Concentration Camps

The BeginningThe concentration camps all

started in 1933-1945. The very first concentration camp ever, was made in January 1933. After that camp…German authorities started to build camps all over the place and this was when it started. They named it the camps “concentration camps” because everybody who was captured…were physically “concentrated”.

WhereA lot of concentration camps

were spread out through Germany. Most of the camps were located in the general government in occupied Germany . It is estimated that 15,000 camps were established all together!

Map of Concentration Camps

Names of Camps These are just some of the camps…there are many, many more

A B

Amersfoot Banjica Breendonk

Hinzert Barbufoss Buchenwald

Arbeitsdorf Berlin C Herzogenbucsh Bernburg Chelmano

Auschwitz Bolzano Bogclanovka Bredvet

Names of camps continued… D G J Drancy Grini Junowska Dachaw Grossrosen Jasebovac F H K Falstad Hinzert Kaiserwald Flossenburg Herzogenbucsh Kaurey

Kloogey

Names of camps continued… L O R

T Levernet Ohrdurf Ravenbruck

Treblinka Osthofen M S

V Malchow P Salaspills

Vaivara Plaszow Saldaw N Struthoff WNiederhagen

Warsaw

What took place?Some of the things that took place in the concentration camps were the victims were enslaved, starved, tortured, and killed. Most of them died of mistreatment, disease, starvation, overwork, or execution. People usually died in gas chambers! Some people even died before they reached the camps! There were many different ways that they the victims could have died! Sometimes… by either the heat of the Summer… or the cold of the Winter was the cause of death!

Pictures of what took place

This is a gas

chamber

Fast Facts There was an estimate of

6,400,000 people killed in the concentration camps.

More than half of the victims killed were killed in gas chambers.

Some Nazi doctors in the camps performed medical treatments on the victims to experiment.

TwinsIn certain camps…they did gruesome and terrible experiments on twins because Adolf Hitler was very interested in them. He wanted to make a master race of blonde hair, blue eyes, and very tall. He was interested in them because if there were twins…then he could make the master race easier and faster! If he could breed in multiples, then it would take much less time to create the race. He and the Germans who worked in the camps performed horrible experiments on them.

Twins continued…The very person most responsible for these horrible experiments was by the name of Josef Mengele. He was the one that decided that if he were to do experiments on them then it would be easier to figure out how to create the “master race”! They performed such things on twins as using chemicals on their eyes, shots in certain body parts, and there are many more horrible grotesque experiments that scientist performed!

Josef MengeleThis is Josef Mengele. He performed his experiments in Auschwitz. He influenced scientist all over the place

that worked in concentration camps to perform these certain experiments.

Pictures