concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
Ordinary concentration camps were not secret. Only the small number of extermination camps were secret.
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.
concentration camps are prisons in a sense where as extermination camps are like death row u will certainly die in a extermination camp.
Ghettos, concentration camps and extermination camps.
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
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.
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.
The extermination camps were top secret.
Concentration Camps Transit Camps Labour Camps Death Camps Extermination Camps.
Concentration camps, Extermination camps and Death camps
Concentration Camps Extermination Camps Labour Camps Transit Camps Death Camps.