Holocaust camps

Holocaust camps refer to various concentration camps allegedly involved in the Holocaust.

Definition

Concentration camps were typically used to concentrate and control, and were usually situated away from urban areas, where barrack-style buildings are erected for accommodating as a temporary residence for detainees, non-violent prisoners and labourers. .

The British were the first to have such camps, during the South African Wars, when tens of thousands of civilians perished in them. Today they still have such camps in the UK which are euphemistically called 'Open Prisons' for category 'D' prisoners (a category which does not exist on the continent).

The Soviet Union maintained a huge network of brutal concentration camps (gulags) across the country where millions perished.

Different types of camps

There are several different types of concentration camps (the same camp may have several of these functions simultaneously):

• Prison camps for convicted prisoners.
• Prison camps for political prisoners.
• POW camps for prisoners of war.
• Labour camps typically used for forced labour. (The Gulag camp system in the Soviet Union was one example.)
• Transit camps are used for purposes such as very temporary residence, while awaiting further relocation.

Alleged National Socialist extermination camps

[[File:WW2-Holocaust-Europe.png|thumb|320px|right|Map depicting the location of the Holocaust camps and the now "standardized" politically correct view on the Holocaust as a deliberate genocide: Jews and some other groups are claimed to have been transported from different parts of Europe to so-called extermination camps in Poland. Gas (the delousing agent Zyklon B or carbon monoxide) was said to have been used to kill groups packed into 'gas chambers'. Some are claimed to have been temporarily spared, in order to be used as forced laborers, but many of these died quickly due to harsh conditions. In addition, it is claimed that many were killed by the mobile Einsatzgruppen in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, by methods such as mass shootings and gas vans.

Notably, it is no longer claimed that there were mass extermination camps using gas chambers in Germany itself, despite this being "proven" during the Nuremberg trials and "documented" with even today often shown photographs and films of heaps of corpses, who had actually died of causes such as typhus (usually these pictures and films are from Belsen and simply repeatedly used for all camps). Also many other early descriptions of the Holocaust differ widely and contradictorily from the particular version that is now the "standardized" politically correct view. The most notable alleged National Socialist alleged extermination camps were six camps located in Poland:

• Auschwitz II (Birkenau) - allegedly a combined extermination/forced labor camp that used the delousing agent Zyklon B for gas killings. Revisionists argue that it was a combined concentration/forced labor/transit camp and that it makes no sense to erect buildings to house 200,000 and more people (the size of a city) if the intention was to murder them.

• Majdanek - allegedly a combined extermination/forced labor camp that used Zyklon B, carbon monoxide, and mass shootings for killings. Revisionist argue that it was a combined concentration/forced labor/transit camp.

• Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka - allegedly pure extermination camps that used carbon monoxide for killings. Revisionists argue that they were transit camps.

• Chelmno - allegedly used gas vans for killings. Revisionist argue that it was a transit camp.

In addition, some other camps are sometimes also alleged to have been (in part) alleged extermination camps such as

• Maly Trostenets (White Russia),
• Risiera di San Sabba (Italy),
• Sajmište (Serbia), and
• Stutthof (West Prussia).

The Jasenovac camp in Croatia was not operated by National Socialist Germany but by the Ustaše government.

Western Holocaust camps

Various western Holocaust camps in Germany were earlier alleged to have been large scale extermination camps. These claims have today been largely abandoned. Revisionists have argued that the claims regarding non-German extermination camps relies on evidence not substantially different from that which was earlier claimed to support the existence of large scale extermination camps in Germany.

Holocaust ghettos

See Holocaust ghettos.

Tens of thousands of additional camps and ghettos "discovered"

See Holocaust demographics: Tens of thousands of additional camps and ghettos "discovered".

Revisionists views

See Holocaust motivations: Holocaust revisionist views on motivations for the camps and deportations and Holocaust demographics regarding general revisionist views on the alleged extermination camps and their demographics. See also the "External links" section.

See also

• Concentration camp
• Danzig-Matzkau: a German prison camp for SS personnel, who committed crimes against their oath, including against prisoners in the Holocaust camps, likely completely unknown to the general public as a not politically correct Nazi camp.

External links

Article archives

• Codoh: Camps
• Codoh: Living conditions