To exterminate those people that were deemed imperfect. The Nazi view of perfection was blond, blue eyed muscular types and most people in the world are far from that. Also experimentation of chemical warfare and also to inspire fear and terror in those that stood against them. Atrocities is always a good way to frighten people, unfortunatly for the Nazis it also inspired people to stand against them
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The Nazis were opposed to chemical warfare as they did not want to risk harming their own people. It did not frighten or inspire as it did not exist.
They sent millions to the death camps because they wanted to live in a place without those types of people, killing them was the most efficient way of doing this.
Because Hitler wanted a perfect race. His vision of a perfect race was one without Jews, homosexuals, and mentally retarded people.
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Most Jews were sent to extermination camps rather than ordinary concentration camps.
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The reasons for sending Jews to camps changed ... In 1938 the key aim was to bully the Jews into leaving Germany, but later, the aim was to exploit able-bodied Jews as slave labour and exterminate the rest.
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It was government policy in Germany under the Nazi regime, based on the anti-Semitism that was an integral part of National Socialist philosophy.
The purpose of the extermination camps was to speed up the Holocaust - and also to keep it secret.
Extermination ('death') camps, in the sense of killing centres, were set up from late 1941 onwards in order to implement the Holocaust of the Jews and Romanies/Sinti ('gypsies'). The following are generally listed as extermination camps:
The sole purpose of these camps was to kill.
Maly Trostinets (near Minsk) and Janowska (near Lviv, Lvov, Lemberg) are often listed as extermination camps, too.
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The sole function of Nazi extermination camps (as opposed to ordinary Nazi concentration camps) was to kill Jews and "gypsies" as soon as practical after arrival - usually within 12-48 hours. (The popular term "death camp" is generally avoided in Holocaust scholarship).
They had a concentraion camp near Auschwitz called Auschwitz concentration camp because after the occupasion of Poland Auschwitz used to be a military ground with loads of barracks, so they used the structure and transform it into a death factory
In order to keep away or eliminate 'undesirables' from Nazi society. These included Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, black people and political opponents such as communists.
to terrorize enemies of their rezzeme
to kill people
I think it was mainly the Germans who used the concentration camps to kill jewish people and to keep people hostage.
There were no concentration camps in Britain. There's some confusion here.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Most of the time, German soldiers would invade towns, set up ghettos, then eventually force the Jews to travel on cattle trains to the camps. but sometimes the Jews had to walk all the way.
Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Hungary
I think it was mainly the Germans who used the concentration camps to kill jewish people and to keep people hostage.
because the camps were set up to hold them.
There were no concentration camps in Britain. There's some confusion here.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Most of the time, German soldiers would invade towns, set up ghettos, then eventually force the Jews to travel on cattle trains to the camps. but sometimes the Jews had to walk all the way.
Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Hungary
Auschwitz isn't a country, it is a town in Southern Poland just West of Krakow, made famous by the Germans who set up many concentration camps in the area during the Holocaust.
No Hitler and the Nazis set them up i ww2 during the holocaust.
The Germans set-up many camps in occupied Poland perhaps 2,000. These included concentration and labour camps mostly for ethnic Poles. There were also ghettos and death camps most for ethnic Jews.
because Hitler wanted to create a perfect race and he set up concentration camps to rid the world of imperfect people e.g. Jews ,Muslims etc
According to research reports, Nazis actually set up 20 000 concentration camps.