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The Holocaust: What's the What's the difference between
those two. Are they the same?
Giv eme details please. Also,
what was the role of the
United States at the
Holocaust? Did they caused the
Holocaust?
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Extermination camps (e.g. Auschwitz) were industrial scale slaughterhouses in which Jews and others the Nazis disliked were simply put to death. The term "concentration camp" can refer to a range of prison camps, including of course the German ones which were particularly unpleasant. The word simply means that people in a certain category are collected (concentrated) in the place. Britain had them in the Boer War to house noncombatants from cleared war zones. Both sides had them to hold political opponents in the Spanish Civil War. The French had them to contain refugees from that war. The USA had them for Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbour. In some, conditions were relatively benign; in others they were unspeakable. In Germany, the concentration camps fell into three categories: work camps, penal camps (e.g. Dachau and Mauthausen) and extermination camps. They were all nasty places, and the only escape from them was usually by death, in one form or another. Since the Nazi experience the term has understandably gone out of fashion and governments nowadays prefer to talk about refugee camps, prison camps, reeducation colonies etc. Hope this helps. |
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extermination camps are when they are killed when they get there for that only. concentration camps are there for labor like slaves. |
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The extermination camps were created specially for genocide, people were gassed there. In the concentration camp the people were kept there and forced to work, there they would die from disease, desnutrition, etc... During WWII United States didn't care a lot about all the people that were deported to concentration/extermination camps. The refugee policy of the U.S. State Department (led by Secretary of State Cordell Hull) made it difficult for refugees to obtain entry visas to the United States. The U.S. State Department also delayed publicizing reports of genocide. In August 1942, the State Department received a cable revealing Nazi plans for the murder of Europe's Jews. However, the report, sent by Gerhart Riegner (the World Jewish Congress [WJC] representative in Geneva) was not passed on to its intended recipient, American Jewish leader and WJC president Stephen Wise. The State Department asked Wise, who had almost simultaneously received the report via British channels, to refrain from announcing it. The United States failed to act decisively to rescue victims of the Holocaust. On April 19, 1943, U.S. and British representatives met in Bermuda to find solutions to wartime refugee problems. No significant proposals emerged from the conference. In 1943, Polish underground courier Jan Karski informed President Franklin D. Roosevelt of reports of mass murder received from Jewish leaders in the Warsaw ghetto. U.S. authorities did not, however, initiate any action aimed at rescuing refugees until 1944, when Roosevelt established the War Refugee Board (WRB). By the spring of 1944, the Allies knew of the killing operations using poison gas at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Some Jewish leaders pleaded unsuccessfully with U.S. government officials to bomb the gas chambers and rail tracks leading to the camp. Even after the Anglo-American air forces developed the capacity to hit targets in Silesia (where Auschwitz was located) in 1944, U.S. authorities decided not to bomb the gas chambers or the rail lines. U.S. officials argued that U.S. aircraft did not have the capacity to conduct air raids on these targets with sufficient accuracy, and that the Allies were committed to bomb exclusively military targets to win the war as quickly as possible. United States didn't cause the Holocaust. The Holocaust was something very bad that happened, and it was all crazy Hitler's idea. He though jews were the main cause that Germany had so many problems. Even though Heinrich Himmler had the main idea of killing Jews in gas chambers. I hope this help you!! |
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Extermination camps- were industrial scale slaughterhouses in which Jews and others the Nazis disliked were simply put to death. Concentration camps- were basiccaly proson camps. They made you do bad things. like work alot |
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Extermination camps were solely for killing. Thousands would be sent to extermination camps (like Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka) via train. Upon arrival their possesions would be taken and later sorted, the Jews (or Gypsies, Homosexuals, Blacks, etc.) would be hearded like cattle towards a field to wait for what they thought were showers. Large groups would be sent into a room where they would take of their clothes. They then were all forced to go into the gas chamber (ironically the door read " Harmful gas! Entering endangers your life"). There they were murdered and their bodies either burned in the crematory (and their gold teeth collected) or buried in mass graves. Concentration camps were a little diffrent. The process of getting there was the same, but women, men, and children would be sorted in the 'fit to work' or 'unfit to work' categories. Those who were unfit to work were killed immeadiatley by way of the gas chamber or shot at an execution wall. Those deemed fit to work were cleaned, head shaved, and tattooed with a number on their left arm. Their clothes, shoes, and all possesions were taken. They wore striped prison uniforms that most likely used to be someone else's. They were put to work, brutally experimented on, starved til near death, and in most cases died by starvation, illness, or gassing/execution. Auschwitz was both a concentration camp and an extermination camp and around 1,100,000 people died there. Mauthausen was a famous concentration camp where around 120,000 died. So the main diffrence is: extermination camps= certain death concentration camps= most likely death but small chance of forced labor and survival until liberation (especially if you were a healthy young man) The US did not cause the Holocaust. That was most if not all a European thing. The US liberated camps and freed 'slaves' once involved in that part of the war. |
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People who were sent to the extermination camps were sent to be exterminated...most likely allot of Jews and other people that often Germans thought as of a waste of money like handicaps and the not healthy...also it was because Hitler wanted a pure race....yet he new he wasn't pure himself but since his speech's were so Mamorizing that made other Germans think that that is what he wanted. Concentration camps were labor camps were 14+ to 40- year old people were sent to work all day and if there was any problem with that, they were immediatly sent or killed at scene. There they were tormented and some died of lack in nutrients because they were fed so little food. But some wouldn't complain and have lived on to this day to talk about how bad experinces they had...for more info go to the Museum of Tolerance. |
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Extermination camps were also refered to as Death camps. this name shows you what happened in these camps. these camps Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and the most famous Birkenaw were all located in Poland. there sole porpose was killing jews in the masses. these camps use zkylon b gas, which was originally a pest killer, to kill jews. in total 2,700,000 jews were killed in these 6 death camps. The concentration camps on the other hand were very different. theyr sole porpose was use the jews for work. although many people died in concentration camps, they were not made for killing. the germans had over 100 concentration camps during the war. As for the United states, they were not very involved in the holocaust. they had no part in starting the mass killing, but they did not help the jews. In the Bermuda conference in 1938, the US along with all of the other countries refused to take in jews, offered to them by Germany. the only country that did accept Jews was the Dominican republic. These countries are at fault for not accepting the jews when they all got a clear warning about what was soon to happen. |
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