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Bookmark or Share- List of Nazi extermination camps and euthanasia centersThe Nazis murdered their victims at a wide variety of sites, including vehicles, houses, hospitals, fields, concentration camps and purpose-built extermination camps. The six major extermination camps and eight major euthanasia extermination centers are listed here.
- Auschwitz: Concentration Camp, Facts, Location | HISTORYAuschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz initially served as a detention...
- 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."
- Deportations to Killing Centers | Holocaust EncyclopediaOn January 20, 1942, SS, Nazi Party, and German state officials gathered at the Wannsee Conference, held in a southwestern suburb of Berlin. There, they coordinated the deportation of European Jews to killing centers (also known as “extermination camps”) in German-occupied Poland.
- Death camps - The HolocaustBetween 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. Unlike concentration camps, which principally served as detention and labour camps, death camps were almost exclusively ‘factories of death’.
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