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Nazi concentration camp in Austria (1938–1945)
Historians distinguish a small number of purpose-built extermination camps where mass gassing was the central mechanism—Auschwitz‑Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibór, Belzec, Chełmno and Majdanek—and multipl...
Archival records supporting the commonly cited figure of about six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust come from multiple, independent documentary streams: captured Nazi paperwork (including Wannse...
Extensive primary-source evidence — Nazi administrative records, camp registers, death lists, photographs, survivor and perpetrator testimony, and Allied liberation reports — documents the system of c...
Nazi camps used Zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide) widely as a purpose-adapted killing agent at Auschwitz and Majdanek, and smaller camps also had Zyklon B chambers . Available sources discuss other camps an...
Primary-source documentary evidence for Nazi mass murder includes captured camp registers and “death books,” Nazi administrative orders and correspondence, trial exhibits and interrogations, liberator...
The snapshot—seeing prisoners working, eating, or talking—does not overturn the overwhelming historical record that were sites of systemic brutality, , starvation, disease, medical torture, and . Isol...
Swimming-pool–like reservoirs did exist in several Nazi camps, but their primary function was utilitarian (firefighting or water storage) and access varied widely: in many documented cases the facilit...
Nazi concentration camp records are primary documentary evidence that directly document many individual deaths and administrative actions, and they form an essential pillar in verifying Holocaust deat...