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Auschwitz was an extermination camp that killed the most people.

Dachau was the first concentration camp.

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Q: Why were Auschwitz and dachau the most famous concentration camps?
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Was the dachau and Auschwitz called Ghettos?

No, both Auschwitz and Dachau were Concentration Camps durinng the Holocaust.


What were the names of 2 Famous Concentration camps?

It is known that Germans built over 2000 camps and sub-camps in occupied Europe. Auschwitz is the most famous but which is second best known varies. Bergen-Belsen or Majdanek is likely the second best known.


What are two of the best known concentration camps?

Dachau and Auschwitz


Are there still concentration camps from the Holocaust?

Some of the camps, such as Dachau and Auschwitz, are now museums.


What do Auschwitz and Dachau and Buchenwald have in common?

They were all Nazi concentration camps. In addition, part of Auschwitz was an extermination camp.


What are two famous concentration camps and their location in Europe?

Dachau concentration camp in Dachau Germany, a short distance outside Munich. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Auschwitz is often called a concentration camp but it was in reality a network of concentration camps.


What were some main concentration camps?

Auschwitz I Birkenau Monowitz Sobibor Dachau Chelmno Treblinka


Which concentration camps were restored?

* Parts of Auschwitz I and II * A small part of Buchenwald * Part of Majdanek * Dachau


Where were the most famous World War 2 concentration camps?

The most famous World War 2 concentration camps were located in Auschwitz (Poland), Dachau (Germany), and Treblinka (Poland). These camps were established by the Nazi regime and were responsible for the imprisonment and killing of millions of people during the Holocaust.


What are some of the Concentration Camps during World War 2?

Here some known concentration Camps Auschwitz I Birkenau Monowitz Sobibor Dachau Chelmno Treblinka


What are Auschwitz Dachau Treblinka?

Dachau and Auschwitz were two well-known concentration camps of the many that Nazi Germany opened. Dachau was ostensibly a detention camp for dissenters and "political prisoners", but many, many people died there. Auschwitz was an outright death camp, where people were sent to be killed by "annihilation by work", or by being sent directly to the gas chambers.


What do Auschwitz-Birkenau Buchenwald Dachau and Ravensbruck have in common?

All four are the names of different kinds of Nazi camps. * Dachau and Buchenwald were 'ordinary' concentration camps. (Dachau was a Grade I concentration camp, Buchenwald was Grade II - in other words, harsher). * Ravensbrück was a concentration camp for women only. * The Birkenau section of Auschwitz was mainly an extermination camp that carried out mass gassings on a vast scale, but it also included the main hard labour camp for women in the Auschwitz complex of camps.