Majdanek



The Majdanek concentration camp is located in an entirely open area with no ten-foot wall around it to hide the activities inside the camp, as at Dachau. There was no security zone established around the Majdanek camp, as at Birkenau, and there is no natural protection, such as a river or a forest, as at Treblinka. Besides being bounded on the north by a busy main road, the camp was bounded on the south by two small villages named Abramowic and Dziesiata. People driving past the camp, while it was in operation, had a completely unobstructedview, being able to see the tall brick chimney of the crematorium wafting smoke from the top of a slope not far away, and the gas chamber building which is a few yards from a busy street. media type="youtube" key="UKkGGuvQ0IU" height="349" width="425" This was just one of the many death camps Hitler used for the desruction of the jews.

-When the soviets liberated the deathcamp, the Germans tried to destroy evidence of what they did there before they fled west away from the Soviets. They Nazi's took with them many prisoners on a death march although thousands were still left behind when red army liberated the camp. The camp was left intact when the Soviets arrived the crematorium being the only thing destroyed before the German SS fled.