they were camps where people were put to work.
What the people did in the minning camps was, Gather to collect gold, and as for the women and children, they cooked and ect.
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Most thought they were simply work camps and they were being relocated and not the full story.
Children did not work in the camps.
They dug soil
In a concentration camp, people are forced to work against their own will. The main purpose for most concentration camps was to place a large chunk of people in a confined area, just to get them out of the general population.
The weak, the old and children were gassed as soon as practical after arrival at the extermination camps.
Because they killed people or put them to work until they did die.
Concentration camps , transit camps , forced labour camps (aka) "work 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).
There were about 20 Concentration Camps, but there were many sub-camps.