Approximately how many people died in the concentration camps in WWII across Europe?
Posted: August 31st, 2010 | Author: Mitch | Filed under: Camp Sites | Tags: concentration camps in wwii, doing research, europe | 6 Comments »Im doing research and i would just like to know approximately how many people died in the concentration camps in WWII across Europe?
6 million Jews, 5 million non-Jewish nationalities (Slavs, Gypsies, captured POWs from Russia and the US, even ordinary Germans who objected)
At least six million that has been documented so the answer is probably a lot more.
total deaths in europe 52 million total deaths in WW2 75 to 100 million the Chinese cannot be accurate because some towns no longer exist since 1945
the Russians have never been able to give accurate figures of Civilian deaths
and the Germans only kept records for deaths in the camps and they had approximately 20,000 in occupied countries
some of the camps Like Jasenovaca and Sajmiste Run by Croatian Waffen SS were totally destroyed in 1944 to hide the evidence
the Records at Auschwitz Treblinka Burgen Belsen etc give accurate figures the Nazis were convicted on their own records
and the red cross Indicate that about 6 million Jews no longer existed in Europe in 1945
if you say that only one person died every day in each camp :-
20,000 camps for 4 years x 365 = 30 million and don’t forget the first death camp was opened in 1933 Dacau
Ca. 6million. som say lower, some even think it could be seven!
There were three different kind of camps (leaving aside the “hospitals” of the T4 programme) – concentration camps, extermination camps and forced labour camps. The total deaths in all types of camp is generally accepted as being around the 11.5 million mark, the largest group of these being the Jews at around 6 million.
Previous posters have kind of got it locked down, but I know that at least 6 million Jewish people died and 5 million other "non-perfect" people died (gypsies, homosexuals, Africans).
I hope this helped. I didn’t go more in depth because this guy above me has a really incredible answer.