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Question by Mimzy1989: What was a worse place to be – a Soviet Gulag or a Nazi concentration camp?
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Answer by brendan y.
i’ll go with concentration camp…at least there would have been a chance of getting saved from the allies. there is zero chance of anyone trying to save you from a gulag, you could try to escape, but where are you going to go, you’re thousands of miles from any sign of civilization
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Cabal says
They were both just as bad, unless you mean a nazi death camp in which case I'll have to say the death camp.
West Side says
By 1945 over 250,000 German POWs had been sent to the Siberian Gulags. In 1954 the survivors were returned to Germany but there were only 5,000 by then
The Germans treated Russian POWS harshly so it was tit for tat.
handymanmike says
Wow, what a question…sort of like asking which tastes worse, dirt or mud? Whats the point anyway?
I would have to say the gulags were worse though, because there one was worked to death, whereas in the concentration camps one was pretty much left to starve and die…some choice huh?
Jim says
During world war 2, you probably would have lasted longer in one of Stalin's gulags, but it might still be a life sentence. Many POW's never got out, and some of the best and brightest of Eastern Europe disappeared into the Gulag system after WW2.
Concentration camps were killing machines. People survived by sheer will and a lot of luck. Millions were murdered and starved and worked to death. I walked through Auschwitz in the winter of 94 and I was cold to the bone though I was wearing warm clothing. During the war, the prisoners were given thin cotton to wear.
It took a miracle to escape either place.
Gabi the Goat says
The people in a Gulag were abused by their own leadership – very often they did not know why and the charges that sentenced them were made up.
Those in Nazi concentration camps had not committed crimes, except as being people whose own existence challenged an autocracy – like Jews, Homosexuals and the Disabled.
Both the gulags and the concentration camps were crimes against the people in them and against humanity. I dont think its possible to distinguish which was "worse." Imagine being persecuted by your own country, in your own country, simply for being You?