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| | |  Nazi extermination camp - Terminology: Encyclopedia II - Nazi extermination camp - TerminologyExtermination camps are distinguished from concentration camps (such as Dachau and Belsen), which were mostly located in Germany and intended as places of incarceration and forced labour for a variety of "enemies of the state" of the Nazi regime (such as Communists and homosexuals). In the early years of the Nazi regime, many Jews were sent to these camps, but after 1942 all Jews were deported to the extermination camps.
They should also be distinguished from slave labor camps, which were set up in all German-occupied countries to exp ...
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| | | | Nazi extermination camp - Terminology: Encyclopedia II - Nazi extermination camp - Post War As the Soviet armed forces advanced into Poland in 1944, the camps were closed and partly or completely dismantled to conceal what had taken place in them. The postwar Polish Communist government further partly dismantled the campsites, and generally allowed them to decay. Monuments of various kinds were erected at the camps, although these usually did not mention that most of the people killed in them were Jews.
After the fall of communism in 1989, the camp sites became more accessible and have become centres of tourism, particularly ...
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| | | | Nazi extermination camp - Terminology: Encyclopedia II - Nazi extermination camp - Operation of the camps The method of killing at these camps was by poison gas, usually in "gas chambers", although many prisoners were killed in mass shootings and by other means. The bodies of those killed were destroyed in crematoria (except at Sobibór where they were cremated on outdoor pyres), and the ashes buried or scattered.
The camps differed slightly in operation, but all were designed to kill as efficiently as possible. SS Lt. Kurt Gerstein, who worked in the SS medical service, for example, testified to a Swedish diplomat during the war about wh ...
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| | | | Nazi extermination camp - Terminology: Encyclopedia II - Nazi extermination camp - Operation of the camps The method of killing at these camps was by poison gas, usually in "gas chambers", although many prisoners were killed in mass shootings and by other means. The bodies of those killed were destroyed in crematoria (except at Sobibór where they were cremated on outdoor pyres), and the ashes buried or scattered.
The camps differed slightly in operation, but all were designed to kill as efficiently as possible. SS Lt. Kurt Gerstein, who worked in the SS medical service, for example, testified to a Swedish diplomat during the war about wh ...
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