Answer this question… Both served as prisons for people the Nazis saw as dangerous or inferior.
The extermination camps were top secret.
The extermination camps were all in Poland after Germany invaded them. The main extermination camp was the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp near Krakow, Poland.
There were many concentration camps all over Europe, but most were concentrated in Poland, Germany and around Yugoslavia. The six extermination camps were all located in Poland, those being Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz, Maidanek and Belzec.
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
Nazi Germany created the extermination camps on occupied Polish territory. (Germany had invaded Poland in September 1939).
Germany's concentration camps in WW2, although not all were used in that way when final solution went into effect.
The extermination camps were run by the SS.
concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
one of the most common camps that he Jews would be sent to was Auschwitz but there were many more in places in Germany.
All the main extermination camps were in Nazi-occupied Poland. There were also two in Belarus. Please see the related question.
He never went to any extermination camps.
One inspiration for these camps was, believe it or not, the systematic extermination of Native Americans from America by the Whites who colonized it.