Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party developed a plan of a master Arian race. The world Jewish population was the central victim. Concentration camps were built in Germany and Poland. There were six camps built specifically for the extermination of the Jewish people.
The Final Solution began implementation as part of Operation Reinhard. Operation Reinhard was the code name for the plan to exterminate two million Jews living in the Government General. Government General was a part of German Occupied Poland that was annexed by the Soviet Union before the Blitzkrieg on the Soviet Union.
The Final Solution began implementation as part of Operation Reinhard. Operation Reinhard was the code name for the plan to exterminate two million Jews living in the Government General. Government General was a part of German Occupied Poland that was annexed by the Soviet Union before the Blitzkrieg on the Soviet Union.
Chelmno was opened as an extermination camp on December 8, 1941. It was closed and destroyed by the SS in 1944 to cover up the atrocities that occurred there. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005194
Belzak was opened as an extermination camp in late 1942. Prior to being an extermination camp there was a forced labor camp on the same site which was opened in 1940 just after the invasion of Poland, the camp was closed and dismantled the same year.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007206
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007206
Sobibor was constructed in the spring of 1942 as an extermination camp, it was the second extermination camp to be built.
http://www.ushmm.org/search/results/?q=sobibor
http://www.ushmm.org/search/results/?q=sobibor
Treblinka II began operation in July 1942 as an extermination camp. Treblinka I was in operation already as a forced labor camp.
http://www.ushmm.org/search/results/?q=Treblinka
http://www.ushmm.org/search/results/?q=Treblinka
Majdanek began operation in December 1941 as an forced labor camp. The camp was converted to an extermination camp in the spring of 1942.
http://www.ushmm.org/search/results/?q=majdanek
http://www.ushmm.org/search/results/?q=majdanek
Auschwitz-Berchanau began as just a concentration camp housing political prisoners and agitators, beginning in 1942 the camp became the largest of all six death camps.
http://www.ushmm.org/search/results/?q=auschwitz
http://www.ushmm.org/search/results/?q=auschwitz