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No, death camps did not hold people, they just killed them.
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Ordinary concentration camps were essentially punishment and forced labour camps. Extermination camps were intended purely as 'killing facilities': the aim was to kill new arrivals as soon as practical, usually within hours. As stated above, they did not 'hold people'. The extermination camps were:
- Auschwitz II (Birkenau - part only. The rest was a very harsh concentration camp).
- Belzec
- Chelmno
- Majdanek - (part only). The function of this camp seems to have been to provide a 'back-up' extermination facility.
- Sobibor
- Treblinka
In addition, there Maly Trostinets (near Minsk) was an extermination camp.
Auschwitz II and Majdanek were both concentration camps and extermination camps.
The term death camp includes all the Nazi extermination camps. It is sometimes extended to the very harshest concentration camps (the Grade III camps), where the aim was to work prisoners to death. Examples include the Mauthausen group of camps and Auschwitz III. So there is some (rather confusing) overlap between the terms.
Note that there were practically no survivors from Belzec and Chlemno (only two known survivors in each case). Sobibor and Treblinka had about 50-60 survivors each as the result of uprisings and mass break-outs by the Sonderkommandos at both camps. (The Sonderkommandos were the very small groups of new arrivals selected to help with the extermination process itself, for example, by digging mass graves, sorting the victims' personal belongings and so on). Maly Trostinets has no known survivors at all, which may be one reason why it is almost unknown. On the other hand, there were survivors from all the concentration camps, including the very harshest.
On the whole, Holocaust scholarship avoids using the term death camp, but there are some exceptions.
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How are concentration camps and internment camps terms conncected?
they are essentially the same thing; they are camps for a civilian population.
Are work camps and labor camps the same thing?
essentially yes.
What happened to Japanese Americans during world war 2 as a response to war with japan?
They were compelled to enter into internment camps ; the same thing as a concentration camp .
Why where children put in concentration camps?
Same reason as adults they were -Jews -Non aryan racial etc.. but if the Children is unfit to work and they didnt have a twin, they would be shot to death or gased to death or even brutally assulted to death or raped then killed so even if you was a child or a adult and you was sent to the camps, your likely to die
Did Hitler start extermination camps?
Yes. Hitler actively supported, facilitated, and developed the Final Solution which was responsible for the systematic murder of Jews. A critical part of the Final Solution was the creation of massive centers for these murders. They have several different names, such as Death Camps, Concentration Camps, Extermination Camps, etc. but they were all engineered to the same end.
