What+is+an+Extermination+Camp?

With all the different types of camps during the Holocaust, extermination camps were unique in their own means. Extermination camps were built as the “final solution” for the mass destruction of the Jews. They were built for one purpose, mass murder. The Nazis made many different forms to kill the Jews. One of the most effective was the gas chambers. Lots of other ways included just general abuse or being hung or shot. Not all of the extermination camps were concentration camps like Auschwitz. Each camp could be considered a mixture of several different types of camps. For example there were transit camps, prisoner of war camps and slave-labor camps just to name a few. Of the six primary “killing centers”, Treblinka, Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka, Majadanek, and Auschwitz only four were solely extermination camps. Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec and Chelmno were camps where all new arrivals were simply killed. Auschwitz and Majdanek were concentration and extermination camps. (Killing Centers: Overview)

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A crematorium at the Majdanek extermination camp, outside Lublin. Poland, date uncertain. — //United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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