Extermination camp
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Nazi Germany used six extermination camps, also called death camps, or killing centers, in Central Europe, primarily in German-occupied Poland, during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 mi
Sobibor extermination camp view, summer 1943
Two of the four crematoria at Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
Members of the Sonderkommando burned the bodies of victims in the fire pits at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, when the crematoria were overloaded. (August 1944)
Jewish children during deportation to the Chełmno extermination camp
Nazi concentration camps
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Nazi Germany built and operated a system of concentration camps between 1933 and 1945. In these camps, prisoners were held in inhumane conditions, with the majority of prisoners dying from causes incl
Extermination camp
…Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Extermination through labour was also used at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps. Millions were also murdered in concentration camps, in the Aktion T4, or directly on site. Additionally, camps operated by Nazi allies have also been described as extermination or death camps, most…
Prisoners guarded by SA men line up in the yard of Oranienburg, 6 April 1933
Heinrich Himmler inspects Dachau on 8 May 1936.
Prisoners at Sachsenhausen, 19 December 1938
Forced labor at Sachsenhausen brickworks