Concentration camps

Definition

Concentration camps were detention centers established by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. These camps served as places where millions of people, primarily Jews but also political dissidents and others deemed undesirable by the Nazis, were imprisoned under harsh conditions, subjected to forced labor, starvation, disease, and often faced torture and death.

Related terms

Death camps: Specialized extermination centers within concentration camp complexes where mass murders occurred via gas chambers or other methods.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: One of the most infamous concentration camps located in occupied Poland where over one million people perished during the Holocaust.

Final Solution: The Nazi plan for systematically exterminating all European Jews through mass deportations to concentration and death camps.