World War II

[Balikesir]

How or where can I find data on people killed in Nazi concentration camps by ethnicity?

[chris-n-vick]

one possible source for information could be http://www.yadvashem.org/

[Peter Pedant]

there were quite a few books printed on this subject in the sixties - including a very thick Penguin, either by Russell, Trevor Roper or AJ P Taylor.

It's basically six million Jews and six million others -bear in mind that the Russians say they lost 26 m in the war with the Germans - which they call the Great Patriotic War.

SInce then there has been a lot of memory, misunderstanding and so on. My brother who has no particular axe to grind asked me -how did Dad escape from the concentration camp, peter? I said, easy paul, he wasnt in one, he was in a POW camp. And you know Balikesir if the children of the people involved cant get it right, what hope have you?

The Spanish are very keen on the 'dos cien deportados' (200 Spanish policiticals) who were released in in 1945 having spent an interesting ten years in various camps. [Fled from Franco, settled in France, interned by Vichy and ended up in Mauthausen]

Today's DT has Deedes talking about Bremen, where in 1945 he had to control the aftermath of two large camps 30 000 each. Blimey - my father's in April 45 was the converted stadium at Nuremberg and had 100 000.

In the East - the germans pioneered the concept of prison cities - you conquer a city and build a wall around it, and control who goes in and out, and it basically becomes a large prison. Lwow, I think ended up as one.

anyway good luck....

[smee.tracey]

Mr Pedant, we once again bow to you