What happend in the concentration camps?
Not all concentration camps were equal. There were internment camps and extermination camps, and the internment camps had differences in regime. Internment camps were originally a type of prison, but conditions were often harsh with forced hard labour and little food. In some of them, like Groß-Rosen and Mauthausen, most people would die in only a few months from starvation or diseases. In others, like Dachau, conditions were extremely harsh but survivable. Extermination camps were meant for quick extermination, that is murder, of the detainees. Children, women and elderly were killed immediately in gas chambers. Others would be put to work in the camp, but killed when they became too weak to do work. Famous (or rather infamous) extermination camps are Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor.
