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1
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Outline the significance of Auschwitz [4 points]

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Established in 1940 with 728 polish prisoners
870,000 jews murdererd (most)
Many slave labourers survived
On liberation the camps machinery was intact

2
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What was stage one of the concentration camps?

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1933-36

3
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What was stage two of the concentration camps?

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1936-39

4
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What was stage three of the concentration camps?

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1939-41

5
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What was stage four of the concentration camps?

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The war 1939-45

6
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Outline stage one of the concentration camps [4 points]

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  • focus on political opposition
  • 200,000 arrests
  • 170 detention homes in berlin
  • Dachau, what will be used as the model camp
7
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Outline stage two of the concentration camps [4 points]

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  • campaign against asocials
  • expansion of the camp system - more built
  • introduction of widespread markings on prisoner uniforms
  • jews come into picture
8
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Outline stage three of the concentration camps

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  • stepping up with repression of the enemy within
  • subjugation of conquered peoples
  • slave labour sysyem
9
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Outline stage four of the concentration camps [3 points]

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  • occupation of poland - 3millions jews
  • invasion of ussr - 4 million jews
  • ss given control of jewish question in 1939, no plans to exterminate before 1941