Time for a Quiz.

[Jack the collector]

I like to ask this question whenever I discuss WW2 with anyone.So here is a little quiz.Yes it requires some detective work.

How many Death camps were there in Germany and the occupied territories?

[Jim O]

Define death camp please. Do you mean ones specifically designed for implementing "The Final Solution" like Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) or do you include more "generic" concentration camps like Mathausen, Buchenwald, and Dachau.

If you mean the strict "extermination camp" I would list the following eight:

1. Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau)
2. Chelmno
3. Treblinka
4. Belzec
5. Majdanek
6. Sobibór
7. Jasenovac
8. Maly Trostenets

[Jack the collector]

Jim, Death camps,Extermination camps,and any other name we may associate with them is exactly what I meant.We do tend to lose context here in cyber space.Literal wording is what I try to put on these boards.Concentration camps are not in the same definition.Let a few more answers come in the lets see what discussion can come of it.

[Klaus]

Have a look at this:

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp....MVIuG&b=394731

Thats what we are looking for?

[Klaus]

Come on! Anybody? I want an answer!

[Jack the collector]

Well guys and gals,the nature of my job has me away for days and weeks on end.I am able to look at the site but unable to post sometimes......it depends on where I am.

This is a subject that boils down to semantics and opinion.Jim has in my humble opinion one too many.There were 7,Maly Trostenets being the least known and recognised.Jasenovac,was a KZ camp and really fell into that limbo between the 2 actually,just as Dachau does.My list is:

Auschwitz II
Maly Trostenets
Sobibor
Madjanek
Treblinka
Belzek
Chelmno

[Klaus]

Damn it! That stupid Link doesn't work correctly anymore! So these are the death camps. Only 7? I thought there were more. But I propably mixed in some labour-camps.

[Jack the collector]

Klaus,

Link is working for me.It only list a few of the hundreds of camps.The thing one has to remember is that there were basically four types of detention camps in the 3rd Reich and occupied territories.

1- Concentration Camps
2- Ghettos
3- Death Camps
4- Labour Camps(Dora falls into this category)

Indeed one was as bad as the other,the purpose's were different.

If your really interested in this subject Klaus,a good book to get is Historical Atlas of the Holocaust by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

[Klaus]

As you may have noticed I am not an expert on that subject. But I wouldn't call a Ghetto a camp. The deathrate surley is much smaller in a Ghetto than in one of the camps?

[Jim O]

Originally Posted by Klaus

As you may have noticed I am not an expert on that subject. But I wouldn't call a Ghetto a camp. The deathrate surley is much smaller in a Ghetto than in one of the camps?

Until the SS decided to "liquidate" it.