The Germans had gathered all of the Jews that they could into various towns and cities, into ghettos. They faced the problem of what to do with them. Though they had made the Jews pay for their own food, there was still the issue that this food could be used to feed the armed forces or the general population. It was considered that rather than let the Jews starve or freeze to death, that they would kill them themselves; hence the extermination centres were built.
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The term kill was not heard among the Germans at the camps or read in the documents. Final solution meant extermination.
The Jews were forced to build a wall. This was done so the Jews could not escape until the Germans could send them to concentration camps. Many were sent to Treblinka for extermination.
Germans were not told that the Jews were being exterminated at the time, they believed that the Jews were being re-settled in the east.
Extermination camps were established so that the Nazis could easily get ride of those that didn't fit their standards. (A.K.A., non Germans)
They were put in concentration camps and extermination camps.
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They were told that they were being resettled, but in fact they were being transported to extermination camps.
The Nazi extermination camps (that is, camps built solely for the purpose of killing) were all built in 1941-42. There were 6-8 such camps. Please see the related questions.
They went to displaced persons camps and from there tried to build a new life.
Most of the killings took place in the extermination camps (in Poland) and in open air shootings further east - in: * Lithuania * Latvia * Belarus * Ukraine * Russia