Concentration Camps WW2 by Damien Santiago https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki en-us 2018-05-07 18:43:17 UTC 2026-03-15 16:17:56 UTC hello@padlet.com First Concentration Camp damien_santiago https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/258676321 The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. ]]> 2018-05-07 18:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/258676321 Jehovah's Witness damien_santiago https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259500922 Helene Gotthold, a Jehovah's Witness, was beheaded for her religious beliefs on December 8, 1944, in Berlin]]> 2018-05-10 02:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259500922 Liberation damien_santiago https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259502064 The camps were liberated by the Allied forces between 1944 and 1945. The first major camp, Majdanek, was discovered by the advancing Soviets on July 23, 1944.
]]> 2018-05-10 02:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259502064 Post-war use damien_santiago https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259502311 Though most Nazi concentration and extermination camps were destroyed after the war, some of them were turned into permanent memorials.
]]> 2018-05-10 02:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259502311 Treatment damien_santiago https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259502824 Many of the prisoners died in the concentration camps due to deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or they were executed as unfit for labor.
]]> 2018-05-10 02:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259502824 Internees damien_santiago https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259503030 The two largest groups of prisoners in the camps, both numbering in the millions, were the Polish Jews and the Soviet prisoners of war held without trial or judicial process.
]]> 2018-05-10 02:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259503030 Pre-war camps damien_santiago https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259503341 Use of the word "concentration" came from the idea of confining people in one place because they belong to a group that is considered undesirable in some way.
]]> 2018-05-10 02:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259503341 The dead damien_santiago https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259504037 U.S. Army soldiers show the German civilians of Weimarthe corpses found in Buchenwald Concentration Camp.]]> 2018-05-10 02:37:50 UTC https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259504037 Bełżec extermination damien_santiago https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259506333 Between 430,000 and 500,000 Jews are believed to have been murdered by the SS at Bełżec.]]> 2018-05-10 02:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259506333 Memorial damien_santiago https://padlet.com/damien_santiago/jmu74xooibki/wish/259507211 One of several mass graves on the site of the former camp. The sign simply reads: Here lie 5,000 dead. April 1945.
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