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concentration camp- a camp where large numbers of persons—such as political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees—are detained for the purpose of concentrating them in one place.
- a camp or premises in which persons considered to be undesirable by those who control it are hidden away, mistreated, and even killed.
- A situation wherein crowding and extremely harsh conditions take place.
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- 1.Nazi concentration camps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Racial policy · Nazi eugenics · Nuremberg Laws · Euthanasia program · Concentration camps (list) ... Concentration and Extermination camps: ...
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azi_concentration_camps
- 2.Concentration Camps, 1933-1939
- Arrival of political prisoners at the Oranienburg concentration camp. ... Eicke had been the commandant of the SS concentration camp at Dachau since June 1933. ...
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How might concentration camp A little more detailed version
of the question: How might
concentration camp doctors and
guards have justified to
themselves the death and
suffering they caused other
human beings during the
Holocaust?
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Some of the research that was undertaken was for the war effort. For example, during the war the Luftwaffe were losing many pilots. Many would crash into the ocean and survive only to die later from hypothermia. They then would put prisoners in drums of ice cold water and then try and figure out the best way to warm them up (eg. Slowly/quickly, etc) Most would die. They would have been able to justify this to themselves as this was helping the war effort and their pilots. It made it much easier having being surrounded by anti-semitic propaganda for some time well before the WW2 had started. This had helped shape the image of the Jews as being sub-human and therefore help in the guards and doctors being able to detach themselves from their suffering. |
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What is the difference between My English class is reading
"Night" by Elie Wisel (It's
about the Holocaust) and I was
wondering what the difference
is between a concentration
camp, a labor camp, and a
death camp? I just want a
basic answer. Nothing gruesome
please.
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there is not much difference by definition: labor camps a penal colony where forced labor is performed concentration camps a camp where persons (as prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined death camp a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed |
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Concentration Im interested in the
concentration camps in the
second world war.
i want 5 facts and 5 opinions
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Try Google or Wikipedia. Or go to your public library and look for books on WWII and concentration camps. |
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