Concentration camps of the Second World War

Since the beginning of the Second World War, Nazi Germany has taken a political course toward the mass destruction of civilians, especially Jewish nationality. So "death squads" were eliminated about a million people. Somewhat later, massacres began, and concentration camps appeared in which people were deprived of medicine and nutrition. Concentration camps of the Second World War were built to systematically kill a large number of people. They built gas chambers, crematoriums, laboratories for conducting medical experiments.

The first of them were built in 1933, and a year later the SS troops took over the leadership over them.

Thus, large concentration camps were established in Germany: Buchenwald, Majdanek, Salaspils, Ravensbrück, Dachau and Auschwitz.

1. Buchenwald (men's camp) - was intended to isolate anti-fascists. Outside the gates of the camp one could see the area for construction, the interrogation cell, the office, barracks (52 main) for prisoners, and a quarantine zone and a crematorium where people were killed. Here the prisoners worked at a factory manufacturing weapons. In this place brought Poles, Soviet citizens, Dutch, Czechs, Hungarians and Jews.

Concentration camps of the Second World War had a group of laboratory assistants, who set up experiments on prisoners. Thus, it was in Buchenwald that a vaccine for typhus was developed.

In 1945, prisoners of the camps carried out an uprising, captured fascists and took the leadership into their own hands. We can say that they saved themselves, because an order was already issued to destroy all the prisoners.

2. Majdanek - was intended for Soviet prisoners of war. The camp had five sections (one of them - female). People disposed of the gas in the disinfection cell, after which the corpses were taken to the crematorium, which was located in the third compartment.

In this camp, the prisoners worked at a factory that was making outfits and at a factory that produced weapons.

In 1944, as a result of the Soviet offensive, the Majdanek concentration camp ceased to exist.

3. Concentration camps of the Second World War included the children's camp of Salaspils. Here the children were kept in isolation, they were deprived of care. Experiments were conducted on them, the so-called factory of children's blood was organized by the fascists.

To date, this place is a memorial.

4. Ravensbrück - was originally intended for the maintenance of women of German women, so-called criminals, but later there were people of different nationalities.

In the camp, medical experiments were conducted to study sulfanilamide preparations. Somewhat later, bone transplantation was started here, the possibility of restoring muscles, nerves and bones was studied.

In 1945, the Soviet Army began evacuation of the camp.

5. Concentration camps of the Second World War included Dachau. This camp was intended for the maintenance of people who, according to racial theory, polluted the Aryan nation. Here the prisoners worked at the enterprise "IG Farbenindustriya".

This camp is considered the most ominous of all known, it was conducted experiments on people whose purpose was to study the ability to control human behavior, and also examined the impact of malaria on the body.

In 1945, the underground organization of the camp organized an uprising and thwarted the plan to eliminate all prisoners.

6. Auschwitz (Auschwitz) - was intended for the maintenance of political prisoners. The camp had a heel yard, thirteen blocks, each of which had its own purpose, a gas chamber and a crematorium.

In 1943, a resistance group was formed here, which helped prisoners escape.

Thus, the German concentration camps of the Second World War strike with their cruelty. For all of their existence, a large number of people, including children, have died in them.