The Holocaust

In June 1933 the Nazis in Germany opened the first concentration camp. When the war ended and the Third Reich had fallen, over 13 millon people had been murded in the concentration- and extermination camps or by other means possible. They died in gas chambers, were execluded or starved to death. The victims consisted of 5.3-6.3 million jews, 2.5 millon Christian Poles, 3.3 million Soviet POWs, and up to half a million gypsies, forced laborers, homosexuals or handicapped.


Source: Aftonbladet

Hadamar
Erected: 1939
Victims: A minimum of 120.000
on this and other centers.
Misc: In this camp handicapped and people considered "not fit for work" as well as mentally retarded were gassed to death. Hadamar was one out of six centers built for the so called "mercy killings".

Dachau
Erected: 1933
Victims: 30-40.000
Misc: This was the first  concentration camp. Was built to hold 5.000 political prisoners.

Auschwitz, Polen
In use: 1940-Januari 1945
Victims: appr. appr. 1million
Misc: The camp was in 1942 made the center of the Holoaust. JEws in lage masses were deportated to the camp. THose who were not "fit for work" was gassed and burned to death.

Ravensbrück
In use: 1943-1945
Victims: appr. 92.000
Misc: Was built mainly for females. Prisoners were killed right up to April of 1945. At the same time prisoners were leaving the camp in the white Red Cross buses from Sweden.


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Chelmno, Poland
In use: 1941-44
Victims: over 150.000
Misc: Specially "sealed vans", commonly known as "gas vans" were used to commit the mass murders. The exhaust fumes were led back into the vehicle where the people suffocated to death. Probably only three persons survived Chelmno.

Sobibor, Poland
In use: 1942-1943
Victims: appr. 250.000
Misc: To Sobibor arrived Jews from Soviet Union, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Mass murders were executed using exhaust fumes. Only a handful (10) survived Sobibor

Majdanek, Poland
In use: 1941-June 1944
Victims: appr. 125.000
Misc: Was initially built for Soviet POWs and Jews fit for work. During 1943 several thousand SS-men execute the mass murder of most of the Jewish prisoners, in total over 30.000 inmates.

Treblinka, Poland
In use: 1942-1943
Victims: appr. 900.000
Misc: To this Camp came mainly Jews from Polen. All the Camps buildings were designed for the purpose of killing the prisoners. In 1942 the camp was overcrovded and people that had been gassed to death lay in stacks everywhere. 

Belzec, Poland
In use: March 1942-June 1943
Victims: appr. 600.000
Misc: With six gas chambers the execution rate was 5.000 a day. The corpses were placed in mass graves but had to be to be dug up and burned. Two people managed to escape and by doing so survived.