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Bookmark or Share- At the Killing Centers | Holocaust EncyclopediaThe Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder. Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, killing centers (also referred to as "death camps") were almost exclusively "death factories."
- Auschwitz concentration camp - WikipediaIt consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. [4] The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish question.
- Auschwitz | Holocaust EncyclopediaKey Facts. 1. Located in German-occupied Poland, Auschwitz consisted of three camps including a killing center. The camps were opened over the course of nearly two years, 1940-1942. Auschwitz closed in January 1945 with its liberation by the Soviet army. 2. More than 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz, including nearly one million Jews.
- Extermination camp | History, Map, & Facts | BritannicaExtermination camp, Nazi German concentration camp specializing in the mass annihilation of unwanted persons in the Third Reich and conquered territories. The victims were mostly Jews but also included Roma, Slavs, homosexuals, alleged mental defectives, and others.
- Extermination camp - WikipediaNazi Germany used six extermination camps (German: Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe, primarily Occupied Poland, during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million people – mostly Jews – in the Holocaust.
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