The sole purpose of extermination camps was to kill as quickly and efficiently as possible. The were 'industrial' killing centres.
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Often the terms concentration camps and extermination camps (or death camps) are used interchangeably. The sole purpose of extermination (death) camps was to kill. They were not labour camps.
For example, at Belzec (extermination camp), 434,508 Jews and an unknown number of Roma ("Gypsies") were murdered, and only two(!) are known to have survived, while over 80% of those who entered Dachau (concentration camp) emerged alive (though it doesn't follow that they all survived World War 2, as some were moved to other camps, where they perished). At Chelmno, too, there were only two known survivors.
Concentration camps were used as:
Two camps - the Auschwitz group and Majdanek were both extermination camps (death camps) and concentration camps. At Auschwitz, in particular, some people among each trainload of new arrivals were selected (chosen) as 'fit for work'. The others - who were mainly children under 15, visibly pregnant women, or sick or elderly people were killed as soon as practical because they were a "waste of a space".
Extermination camps
In addition, Maly Trostinets (near Mink, Belarus) and Janowska (near Lviv or Lemberg, in Ukraine) are often regarded as an extermination camps.
To avoid misunderstanding, it should be stressed that the death toll at all the main concentration camps was high. Most of the prisoners had to do hard manual labour on insufficient food, and killer diseases, such as typhus, were common. For example, the death toll at Stutthof (near Danzig/Gdansk) is estimated at 65,000; and an estimated 50,000 died at Bergen-Belsen, about 75% of these as the result of a typhus epidemic in 1945.
Extermination (death) camps were used only for the purpose of killing, usually by gassing. In many death camps, when they functioned efficiently, the new arrivals were taken straight from the trains to huts where they had to hand over their possessions and undress. They were then taken to the gas chambers and their corpses were cremated or buried in mass graves. These camps were 'death factories'. Very few people indeed survived these camps. (Most survivors from Auschwitz are from the various labour camps in the Auschwitz complex).
Some prisoners were moved from Auschwitz (in particular) and Majdanek to other camps.
They only held the Japanese in the concentration camps, the dint kill them off. They could have a life in the one square mile of a home. They killed off the Jews in the Nazi concentration camps.
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
The key disinction is between 'ordinary' concentration camps (such as Dachau or Buchenwald) and extermination camps such as Treblinka and Sobibor. The sole purpose of extermination camps was to kill. Note that Auschwitz and Majdanek combined both kinds of camps.
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
Ordinary concentration camps were not secret. Only the small number of extermination camps were secret.
concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
The key distinction was between extermination camps and labour camps ("ordinary" concentration camps).
The key disinction is between 'ordinary' concentration camps (such as Dachau or Buchenwald) and extermination camps such as Treblinka and Sobibor. The sole purpose of extermination camps was to kill. Note that Auschwitz and Majdanek combined both kinds of camps.
Technically all camps were within the concentration camp system, there were labour camps, transit camps and extermination camps. Concentration camps were generally intended for civillians, initially just for criminals, but gradually more types were included. Extermination camps were established about seven and a half years after the first concentration camps. They were much smaller than the average concentration camps (Auschwitz is an exception as it was both), as they only held enough inmates that were needed to opperate the gas chambers/vans and the cramatoria.
Ghettos, concentration camps and extermination camps.
Technically all camps were within the concentration camp system, there were labour camps, transit camps and extermination camps. Concentration camps were generally intended for civillians, initially just for criminals, but gradually more types were included. Extermination camps were established about seven and a half years after the first concentration camps. They were much smaller than the average concentration camps (Auschwitz is an exception as it was both), as they only held enough inmates that were needed to opperate the gas chambers/vans and the cramatoria.
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
Ordinary concentration camps were not secret. Only the small number of extermination camps were secret.
Dachau and Ravensbruch <><><><> There were more than 40 Concentration camps, including 11 that were extermination camps.
Two extermination camps (not ordinary concentration camps) were closed after revolts: Treblinka and Sobibor.
A Concentration camp was used to torture or force their prisoners to work. An extermination camp was where they were all systematically murdered in mass quantities, and in horrific ways. (An extermination camp was also known as a death camp.) I hope this helps you.