Extermination+Camps

Keyanna Russell (going to edit) The following was originally published June 15, 2012 at http://exterminationcampsofwwii.wikispaces.com/page/diff/home/345516020 ... The first concentration camps in Germany were built soon after Hitler became chancellor. These death camps showed the lengths that Hitler would go to to make his dream of the "Master Race" a reality. The extermination camps were Hitlers way of annihilating and killing millions of Jewish people. The Difference Between Concentration Camps And Extermination Camps ... Jewish people. Extermination Camps As Stated above, these camps were built for only one purpose and that was to kill Jewish People. There were many extermination camps such as Auschwitz, which was considered to be the main extermination camp killing over 600,000 Jewish people. Some other names of extermination camps are Belzec, Chelmno, Janowska, Jasenovac, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sajmiste, Sobibor, Treblinka and Warsaw. Most of these extermination camps were located in Poland expect for Jasenovac which was located in Croatia, Maly Trostenets which was located in Belarus and Janowska that was located in the Ukraine. Life in extermination camps was very poor. The prisoners were treated like dogs and fed like them as well. They would receive one meal a day, just enough to keep them alive. There were different ways that people were killed in these extermination camps, the main way being the gas chambers. Other ways included working the prisoners to death, hangings and making the prisoners dig their own graves and them shooting them into the graves. ... Concentration camps were the less tragic of the camps in WWII. They were not directly built for the killing of Jewish people. After the beginning of the Second World War, concentration camps became places where millions of ordinary people were enslaved as part of the war effort and were ofter fed very little, tortured and killed. Most of these camps were built in areas with large populations of Jewish people. The main population of these camps were Jewish people and Soviet prisoners of war. In many of the concentration camps, prisoners were forced to wear identifying badges {Mass_Grave_Bergen_Belsen_May_1945.jpg} according to their categorization. By: PAUL AND BRANDON GANZ