DEATH CAMPS

First concentration camp was built in 1933 by nazis, the first year of Hitler in power

The SS(Schutzstaffel) "hired out" prisoners to private German industries; some that are still famous, the I.G. Farben, Krupp, Siemens, Telefunken, and Porche

TRICKERY

• Nazis pretended to be friendly
• Said the death chambers were showers
• Pretended it was a labor camp, not death camp
• Told to take off clothes before entering "showers"
• Sometimes shipped to camps in passenger cars

LIST OF CAMPS

• Chelmno - 360,000 victims.
• Belzec - 600,000 victims
• Sobibor - 250,000
• Treblinka - 800,000
• Maidanek - 500,000

SURVIVORS

• Chelmno - 3
• Belzec - 2
• Sobibor - 64
• Treblinka - under 40
• Maidanek - under 600

AUSCHWITZ

• Biggest death and concentration camp
• 1.5 - 2 million prisoners
• Several thousand survivors
• The only reason it has relatively large amount of survivors is
• because it was both a death camp and concentration camp

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