 13 main concentration camps and over 500 satellite camps. The concentration camps were not just to murder people but also for free slave labor.
They were separated and if it was an extermination camp, those considered unfit for use as slave labor were put to death.
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.
Hard physical labor.
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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.
The Nazis made over 75 million Reichmarks which is equivalent to £156.25 million
Yes, conditions in both kinds of camps were generally appalling.
The Jews did slave work in the concentration camp. The slave work was building tanks and weapons that he was killing other people with.
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.