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Although the British are said to have invented and used concentration camps in the Boer War, such camps are mainly associated with Nazi Germany.
The Nazis had four main types of camp:
The Stalags: prisoner-of-war camps
Labour camps: where slave labourers were housed
Concentration camps: interim holding camps
Extermination camps; where prisoners were murdered soon after arrival.
Some concentration camps also has extermination facilities such as gas chambers and incinerators.
British and Allied POWs were treated relatively well.
Russian and East European POWs were treated very badly, often being starved or murdered.
Slave labourers were treated sufficiently well to keep them useful to the Nazi state, but such workers did not last long before they became infirm and were shipped off for extermination.
In concentration camps, conditions were hell on earth.
In extermination camps, the poor victims did not have long to suffer before they were killed.
Death Camps (or extermination camps) were used for the immediate extermination of Jews and other groups while Concentration camps were used for the Jews and other groups to make products for the Nazi war machine.
In labour camps people were made to do work; often being mistreated and forced to do hard labour until they died. In death camps they were just killed when they arrived.
Concentration camp inmates were sent to work for a nearby industry. Labor camp inmates may have been treated a very little better than concentration camp inmates because they were useful. Labor camps were brutal in spite of the fact that the inmates were useful and large numbers died, but they were not designed to kill. Death camps, on the other hand, were designed purely for killing. This was their sole purpose and was where you'd find the large gas chambers, etc.
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There were at least three different types of camps:
1. Extermination camps (often referred to as death camps). These camps were designed only to kill. The aim was to kill nearly all new arrivals within 24 hours. A very small number of new arrivals were selected to help with the killing process, for example by dragging dead bodies to the crematoria. These camps were run by the SS.
2. Concentration camps. These were very harsh punishment camps. The inmates had to work for the SS or were hired out as slave labour to German industry. These camps had a very high Death Rate and were also run by the SS.
3. Labor camps. These were for foreign workers, such as Ukrainians and Italians would were forced to work in Germany. The conditions were harsh, but generally better than in concentration camps. They were run by a variety of agencies.
Auschwitz was a vast complex of camps, with three on the main site and 45 satellite camps. The Auschwitz group combined the functions of types 1 and 2.
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What does blokova mean?
A prisoner in charge at the camps (concentration camps, death camps, forced labor camps) during the Holocaust. These people were typically non-Jewish (Jews were treated the worst in the camps).
What does appelplatz mean?
Roll call area inside concentration, labor and death camps
What kind of camps did Hitler?
labor and concentration camps
What were nazi labor camps?
Transit camps were places to hold people until they could be shipped off to other camps such as execution or forced-labor camps. Well known transit camps include Westerbork (Netherlands) and Breendonk (Belgium).
What were the different types of camps in World War 2?
== == The following are the types of camps that were used in the Holocaust: * "Concentration camps" is the generic term for the prison camps maintained by the Third Reich. * "Labor camps" were those that were maintained for the purpose of exploiting slave labor. * "Extermination camps" were six camps located in Poland where the mass murder of Jews and others took place. Many of the concentration camps were complexes of several camps and some had dual functions. At the Auschwitz complex, for example, most of the genocide took place in a subcamp called Birkenau. There was also a labor camp named Monowitz that was part of the complex where an artificial rubber plant was built. Likewise, Treblinka, another extermination camp, was part of a complex of three camps, two of which were used for slave labor.
How would you be tortured in a Nazi Death camp?
If you were in a Nazi death camp, (there is a difference between death/extermination camps and the labor camps) you would be tortured in any inhumane way possible.Medical experiencesHaving to work with lack of foodStarvationFear of selectionsRoll CallKnowing about the gas chambers
Which of the following describes a difference between concentration camps and extermination camps in nazi Germany's?
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
What does blokova mean?
A prisoner in charge at the camps (concentration camps, death camps, forced labor camps) during the Holocaust. These people were typically non-Jewish (Jews were treated the worst in the camps).
How many concentration camps where in Poland?
The Germans set-up many camps in occupied Poland perhaps 2,000. These included concentration and labour camps mostly for ethnic Poles. There were also ghettos and death camps most for ethnic Jews.
What does appelplatz mean?
Roll call area inside concentration, labor and death camps
What is the difference between concentration camps and labor camps?
A labor camp was basically a sort of special prison where inmates were forced to do hard labor."Concentration camp" is the larger umbrella term for all Nazi-run camps (the term actually predates Nazism). Subtypes of concentration camps include labor camps, transit camps (where inmates are collected and transferred elsewhere), prisoner of war camps (where captured enemy soldiers were kept) and extermination or death camps (where inmates were simply killed).
Where did the prisoners from the holocaust die?
They died in the Nazi Concentration camps, death marches between camps or general didn't survive when escaped. Most deaths occurred at the Nazi Concentration camps. There are differnet kinds of camps:Concentration, Death, Extermination, Transition and Labor camps. Each kind of camps has got it's own purpose such as holding people or killing them in mass numbers.
What is the difference between social legislation and labor legislation?
difference between labor law and social legislation
Were all concentration camps killing centers?
No. Historians distiguish between #1 extermination campsand #2 ordinary concentration camps. The extermination camps were killing centres and served no other function and had very few survivors. Conditions at concentration camps varied and many inmates survived.Please see the related question.
Were there more than 3 types of camps in the holocaust?
No there was not. Here are the 2 types:Concentration Camps- live, eat, backbreaking labor,etc...Extermination Camps- gas chambers where you would meet your death.
What was some of the labor in the concentration camps of the holocaust?
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.
Which line left or right was the death line at the concentration camps?
The right was slave labor, and the left was the gas chambers.
