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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.
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.
Last edited by Azrael; Nov 9, 2008 at 06:03 PM.
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Surely they did in many places. I have seen similar footage from camps liberated by US Forces. They had to prevent spread of diseases. They didn't know what to do with those camps anyway, as people were dying still some months after liberation.
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