HOLOCAUST EXPERIMENTS & CONCENTRATION CAMPS

NAZI CAMPS

CAMPS

• The Nazis began to build death camps
• Held socialists, communists, and other political prisoners
• They sent many people to gas chambers to be gassed

BUCHENWALD

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• 1950 the camp was abandoned after Germany surrendered
• It held Jews, Poles & Gypsies
• Prisons were forced to work at near by factories

DACHAU

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• Dachau was the 1st permanent concentration camp set up by the Nazi’s. It became a model for other camps. Johavah’s wittnesses, Gypsies, homosexuals & criminals were also kept there besides Jews.
• German doctors performed cruel medical experiments on many prisoners. Thousands of otherprisoners as forced laborers in and around the camp.
• As allies closed in on Germany the nazi’s took prisoners away from the front lines to camps deeper within Germany. A typhus epidemic swept through the camp. At least 28,000 prisoners were murdered or died of disease. More than 32,000 prisoners were liberated from the camp on April 29,1945

CITATIONS

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• Engel, David. "Concentration camp." World Book Student, World Book, 2018, www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar128020. Accessed 11 May 2018.
• Sydnor, Charles W., Jr. "Dachau." World Book Student, World Book, 2018, www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar146260. Accessed 11 May 2018.