Majdanek – Nazi concentration camp
Journal Title: Eminak - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The article focuses on the functioning of one of the Nazi concentration camps in occupied Poland, which for the Jews was the death camp. Attention is focused on the causes and stages of camp, staff functions, the living conditions of prisoners and their system of penalties, methods of mass destruction and concealment of traces of the crimes, the reasons for the elimination of the camp, liberation by Soviet troops, followed the fate of the camp staff. The findings indicated that Majdanek simultaneously perform different functions: forced labor, punitive, liquidations. Through it passed the hundreds of thousands of people, but only the Jews (both civilian and prisoners of war) were exterminated en masse and purposefully. Other categories of prisoners die under different circumstances, as a rule, as a waste and no longer need human material Reich, while not falling under the compulsory liquidation. Therefore, their survival depended on them: physical and morale, motivation to stay alive at all costs, personal connections with the camp personnel.
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Maryna Mykhailiuk
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