The death toll was highest at the extermination camps: * Auschwitz (group) - at least 1.1 million * Trelinka - 850,000 + * Belzec - 434,508 Jews plus an unknown number of gypsies The camp with the highest death rate (that is smallest number of known survivors) was Belzec, with only two (!) known survivors. Treblinka, with only about 120 survivors would rank next.
According to research reports, Nazis actually set up 20 000 concentration camps.
Death Camps: Hitler created the camps so he could quietly and efficiently kill the Jewish population. Concentration Camps: Used as a sort of prison by the Nazis for the duration of the war. They imprisoned people who committed "crimes" against the Nazi regime.
The boss of the Nazi terror apparatus was Himmler.
The Nazi death camps was put into use after the occupation of Poland in 1939. After the Nazis had Jews, poles and other groups of people who were procecuted by the Nazis. Nazis wanted to kill all the Jews and any Non-Aryan Germans, so they decided to establish bunch of Death camps and Extermination camps.
The largest Nazi Death Camp by number of kills is Auschwtz with other 1.25 million Jews dead.
According to research reports, Nazis actually set up 20 000 concentration camps.
Auschwitz-Birkenau (the Auschwitz group of camps).
Poland
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Death Camps: Hitler created the camps so he could quietly and efficiently kill the Jewish population. Concentration Camps: Used as a sort of prison by the Nazis for the duration of the war. They imprisoned people who committed "crimes" against the Nazi regime.
The boss of the Nazi terror apparatus was Himmler.
The Schutzstaffel (SS).
Death camps were the Nazi's way to eliminate those who did not fit their mold. In all, there were seven death camps located in Europe.
The Nazi death camps was put into use after the occupation of Poland in 1939. After the Nazis had Jews, poles and other groups of people who were procecuted by the Nazis. Nazis wanted to kill all the Jews and any Non-Aryan Germans, so they decided to establish bunch of Death camps and Extermination camps.
The concentration camps wass ran by the Leader of the SS Heinrich Himmler
All over germany
the last gassing was in December 1944.