The first Nazi extermination camp - that is a 'killing facility', designed to kill prisoners as soon as practical after arrival (usually within 12- 48 hours after arrival) - was Chelmno, which began routine mass gassings on 8 December 1941. Most of the extermination camps began operation from March 1942 on/
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The first extermination camp was Chelmno, which became operational on 8 December 1941.
(The first ordinary, permanent concentration camp was Dachau, which opened on 22 March 1933).
The first extermination camp was Chelmno, which opened on an experimental basis in November 1941. The others opened in 1942.
They were all set up in 1941-42, starting with Chelmno, which started carrying out routine mass gassings on 8 December 1941.
22 March 1933 saw the opening of Dachau concentration camp, amid much media publicity.
Chelmno, which was the first Nazi extermination camp, began routine mass gassings on 8 December 1941. (There had been some earlier experimental gassings at Auschwitz).
Opened in 1940 as a detention center for political prisoners
In the extermination camps the victims were gassed, then cremated. When killing 'in the field' the mobile killing units sometimes herded Jews into buildings which were then set on fire.
The deportations to forced-labor camps began as soon as the war got underway in September 1939.The mass killings which didn't involve extermination camps also started at that time, and picked up pace during the German invasion into the Soviet Union which began in June 1941.The extermination camps were not formally set underway until the Wannsee Conference of January 1942._____The first extermination camp was Chelmno, which began routine gassings on 8 December 1941. So December 1941 looks like the most accurate date.
All over europe, but mainly in Germany.
According to research reports, Nazis actually set up 20 000 concentration camps.
No Hitler and the Nazis set them up i ww2 during the holocaust.
In the extermination camps the victims were gassed, then cremated. When killing 'in the field' the mobile killing units sometimes herded Jews into buildings which were then set on fire.
The deportations to forced-labor camps began as soon as the war got underway in September 1939.The mass killings which didn't involve extermination camps also started at that time, and picked up pace during the German invasion into the Soviet Union which began in June 1941.The extermination camps were not formally set underway until the Wannsee Conference of January 1942._____The first extermination camp was Chelmno, which began routine gassings on 8 December 1941. So December 1941 looks like the most accurate date.
All over europe, but mainly in Germany.
According to research reports, Nazis actually set up 20 000 concentration camps.
No Hitler and the Nazis set them up i ww2 during the holocaust.
The deportations to camps were not based on any law. They were just done. (The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 did not send Jews (or anyone else) to concentration camps or extermination camps). .
There were around 20,000 concentration camps and subcamps established by the Nazis throughout Eastern Europe during World War II. These camps were used for various purposes, including forced labor, mass executions, and extermination. Auschwitz-Birkenau, located in Poland, is one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
In practice, that is exactly what the ghettos set up by the Nazis were.
Concentration camps were first used by the British during the Boer War. As their name implies, it was the most efficient way of holding the maximum number of prisoners with the smallest number of guards. For the reasons why the Nazis set up concentration camps see the related question.
They were set up because by this way Hitler segregated the Jews and the other undesirables and kill them. some famous killing centres were Auschwitz.
The Nazis identified two types of camps:work camps - people were inadequately fed and overworked, they were worked to deathdeath camps - people were warehoused then executed in massSecond answer with additional information. These camps were called "Concentration Camps". The term had first been used to explain what the Spanish did in Cuba in the late 1890's. In Cuba, these were not death or slave labor camps; therefore the name at the time in Germany did not necessarily arouse suspicions that the Nazi's had in fact created camps to carry-out mass genocide. Often these major camps had sub-camps built nearby to assist with the various tasks assigned to the camps. For example a major death camp could have several sub-camps established to specialize in slave labor, located near the location of the work being one. For example: The famous Auschwitz/Birkenau Extermination Camp at Oswiecim-Brzezinka had 51 sub-camps.
From 1940-43 Italy refused to hand Jews over to the Germans, despite the fact that it was an ally of Nazi Germany. In 1943 the official Italian government surrendered and then changed sides. Thereupon the Nazis kidnapped Mussolini and set up a puppet regime in northern Italy. The latter was run by Nazis and handed sent Jews to extermination camps.