1. Concentration Camps In World War Two
By: Rebecca Smith
History 11-B Block
May 31, 2005

2. Outline Significance Conditions Types of camps Auschwitz
1945JFMA.html

3. Introduction to Concentration Camps
Started for political enemies
Many people, not just Jews placed in camps
Name loosely used

4. Significance of Concentration Camps
Genocide/War crimes
Horrible conditions

5. Conditions in a Concentration Camp
prisoners overworked, starved, beaten, kept dirty, and periodically asstripped
ridden with lice and disease, overcrowded

6. Types Of Concentration Camps
Prison camps
Extermination camps
Labor camps
A mass-grave site
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Holocaust

7. Prisoners sent here while waiting to be sent to another camp
Prison Camps
Prisoners sent here while waiting to be sent to another camp

8. Some Prison Camps Bergen-Belsen Bredtvet Breendonk Falstad Grini
Herzogenbusch
Niederhagen
Oranienburg
Osthofen
Theresienstadt 
Westerbork

9. Labor Camps To make up for labor lost due to war
Work at a pace unhealthy for a healthy person

10. Labor Camps Cont. Over 7 000 000 people placed in labor camps
Children killed, they couldn’t
perform hard labor
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11. Some Labour Camps Arbeitsdorf Auschwitz Neuengamme Niederhagen
Breendonk
Buchenwald
Dachau
Flossenbürg
Gross-Rosen
Kaufering/Landsberg
Lwów
Mauthausen-Gusen
Mittlebau-Dora
Neuengamme
Niederhagen
Natzweiler-Struthof
Kraków-Plaszów
Ravensbrück
Riga-Kaiserwald
Sachsenhausen
Stuttof
Lager Sylt
Warsaw

12. Prisoner’s Badges Worn in Dachau Concentration Camp

13. Extermination Camps
Most camps, prisoners were to be killed within 24 hours
Used more frequently later in the war
Most famous, Auschwitz
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14. Auschwitz Three parts (Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau,
Auschwitz III-Monowitz)
over 40 sub-camps
70-80% people at Auschwitz died

15. Auschwitz Cont. “Medical experiments” were done by Nazi SS doctors
Phenol injections ml. into the heart = death within fifteen seconds total of 2 minutes, 22 seconds to kill one prisoner
Virtual Tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau

16. Some Extermination Camps
Auschwitz (I, II, III)
Belzec
Chelmno
Lwów
Majdanek
Maly Trostenets
Sobibór
Treblinka
Warsaw
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18. Timeline March 22, 1933 first concentration camp established
June first prisoners are sent to Auschwitz
September 3, first gassings done
December 7-8, mass killings started

19. Timeline Cont. December 1942 Belzec ends its mass killings
July concentration camps begin to be evacuated
May 8, last camp is liberated

20. Bibliography
A History O' Germany. Comp. Owen G, and Joseph K. 17 Apr <
Bluman, Jonathan . Auschwitz Alphabet. <
Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War Against the Jews: Bantam Books, 1975.
Kreis, Steven. The History Guide: Lectures on Twentieth Century Europe < ueurope/lecture11.html+concentration+camps+in+world+war+two&hl=en>.
"List of German Concentration Camps." 30 Apr Wikipedia. <
Memorial and Museum: Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ed. Jaroslaw Mensfelt, and Teresa aSwiebocka. Trans. William Brand Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau. <
Rashke, Richard. Escape From Sobibor: The Heroic Story of the Jews Who Escaped afrom a Nazi Death Camp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.

21. Bibliography Cont.
Timeline of the Holocaust: Concentration Camps. <
Virtual Tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau. a<