The first Nazi Concentration Camps opened in March 1933 (at Dachau and Oranienburg) - long before the start of the Holocaust. Initially, they were mainly for opponents (real and imaginary) of the regime On the whole, Jews were not sent to camps simply for being Jewish till 1938 after the Kristallnact.
The first Nazi Extermination Camp to open was Chelmno, where the first routine mass gassings began on 8 December 1941. There had been some earlier, 'experimental' gassings ... Mass open-air shootings (many on a vast scale) had started in June 1941.
They were built from October 1941 onwards. The first Nazi extermination camp, Chelmno, used a large existing building, a disused manor house. It was more of a 'killing facility' than a camp. The victims were gassed in closed vans and then buried in a forest a few miles away. The other camps were purpose built.
The first death camp in the sense of a camp intended solely for killing was Chelmno, which became operational in December 1941. 'Ordinary' concentration camps started in March 1933.
The order to build extermination camps was given by Himmler in October 1941.
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.
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 largest Nazi Death Camp by number of kills is Auschwtz with other 1.25 million Jews dead.
If you were in a Nazi death camp, (there is a difference between death/extermination camps and the labor camps) you would be tortured in any inhumane way possible.Medical experiencesHaving to work with lack of foodStarvationFear of selectionsRoll CallKnowing about the gas chambers
Many people in the death camps did not keep their faith. Of those that, did each had an individual story of what served to hold them to their faith.
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.
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 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 concentration camps wass ran by the Leader of the SS Heinrich Himmler
All over germany
the last gassing was in December 1944.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_extermination_camp
Your question should really be stated in the past tense, since the Nazi death camps were closed in 1945. In those camps, people were imprisoned, abused, starved, and killed.