List of Nazi extermination camps and euthanasia centers

The 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.

Extermination camps

During the Final Solution of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany created six extermination camps to carry out the systematic genocide of the Jews in German-occupied Europe. All the camps were located in the General Government area of German-occupied Poland, with the exception of Chelmno, which was located in the Reichsgau Wartheland of German-occupied Poland.

Euthanasia extermination centers

In the period leading to the Final Solution, Nazi Germany created eight major euthanasia extermination centers to carry out the systematic genocide of the disabled. Scholars have established a fundamental connection between the motivation, the practical experience and psychological preparation, and the technology used in the Nazi euthanasia centers as part of Aktion T4 and Action 14f13 and the extermination camps used in the Holocaust. The dates of operation are for the period the facility operated as a euthanasia killing center.

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Austria

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Notes

  1. ^ Belzec was also the name of a system of forced labor camps along the Bug river in 1940. The extermination camp was built on top of the ruins of the destroyed main labor camp.
  2. ^ Treblinka was also the site of a forced labor camp. The designation Treblinka I is used to denote the forced labor camp and Treblinka II is used to denote the extermination camp.
  3. ^ Majdanek is sometimes referred to as Lublin.
  4. ^ Majdanek operated as a concentration camp and transit camp from October1941 – July1944.
  5. ^ Auschwitz consisted of three main camps, commonly referred to as Auschwitz I (concentration camp), Auschwitz II or Auschwitz-Birkenau (extermination camp), and Auschwitz III or Auschwitz-Monowitz (IG Farben forced labor camp).
  6. ^ Bernberg was designed to replace Brandenburg.
  7. ^ Hadamar was designed to replace Grafeneck.

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