Nazi extermination camps. In German-occupied Europe during World War II, extermination camps were established primarily for the assembly-line style mass murder of human beings. Those few prisoners who were selected to survive, temporarily, were deployed in some fashion in support of this primary function.
German S.S. and police murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting.
- Auschwitz-Birkenau (German-occupied Poland)
- Chelmno (German-occupied Poland)
- Lublin/Majdanek (German-occupied Poland)
The SS considered the operations of the killing centers to be top secret, classified information. Perpetrators were sworn to secrecy and could face prosecution in the event of unauthorized disclosure of information.
Concentration camps such as Dachau and Triblinka also served to kill human beings.
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