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How many concentration camps I read somewhere there was an
estimated 20,000 concentration
camps during the holocaust. Is
this true?
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There were several main concentration camps specifically designated for extermation such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka then there were camps that were both for work and extermanation with sub-camps. I actually have the figuires and will post them in about 10 hours. Ok here we go................. The number of KL's in greater Germany has been estimated at various times during 1941, 1942 and 1943 to total from about thirty to about seventy-five, although more than 100 camps sites have been reported. The capacity of KL's (caoncentration camps) in Gernmany was probably about 500,000. A report dated 1943, concerning camps in Poland spoke of the existance of 109 camps in that country divided into the following types:- Nine transit camps 24 KL's 3 forced labour camps 60 smaller forced labour camps 3 camps for priests 9 camps for Jews 1 camp for the "improvement of the Nordic race". The most conservative estimate of the number of persons in "protective custody" in Germany proper in July 1944 was from 170,000 to 370,000. Here is the final 1945 estimates. There were camps in the Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, Channel Isles, Danzig, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Slovakia and Yugoslavia. Here they are in territorial order: Baltic states: 8 Belgium: 12 Bulgaria: 3 Channel Islands :3 Danzig : 6 Denmark : 4 France: 83 Germany: 329 Greece: 65 Holland: 31 Hungary: 1 Italy: 1 Norway: 29 Poland : 192, but 43 are cross referenced, mostly the result that many locations are known by thier Polish as well as German names. Slovikia: 2 Yugoslavia: 19 and 6 camps unlocated. That's approx: 751 KNOWN CAMPS! The brakdown of camps were the: Konzentratinslager (concentration camps) Arbeitslager (work camps) Zwangslager (forciable detention camps) Zwangsarbeitslager (penal servitude) Zivilgefangenenlager ( detention camp for civilians) Straflager (punitive camps) If needed I can provide more detailed information on each individual camp including camp organization, methods of prisoner identification, camp guards, TV regiments, etc. Hope this helps. |
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How would the world be Please give ideas and theories
of what the world would be
like today if the holocaust
had never occured. I am
curious of other people's
thoughts. What would be
different? Would the world
have progressed in technology
as much as we have? Would the
atomic bomb ever have come
about?
Thanks. Your thoughts are
greatly appreciated.
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Adolf Hitler's extermination of what he considered the 'inferior races,' especially the Jewish people would never have occurred. World War II would have been more contained, with the fact that Germany attacked England, and Japan the United States, thus involving the US in this Global conflict. If the holocaust hadn't occurred, millions of people would not have died. Their potential contributions to progress, technology, and the world we live in can never be precisely determined. With the overwhelming number of people that lost their lives in the holocaust, the odds are that there was a great potential for unique scientific and technological contributions that may have influenced the world today. That was taken from us, and the way in which the world would be different, or a better place, is something which man can only speculate on. |
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What happened to children in I am writing an essay for
school, can someone please
tell me what happened to
children in school during the
Holocaust, and some examples
of the discrimination,
anti-semitism?
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http://shamash.org/holocaust/p hotos/images/Classrm.jpg as stated on the website-"Circa 1935: two Jewish pupils are humiliated before their classmates. The inscription on the blackboard reads "The Jew is our greatest enemy, beware of the Jew". " I think this picture shows discrimination, anti-semitism, and what happens to the children in school. If they went to the camps,they were most likely were killed first in the crematories. If they had any chance of surviving they tried to pass themselves as older. Twins, and some children were exiled to experiments hosted by the horrific "Dr. Mengele" |
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How many people survived the I think I heard somewhere that
1 out of 10 people survived
the Holocaust, but I'm not
sure. Does anyone know if I'm
right? If I'm wrong, what is
the correct ratio?
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lets say about millions died compared to the 1/10 that survived |
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During the Holocaust, how did Also, I was wondering how long
it took for a person to be
killed in the gas chambers. I
need to know this for my
Holocaust project that's due
tomorrow.
Oh, please give me the legit
source you got your answer
from because I need to
footnote everything.
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Zyklon B [hydrogen cyanide] is much more effective on warm-blooded animals, including humans, than it is on insects. The exposure period (to HCN) is much greater in delousing operations than in homicidal gassings. This means that a much lower concentration is necessary to kill people than to get rid of lice, etc. In delousing, concentrations of up to 16,000 ppm (parts per million) are sometimes used, and exposure time can be up to 72 hours; while 300 ppm will kill people in fifteen minutes or so. Therefore, the HCN in the extermination chambers hardly had time to form compounds on the walls. While some claim that the gas would need a lot of time to kill, because it would have to spread all over the chamber, it simply is not true; the gas chambers were not that large (those in Krematoria II and III were about 210 square meters), and the Zyklon-B was dropped from four openings (still visible in the ruins of the gas chambers). Since the concentration used was higher than the lethal one, death was very swift. During this operation gas-masks must be worn. The ventilation takes place in the reverse direction to the gassing. All windows near the entrance are opened first, then gradually those in the rest of the building. It is advisable to work only for 10 to 15 minutes at a time and then to make interruptions of half an hour, as a precaution against skin poisoning. Depending on concentration, outdoor tempature and weather conditions, ventilation will take at least 10 hours. Clearing of tins and residues may be commenced before the end of airing. Windows and doors must remain open, and gas-masks kept available. ZYKLON tins and absorbent material must always be collected and cleared away before the resumption of work. Zyklon B at Auschwitz-Birkenau was used mainly for two purposes, delousing and murder. The eyewitness testimony to murder by poison is overwhelming. 22 Pressac reconstructs a gassing that took place March 13, 1943: That same night, 1,492 women, children, and old people, selected from a convoy of 2,000 Jews from the Krakow ghetto, were killed in the new crematorium. Six kilos of Zyklon B were poured into the stacks that opened into the four grillework columns implanted between the pillars that supported the ceiling. Within five minutes, all the victims had succumbed. The aeration (8,000 cu m an hour) and deaeration system (same strength) were then started up and, after 15 to 20 minutes, the atmosphere, which had been practically renewed every three to four minutes, was sufficiently pure so that members of the Sonderkommando could enter the stiflingly hot gas chamber. During this first gassing [in the new Krema II gas chamber], the Sonderkommandos wore gas masks as a precaution. |
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