Concentration Camps Flashcards
1
Q
Outline the significance of Auschwitz [4 points]
A
Established in 1940 with 728 polish prisoners
870,000 jews murdererd (most)
Many slave labourers survived
On liberation the camps machinery was intact
2
Q
What was stage one of the concentration camps?
A
1933-36
3
Q
What was stage two of the concentration camps?
A
1936-39
4
Q
What was stage three of the concentration camps?
A
1939-41
5
Q
What was stage four of the concentration camps?
A
The war 1939-45
6
Q
Outline stage one of the concentration camps [4 points]
A
- focus on political opposition
- 200,000 arrests
- 170 detention homes in berlin
- Dachau, what will be used as the model camp
7
Q
Outline stage two of the concentration camps [4 points]
A
- campaign against asocials
- expansion of the camp system - more built
- introduction of widespread markings on prisoner uniforms
- jews come into picture
8
Q
Outline stage three of the concentration camps
A
- stepping up with repression of the enemy within
- subjugation of conquered peoples
- slave labour sysyem
9
Q
Outline stage four of the concentration camps [3 points]
A
- occupation of poland - 3millions jews
- invasion of ussr - 4 million jews
- ss given control of jewish question in 1939, no plans to exterminate before 1941
