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1. 'Ordinary' concentration camps were very harsh punishment and labour camps. The men had to do heavy manual work - on inadequate food. Roll-call (two or three times a day) was deliberately spun out to last 1.5-2 hours in order to make the inmates suffer. They had to stand to attention while the SS guards walked around. Minor breaches of discipline often led to public floggings; serious breaches were punished with death. 2. At extermination camps, such as the Birkenau section of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka or Belzec, most of the new arrivals were gassed as soon as possible after entering the camp.

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