Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
According to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, there were 23 main concentration camps (German: Stammlager), of which most had a system of satellite camps. [1] Including the satellite camps, the total number of Nazi concentration camps that existed at one point in time is at least a thousand, although these did not all exist at the same time.
During the Final Solution of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany created six extermination camps to carry out the systematic genocide of the Jews in German-occupied Europe.All the camps were located in the General Government area of German-occupied Poland, with the exception of Chelmno, which was located in the Reichsgau Wartheland of German-occupied Poland.
The German Empire also established concentration camps during the Herero and Namaqua genocide (1904–1907); the death rate of these camps was 45 per cent, twice that of the British camps. [ 5 ] During the First World War , eight to nine million prisoners of war were held in prisoner-of-war camps , some of them at locations which were later the ...
Executed by Nazi Germany for multiple "unauthorized murders" and embezzlement Paul-Werner Hoppe: February 28, 1910 July 15, 1974 64 years, 196 days Commandant of Stutthof concentration camp, September 1942 - April 1945 Died of natural causes Hermann Pister: February 21, 1885 September 28, 1948 63 years, 250 days
Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (German: Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe, primarily in occupied Poland, during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million people – mostly Jews – in the Holocaust.
It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Some of the last survivors will be joined by world leaders on Monday, to commemorate the 1.1 million ...
Auschwitz concentration camp: Egon Friedell: 1878–1938: Austrian: Actor, cabaret performer Jewish: Suicide to avoid arrest by Sturmabteilung: Eugen Burg: 1871–1944: German: Film actor Jewish: Died at an unknown concentration camp: Ernst Arndt: 1861-1942/3: German: Actor Jewish: Murdered in the gas chamber at Treblinka concentration camp ...
Auschwitz or Oświęcim, [3] was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) [4] during World War II and the Holocaust.