What types of camps were there in Germany?

Answer 1

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:

1. Auschwitz II (Birkenau section)
2. Belzec
3. Chelmno
4. Majdanek (part only)
5. Sobibor
6. Treblinka II

In addition, there were transit camps and various 'specialized' camps.

Answer 2

There were two main types of camps created by the Nazis during the Holocaust, namely concentration camps and extermination camps.

The term for concentration camps was borrowed from the British concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. The concentration camps were placed where the enemies of the Nazis were enslaved, starved, tortured and killed. People in the concentration camps were put to work in harsh conditions. This included Jews, Soviet prisoners of wars, Gypsies, Poles, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholic clegy, Eastern European intellectuals and others like common criminals. Many prisoners died in the concentration camps due to maltreatment, disease, starvation and overwork.

The extermination camps is also known as death camps as these camps were only used to systematically kill people, mostly Jews, by gassing them. These camps were different from the concentration camps as new arrivals to these camps were immediately killed and were not put to work first. It included Chelmno, Belzec, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. Auschwitz-Birkenau was a combination of concentration and extermination camps.

Answer 3

There was 5 different types of Camps but here is 2 most common.

Concentration Camps

Extermination Camps

Answer 4

Concentration and Death Camps