1) Work camps, where inmates were payed meager salaries for back breaking work.
2) Standard concentration camps where Jews were worked to death.
3) Death camps where the sole purpose was to destroy as many Jews as possible as quickly as possible.
There were about 20 Concentration Camps, but there were many sub-camps.
It's common to draw a distinction between 'ordinary' concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald, and extermination camps. The latter existed only for the purpose of killing. They are:Auschwitz II (Birkenau section)BelzecChelmnoMajdanek (part only)SobiborTreblinka IIIn addition, there were transit camps and various 'specialized' camps.
what was Hitler's purpose for sending Jews to concentration camps and what is a concentration camp.
There were many concentration camps.
There were concentration camps in the Holocaust. The concentration camps were basically work/death camps.
The key distinction was between extermination camps and labour camps ("ordinary" concentration camps).
Concentration Camps Extermination Camps Labour Camps Transit Camps Death Camps.
There were about 20 Concentration Camps, but there were many sub-camps.
It's common to draw a distinction between 'ordinary' concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald, and extermination camps. The latter existed only for the purpose of killing. They are:Auschwitz II (Birkenau section)BelzecChelmnoMajdanek (part only)SobiborTreblinka IIIn addition, there were transit camps and various 'specialized' camps.
what was Hitler's purpose for sending Jews to concentration camps and what is a concentration camp.
There were many concentration camps.
Technically all camps were within the concentration camp system, there were labour camps, transit camps and extermination camps. Concentration camps were generally intended for civillians, initially just for criminals, but gradually more types were included. Extermination camps were established about seven and a half years after the first concentration camps. They were much smaller than the average concentration camps (Auschwitz is an exception as it was both), as they only held enough inmates that were needed to opperate the gas chambers/vans and the cramatoria.
There were concentration camps in the Holocaust. The concentration camps were basically work/death camps.
Jews were generally sent to extermination camps. Many were killed on arrival, others were worked to death. Very few survived.
There were concentration camps in the Holocaust. The concentration camps were basically work/death camps.
The key disinction is between 'ordinary' concentration camps (such as Dachau or Buchenwald) and extermination camps such as Treblinka and Sobibor. The sole purpose of extermination camps was to kill. Note that Auschwitz and Majdanek combined both kinds of camps.
Their was only about 20 Major concentration camps.