How were Stalin's death camps different from Hitler's?

We also know that, as in the early 1930s, the main victims were the peasants, many of them survivors of hunger and of concentration camps. The highest Soviet authorities ordered 386,798 people shot in the “Kulak Operation” of 1937–1938. read more

The intent was different. In Hilter’s death camps, the main intent was to kill people - any labor done there was just a side effect. Most people were killed immediately after getting off the train, with no attempt to put them to work. read more

Adolf Hitler was the Nazi leader of Germany during World War II, and Joseph Stalin was the Communist leader of the Soviet Union during World War II. Though both men were harsh dictators, the ideologies they functioned under were different. read more

The USSR was a one party system but there were members of Stalin's own Bolshevik party who did not like the policies that stalin developted Hitler disliked the communist party in Germany as they were seen as weak and cowards. read more