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concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
No. Historians distiguish between #1 extermination campsand #2 ordinary concentration camps. The extermination camps were killing centres and served no other function and had very few survivors. Conditions at concentration camps varied and many inmates survived.Please see the related question.
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:Auschwitz II (Birkenau section)BelzecChelmnoMajdanek (part only)SobiborTreblinka IIIn addition, there were transit camps and various 'specialized' 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.
Concentration Camps Transit Camps Labour Camps Death Camps Extermination Camps.
concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
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.
Ghettos, concentration camps and extermination camps.
No. Historians distiguish between #1 extermination campsand #2 ordinary concentration camps. The extermination camps were killing centres and served no other function and had very few survivors. Conditions at concentration camps varied and many inmates survived.Please see the related question.
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:Auschwitz II (Birkenau section)BelzecChelmnoMajdanek (part only)SobiborTreblinka IIIn addition, there were transit camps and various 'specialized' 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.
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.
The extermination camps were top secret.