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What was the overall theme of the death camps?
The purpose was the 'Final Solution' - death.
Did the Jews know were they where going in 1941?
No. Most Jews were unaware of the existence and purpose of the Concentration Camps and the Death Camps.
What is the purpose of the Warsaw Ghetto?
to kill jews and put them in concentration camps and also to hold them until they finished building the death camps.
What was the difference between concetrantion camps and death camps?
Death camps had the facilities to commit mass murder, they also had limited barracks as they did not house many inmates (Auschwitz was the exception as it was both).
Purpose of Warsaw Ghetto?
to hold the Jews until they finished building the death camps
How many types of concentration camps are there?
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.
What were death or extermination camps?
Death and Extermination Camps were Self Purposed Camps which were mainly intended to kill a lot of people, Camps like Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec were Camps which had a sole purpose of kill as much people as possible but also the most efficient. These camps had a average death rate f at least 15,000 People a month. Auschwitz was the exception; it operated as both a death camp and a concentration camp. Also with its sub-camps was the largest supplier of labour in the camp system.
Were created during World War 2 by the Nazis for the purpose of mass murder?
Extermination (Death) Camps
Why did they called it concentration camps instead of death camps?
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
What different category of Holocaust camps were there?
During the holocaust their was onlya small type of camps Concentration camps - Camps where is to just keep people and torturing them to concentrate them. Extermination camps - Camps where it only main purpose to to Exterminate people asmuch as possible Death camps - Same as a Extermination camp but only Kills people less frequently Labour camps - A camp which is only main purpose is to use prisoners as slave labour workers POW camps - Camps for Prisoners of War
What was he difference between concentration camps and death camps?
Death camps were built to kill prisoners systematically
What is the proper name for death camps?
The term death camps (in the Holocaust) refers mainly to extermination camps. Sometimes the very harshest concentration camps (Grade 3, such as Mauthausen) are also called death camps.
