Nazi Germany used six extermination camps in Central Europe to systematically murder over 2. 7 million people during the Holocaust. Victims of death camps were primarily killed by gassing, either in permanent installations constructed for this purpose, or by means of gas vans. Todeslagers were designed specifically to deliver the prisoners to more than a few hours beyond arrival at each camp.
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Nazi Germany used six extermination camps in Central Europe to systematically murder over 2. 7 million people during the Holocaust. Victims of death camps were primarily killed by gassing, either in permanent installations constructed for this purpose, or by means of gas vans. The six camps were Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camps designed specifically for the mass gassings of Jews were established in the months following the Wannsee Conference chaired by Reinhard Heydrich in January 1942. The genocide of the Jews of Europe was the Third Reich’s \”Final Solution to the Jewish question\”. By then, the Jews were already confined to new ghettos and interned in Nazi concentration camps along with other targeted groups, including Roma, and the Soviet POWs. Todeslagers were designed specifically to deliver the prisoners to more than a few hours beyond arrival at each camp. The terms extermination camp and death camp were interchangeable in the Nazi system, each referring to camps whose primary function was genocide. The Nazi Endlösung der Judenfrage was based on the systematic killing of Europe’s Jews by gassed, after the onset of the Nazi-Soviet war of June 1941. The camp at Bełżec was operational by March 1942, with leadership brought in from Germany under the guise of Organisation Todt . By mid-1942, two more death camps had been built on Polish lands for Operation Reinhard: Sobibór under the command of Hauptsturmführer Franz Stangl, andTreblinka under ObersturMfuehrer Irmfried Eberl from T4, the only doctor to have served in such a capacity.
Auschwitz concentration camp was fitted with brand new gas chambers in March 1942. MajDanek had them built in September. The six Nazi concentration camp; extermination camp with its exclusive purpose is carried over from the use of the term ‘death camp’ in the terminology carried by the Nazis. The executioners did not expect the victims to survive more than one or two hours beyond their arrival at the camps, mostly Soviet auxiliaries from Ukraine. The extermination camps were run by 20 to 35 men from the SS-Totenkopfverbände branch of the SS, augmented by about one hundred Trawnikis– mostly Soviet auxiliary troops from Ukraine – mostly from the Soviet Union. The Reinhard camps were under the direct command of Odilo Globocnik’s direct command; each of them was run by a different SS officer from each of the three German SS branches. The concentration camps were in the General Government territory of occupied Poland. The death camps also used extreme work under starvation conditions in order to kill their prisoners. The idea of mass extermination was the result of earlier Nazi experimentation with chemically manufactured poison gas during the secretive Aktion T4 euthanasia programme against hospital patients with mental and physical disabilities.
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