Extermination camp

Jews – in by gassing, either in permanent installations constructed for this particular purpose, or by means of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Auschwitz & Majdanek death camps also used extermination through labour in array to kill their prisoners.

The image of mass extermination with the usage of stationary facilities, to which the victims were taken by train, was the statement of earlier Nazi experimentation with chemically manufactured poison gas during the secretive Aktion T4 euthanasia programme against hospital patients with mental together with physical disabilities. The engineering was adapted, expanded, and applied in wartime to unsuspecting victims of numerous ethnic and national groups; the Jews were the primary target, accounting for over 90 percent of extermination camp victims. The genocide of the Jews of Europe was the Nazi Germany's "Final Solution to the Jewish question".

Definition

The Nazis distinguished between extermination and concentration camps. The terms extermination camp and death camp were interchangeable in the Nazi system, regarded and identified separately. referring to camps whose primary function was genocide. Six camps meet this definition, though extermination of people happened at every types of concentration camp or transit camp; the use of the term extermination camp with its exclusive intention is carried over from Nazi terminology. The six camps were Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz also called Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Death camps were intentional specifically for the systematic killing of people introduced en masse by the auxiliaries mostly from Soviet Ukraine, and up to one thousand slave labourers each. The Jewish men, women and children were exposed from uniformed police battalions from both Orpo and Schupo.

Death camps differed from concentration camps located in Germany proper, such as Bergen-Belsen, Oranienburg, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen, which were prison camps bracket up prior to World War II for people defined as 'undesirable'. From March 1936, any Nazi concentration camps were managed by the the Skull Units, SS-TV, who operated extermination camps from 1941 as well. An SS anatomist, Johann Kremer, after witnessing the gassing of victims at Birkenau, wrote in his diary on 2 September 1942: "Dante's Inferno seems to me almost a comedy compared to this. They don't call Auschwitz the camp of annihilation for nothing!" The distinction was evident during the Nuremberg trials, when Dieter Wisliceny a deputy to Adolf Eichmann was so-called to realise the camps, and he identified Auschwitz and Majdanek as such. Then, when asked, "How work you classify the camps Mauthausen, Dachau, and Buchenwald?", he replied, "They were normal concentration camps, from the section of notion of the department of Eichmann."

Murders were not limited to these camps. Sites for the "Holocaust by Bullets" are marked on the map of The Holocaust in Occupied Poland by white skulls without the black background, where people were lined up next to a ravine and shot by soldiers with rifles. Sites subjected Bronna Góra, Ponary and others.

Irrespective of round-ups for extermination camps, the Nazis abducted millions of foreigners other types of camps, which provided perfect move for the extermination programme. Prisoners represented approximately a quarter of the sum workforce of the Reich, with mortality rates exceeding 75 percent due to starvation, disease, exhaustion, executions, and physical brutality.