They were responsible for shooting anyone who tried to escape. Beyond that, just about any atrocity you can imagine was allowed. German concentration camp guards and other Nazi's were guilty of torture, vivisection, human experimentation, rape, murder and starving their prisoners. Some of their experiments were performed by what is still a well known aspirin manufacturer as they attempted to discover the effects of other drugs. Personally, I do not allow any products from that company in my home.
The concentration and extermination camps were notguarded by Jews. In the ghettos in Poland, the Jewish Councils were required to police themselves. In practice, the only alternative was to be policed by the SS.
I just so happened to have completed research and editing of a war journal by a World War Two soldier. He happened to be stationed in the town of Dachau, not far from the concentration camp and used Nazi SS POW's
kept at Dachau after the war, to unload and ship supplies to "Displaced Persons."
Dachau Concentration Camp for instance was the first camp to be established by the Nazis. A major facility adjacent to the camp grounds was a center to train Nazi SS guards for concentration camp duties. Although male guards outnumbered females, their were nineteen SS female guards at Dachau.
SS Guards, were known as "Storm Troopers," and were first used as "Protection Squadrons." They were the elite guard of the Nazi party. Made up of local police and civilian authorities, they organized detention camps to incarcerate and detain, political opponents of the Nazi party.
Warsaw, it was the largest Jewish ghetto of all.
No, every building in the Warsaw was destroyed by the SS in April and May, 1943 when they put down the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto established in Poland. the total of Jews that can be crowded in is about 450,000 Jews. They were crowded into an area of 1.4 square miles that was the Warsaw ghetto.
See the related link for a site with an interactive map of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Nazis employed some Jewish people to guard others that were confined in the Warsaw ghetto. The Jewish ghetto police, also called flops, were promised better treatment, and promised freedom. The flops were very brutal in some cases exceeding the brutality of the Nazis themselves.
Warsaw Ghetto was created in 1940.
The Warsaw Ghetto was built in November 16, 1940
In Warsaw, Poland.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising didn't actually occur in a camp. It occurred in the Warsaw Ghetto. For more on the Warsaw Ghetto, check out the link below. Also - please don't confuse the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943 with the much bigger Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
Warsaw, it was the largest Jewish ghetto of all.
The Warsaw ghetto was created to make a place to concentrate the Jews of the region.
No, every building in the Warsaw was destroyed by the SS in April and May, 1943 when they put down the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto established in Poland. the total of Jews that can be crowded in is about 450,000 Jews. They were crowded into an area of 1.4 square miles that was the Warsaw ghetto.
See the related link for a site with an interactive map of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Nazis employed some Jewish people to guard others that were confined in the Warsaw ghetto. The Jewish ghetto police, also called flops, were promised better treatment, and promised freedom. The flops were very brutal in some cases exceeding the brutality of the Nazis themselves.
The Warsaw Ghetto was destroyed at the end of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943. The site (or part of it) was later used as a concentration camp, but very little is known about it. By January 1945 the Soviet Army was in Warsaw.
The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto in Poland. More than 400,000 Jewish people were shoved into 1.3 square miles. It was centered in the Polish capital, located in Nazi occupied Europe.