Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
The Nazis did not plan to murder all prisoners in camps built before the Holocaust
The Nazis did not plan to murder all prisoners in camps built before the Holocaust
The Nazis did not plan to murder all prisoners in camps built before the Holocaust
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Hitler built some prison camps in Germany during the 1930s-- the best known of these were Buchenwald and Dachau. Later, Jews were rounded up and deported from a number of the Nazi-occupied countries, sent to prison camps where they were usually killed. The most concentration camps were in Poland-- six of them. For more detailed information, I enclose a link about the location of these camps.
They are sometimes referred to collectively as The Gulag.
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The SS anfd Todt Organization (Engineers) built concentration camps in Europe for Jews The Army Corps of Engineers built internment camps for Japanese Americans in the southwestern US
there were over 500