over 9000
Yes, prisoners at the Flossenbürg concentration camp were tattooed. In many concentration camps, including Flossenbürg, prisoners were marked with a series of numbers as a means of identification. These tattoos were typically placed on the prisoner's forearm.
Prisoners in concentration camps were often forced to work long hours, typically ranging from 10 to 16 hours a day, under brutal conditions. The exact hours varied depending on the camp and the type of labor required, but the work was grueling and relentless, with little regard for the health or safety of the inmates. Many prisoners were subjected to exhaustion, malnutrition, and harsh treatment, leading to high mortality rates.
The Allies liberated many Nazi and Axis concentration camps in World War Two.The prisoners of war were sent to concentration camps.
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Back in 1940, there were five concentration camps in Germany. These camps were established to eradicate resistance groups, political prisoners, racial groups of the Jews and Roma.
The Jews were prisoners in the concentration camps, not employees. The concept of bathroom breaks does not apply.
The groups that were sent to the concentration camps during the holocaust were Jews, Roma (gypsies), homosexuals, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses and many others.
In concentration camps, the prisoners usually died due to maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork. Many died in rail freight cars before even reaching the camp.
The size of concentration camps varied greatly across Europe. There were many concentration camps in Germany, the most well-known being Auschwitz. Auschwitz had over 100 thousand prisoners, but other concentration camps had as many as 1 thousand prisoners to tens of thousands.
On the Axis side many prisoners of war were sent to work camps, concentration camps, or stockades based on race, color, or religion. On the Allied side prisoners of war were ether sent to camps in the US. or in camps through out the British empire based on war the fighting was going on.
Yes, it was another way to assert dominance over the prisoners, there were many rules about the use of them and there were severe punishments for prisoners without a hat. Prisoners would hold their hats tightly when asleep as not to lose them.
Concentration camps, originally designed to hold political prisoners, eventually were used to hold Jews, Soviet prisoners, Gypsies, Poles, left of center political prisoners, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, common criminals, etc. Many people in all of these groups were either killed or worked to death, but probably the Jews and the Soviets suffered the greatest number of casualties.