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Originally Posted by
cossie604
When I was at school, one of the girls in my class brought a load of photos in that her grandad had taken when they liberated a prison of war camp, it was for a project or something she was doing. In those photo's there was also a bull dozer, would it be the same camp or were all camps run the same way?
There were different kinds of camps:
-death camps - like Auschwitz - there were over a dozen in Germany and occupied Poland -> with gas chambers, buldozers, crematoria etc.
-labour camps - similar but with actual work for the prisoners (probably as deadly as gas chamber this work as well) also a dozen of these
-the "Offlag" - the caps for captive enemy (allied) officers (I don't think they gave Russian officers the privilage though) - these were similar to such camps elsewhere with Red Cross control etc.
-the "Stallag" - the camps for captive soldiers (similarily AFAIR russian soldiers were generally treated worse) - somewhat worse then officer camps, sometimes thy subjected the soldiers to hard labour which was agains geneva conventions, but apart from that nothing similar to death or labour camps.