Concentration CampsConcentration camps had a lot of purposes, such as reformatory facilities, POW camps, "punishment camps", transit camps, and more purposes. These camps helped with the systematic suppression of Jews, gypsies, political descent, homosexuals, and other "unwanted" in the Nazi state. Concentration camps had extremely horrible living conditions for inmates. There was also very little food leading to many deaths of prisoners, especially in work camps. In the camps if you became ill, too old, or crippled you were out into a gas chamber and killed because you were considered useless once that happened. These camps helped the Nazis keep power of the Jews and kept organization within Germany. Many camps were made all through Germany and Europe. The first camp ever made was Dachau made in 1933. The typical concentration camp consisted of barracks secured for escaped by barbed wire, with watch tower and dogs.
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Extermination CampsExtermination camps were only used for the mass murder of Jews and other "unwanted". Only 6 were established between 1941 and 1943, with a total of 3 million Jews murdered in these camps. Some extermination camps were combined with concentration camps, the others that were just extermination camps were called "pure" extermination camps. The four "pure" extermination camps were Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Chelmno. only a few hundred Jews survived these extermination camps. The other 2 were the combined extermination camps and they both started out as concentration camps there names were Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek. After a while of being just concentration camps these two camps had the construction of gas chambers. One in every four Jews was selected for forced labor the rest were gassed immediately upon arrival a total of about 160,000 to 180,000 Jews were killed in these camps.
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