BECAUSE Jews, roma, gypsies and handicapped were seen as a serios biological threat to the purity of the German race. so they had to be "exterminated"...*cough* 'killed' *cough* the Nazis also blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in world war I. communists, socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and freemasons were killed and mistreted because
The Jews were sent to extermination camps because the Nazis were trying to get rid of them. They believed that Jews were inferior to them. Extermination camps were just one of the several inhumane ways they got rid of them. And the Jews weren't the only ones sent there, but they were the main targeted group.
65,000 Jews were killed.
well an extermination camp is a camp where the Jews are sent so that the Nazi's can exterminate them or in other words where they can kill them.. try and kill off the race.
To kill large numbers of Jews and gypsies (mainly).
Belzec extermination camp was created in 1942.
Treblinka extermination camp was created in 1942.
65,000 Jews were killed.
Presumably this means the extermination camp at Birkenau - just under a million. (this was an answer when the question read "How many Jews were killed at the extermination camp") To answer the current question: about three and a half million.
well an extermination camp is a camp where the Jews are sent so that the Nazi's can exterminate them or in other words where they can kill them.. try and kill off the race.
It was an extermination camp for Jews.
To kill large numbers of Jews and gypsies (mainly).
It functioned as a labor camp and an extermination camp. The majority of those killed were Jewish.
Initially, Treblinka was built to kill the Jews in the Warsaw and Bialystock ghettos.
Auschwitz with a total death of 1.2 million jews
The main camp used for the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto was Treblinka, where an estimated 850,000 Jews were murdered.
Auschwitz was an extermination camp, NOT a labor camp. All they did was bring in Jews, cut their hair, then put them in line to die.
Yes, in extermination camps like Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor.
A large combined concentration and extermination death camp for Jews