1. About Concentration Camps
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WW2 Concentration Camps
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About Concentration Camps
Dachau
Sachsenhau-sen
Auschwitz
Buchenwald
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2. Curator’s Office Bryce Bell, August Souza, and Alec Wong
Bryce Bell, August Souza, and Alec Wong are all students a Depoali Middle School in Ms. Townsends 2 period class researching codes of WWll.
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3. About Concentration Camps
Room 1
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4. Dachau 8
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5. Sachsenhau-sen
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6. Buchenwald
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8. About Concentration Camps
The Nazis set up their first concentration camp, Dachau, in the wake of Hitler’s takeover of power in By the end of the war, 22 main concentration camps were established, together with around 1,200 affiliate camps.
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9. Forced Labor in Camps
Forced  labor played an important role in the Nazi regime’s Jewish policy as well as for the economy of the concentration camps. Forced labor became particularly important following the outbreak of World War II, when the Nazi war economy demanded an enormous effort.
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10. Splitting up
When you first got to the camps, you were being split up by gender and if you were strong or weak. If you were old or to young or to weak you would go to one side and if you were strong you go to the other side. On the weak side they will tell you that they are taking tou to the gas chambers and tell you that you were going to take a bath but then they killed you. On the strong side you would be stripes and tattooed with a number.
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11. Gas Chambers
In the gas chambers you would be forced to go in hundreds at a time and then they would drop a can of toxic gas through a hole on the roof. People did not run because they were tired and they wanted to bathe and they also were treated nicely up until they were going in so they thought they were safe and would not panic.
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American soldiers view bodies of victims of Kaufering, a network of subsidiary camps of the Dachau concentration camp. Landsberg-Kaufering, Germany, April 30, 1945
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View of the Dachau concentration camp, Germany.
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A Romani (Gypsy) victim of Nazi medical experiments to make seawater potable. Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 1944
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Human remains found in the Dachau concentration camp crematorium after liberation. Germany, April 1945.
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Karl-Heinz Kusserow, a Jehovah's witness who was imprisoned by the Nazis because of his beliefs. He was a prisoner in the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in Germany.
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Jews arrested during Kristallnacht stand under guard before being deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Zeven, Germany, November 10, 1938.
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Uniformed prisoners with triangular badges are assembled under Nazi guard at the Sachenhausen concentration camp. Sachsenhausen, Germany, 1938
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An official order incarcerating the accused in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp for committing homosexual acts.
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Survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp gather around trucks carrying American troops, food, Water and clothing. Germany, May 1945.
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Corpses stacked behind the crematorium in Buchenwald. 56,000 males died in Buchenwald and 11,000 of them were Jews.
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Buchenwald, Germany, Prisoners during a roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Their uniforms have classifying triangular badges and identification numbers. .
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View of a guard tower and fence at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Any prisoners trying to escape were shot on the spot. Escaping was a difficult task due to barbwire and guard towers surrounding the whole camp.
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Barracks in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Where many Jews slept.
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Prisoners at forced labor in the Siemens factory in Auschwitz camp, Poland, during
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Women survivors in Auschwitz huddled in a prisoner barracks shortly after Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz camp. Auschwitz, Poland, 1945.
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Main entrance to the Auschwitz killing center in Poland where at least 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz and approximately 1.1 million died there.
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Rail cars, discovered by Soviet forces, containing bundles to be shipped to Germany. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 27, 1945.
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Arrival of political prisoners at the Oranienburg concentration camp. Oranienburg, Germany
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View of barracks and the ammunition factory in one of the first photos of Dachau concentration camp. Dachau, Germany, March or April 1933
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Many of the early concentration camps were improvised. Here, roll call is held for political prisoners aboard a ship used as a floating concentration camp. Ochstumsand camp, near Bremen, Germany, 1933 or 1934.
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