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After the outbreak of the
World War II the main Nazis aim was to settle down
on the conquered Polish land. To this end from the beginning
of the war the Nazis applied displacement and the politics
of slaying Poles and Jews, who lived in this land. The
politics called name Holocaust. Colonisation and Germanisation
on the conquered territory was equal with terror in
relation to local people. Simultaneously with the extermination
of Poles there were carried out actions against the
Jews. Jews' situation was especially hard. Germans put
all Jews into ghettos. Hunger, epidemics and mass terror
were the cause of high mortality in ghettos. Since 1942,
together  with
the German plot of extermination of the all Jews, so
- called 'dissolution of the Jews' problem - Endlosung',
the situation of Jews was tragic. The Nazis started
to liquidation all ghettos and the Jews were taken away
to death or concentration camps. The Nazis concentration
camps, alongside with Stalinist's 'labour camps' were
the place of the most terrible genocide in humankind
history. 11 million people were murdered there. During
1939 - 1945 there were 9 thousand camps on the territory
of the Third Reich and the occupied territory. The first
concentration camp was established in 1933 in Dachau
and the next camps were built very fast. At first Nazis
put there anti - nazis, communists, bandits and Jews.
Since
1939, the Nazis built concentration camps on the occupied
territory, mostly in Poland. Prisoners were forced to
hard work in inhuman conditions. Terrible conditions
of life, brutal warders, no doctor's protection, emaciation,
starvation and cruel punishment caused very high mortality
among the prisoners. In these camps there took place
mass executions and cruel, inhuman medical experiments.
Since 1941 large parts of the concentration camps were
changed into death camps. On the Polish occupied territory
there were death camps in the following places: Chelmno,
Sobibor, Treblinka and Belzec.
But the largest death camps existed in the concentration
camps, in Auschwitz
and Majdanek. In order to
extermination a lot of people in a short time, the Nazis
built gas chambers. Dead bodies were burnt in special
furnaces or in crematories. In the largest death camps
- Auschwitz - Birkenau
- during the day and night the Nazis murdered 20 thousand
people. Furthermore the German applied gas chambers
in cars where people were killed by the exhausted fumes.
The
Nazis concentration and death camps were places in which
the Nazis tried to annihilate all nations, and first
of all the Jews. Nowadays these camps are available
for tourists as museums to warn people in the future.
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