Until November 1938 the concentration camps were primarily for:
Often people who had given personal offence to Nazi party bosses were sent there too.
-Jews
-Soviet POWS
-American POWS
-Ethnic poles
-Romani
-Negro's
Mentally retarded
-Disabled people
-Slovenes
-Freemason
-Homosexuals
-Ethnic Serbs
-Left wing politicians
-Slavs
-Ethnic Slovenes
Mainly Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and some black people were killed.
Jews
Blacks
Gypsies
Homosexuals
Jehovah-Witnesses
Catholics
The disabled
Jews, Homosexuals, Handicaps and the mentaly disabled.
concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
No, kids were only at women's camps, at extermination camps, or in a few cases at concentration camps for children and young people.
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
Ordinary concentration camps were not secret. Only the small number of extermination camps were secret.
concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
No, kids were only at women's camps, at extermination camps, or in a few cases at concentration camps for children and young people.
Ghettos, concentration camps and extermination camps.
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
Hitler was very racist and did not like Jews or people of darker skin. he made various concentration and extermination camps around Europe.
Ordinary concentration camps were not secret. Only the small number of extermination camps were secret.
Dachau and Ravensbruch <><><><> There were more than 40 Concentration camps, including 11 that were extermination camps.
Two extermination camps (not ordinary concentration camps) were closed after revolts: Treblinka and Sobibor.
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.
The extermination camps were top secret.
A Concentration camp was used to torture or force their prisoners to work. An extermination camp was where they were all systematically murdered in mass quantities, and in horrific ways. (An extermination camp was also known as a death camp.) I hope this helps you.