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Nazi concentration camps - Quiz
Nazi concentration camps
  • 1. When did Nazi Germany operate its concentration camp system?
A) 1933-1945
B) 1939-1945
C) 1914-1918
D) 1933-1939
  • 2. Which organization ran the concentration camps after the 1934 purge of the SA?
A) The Communist Party
B) The Wehrmacht
C) The Gestapo
D) The SS
  • 3. When were the first concentration camps established?
A) June 1941
B) March 1933
C) September 1939
D) January 1933
  • 4. What was the primary purpose of the extermination camps created from 1941 onward?
A) Re-education
B) Military training
C) Systematic murder
D) Forced labor
  • 5. Approximately how many people were registered prisoners in the camps?
A) 700,000
B) 10 million
C) 1.65 million
D) 500,000
  • 6. How many registered prisoners died during their imprisonment?
A) 200,000
B) 1.65 million
C) About a million
D) 50,000
  • 7. Who were the primary prisoners in the camps initially?
A) Soldiers of the Red Army
B) Members of the Communist Party of Germany
C) Prisoners of war
D) Members of the SS
  • 8. What was a ubiquitous feature of the Nazi camps?
A) Frequent release of inmates
B) Legal representation
C) Forced labor
D) Democratic elections
  • 9. What term did the British coin in the early 20th century regarding camps?
A) Prisoner of war camp
B) Extermination camp
C) Internment center
D) Concentration camp
  • 10. Which event saw the use of camps that involved systematic murder prior to the Nazi era?
A) Boer War
B) Herero and Nama genocide
C) Armenian genocide
D) First World War
  • 11. How did Nazi propaganda depict camp prisoners to the German public?
A) As political heroes
B) As innocent victims
C) As dangerous criminals
D) As foreign tourists
  • 12. When did the majority of camp fatalities occur?
A) During the 1930s
B) First half of World War II
C) Second half of World War II
D) Immediately after the war
  • 13. What happened to hundreds of thousands of prisoners during the liberation period?
A) They were sent to work in factories
B) They were immediately freed
C) They were repatriated to their home countries
D) They died in death marches
  • 14. Which document was violated by Germany during WWI regarding the treatment of prisoners?
A) 1907 Hague Convention
B) United Nations Charter
C) Treaty of Versailles
D) Geneva Convention
  • 15. Which group was NOT mentioned as being arrested for the camps as time progressed?
A) Jews
B) Government officials
C) Asocials
D) Habitual criminals
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