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Auschwitz.
Auschwitz I was the original Auschwitz camp, set up in May 1940, mainly for Polish political prisoners and the Polish elites. It also housed the main administrative offices for the whole complex of camps as well as the blocks where medical experiments were carried out, and execution chambers.
From early 1942 Auschwitz operated as both. The only other camp that served as both a concentration camp and extermination camp was Majdanek.
All the concentration camps and extermination camps were run by the SS.
No. Dachau was a Grade I concentration camp; Auschwitz was Grade III, which was the harshest grade. Part of the Birkenau section of Auschwitz was an extermination camp.
Auschwitz I- Birkenau
There was one large extermination camp in Auschwitz II (Birkenau).
Auschwitz was a concentration camp.concentration and extermination camp
mainly extermination
Auschwitz.
A Extermination camp
Auschwitz I was the original Auschwitz camp, set up in May 1940, mainly for Polish political prisoners and the Polish elites. It also housed the main administrative offices for the whole complex of camps as well as the blocks where medical experiments were carried out, and execution chambers.
From early 1942 Auschwitz operated as both. The only other camp that served as both a concentration camp and extermination camp was Majdanek.
Concentration camp and Extermination camp
1. In the extermination camps they had during the Holocaust, like Auschwitz. 2. In mass open air shootings by mobile killing units.
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It was an extermination camp for Jews.