Whats the difference between a concentration camp and a death camp?

Question: Whats the difference between a concentration camp and a death camp!?
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A death camp was just a special form of concentration camp!.

The word itself, "concentration", explains things!. The Nazis concentrated those they didn't like in one place so they didn't have to look at them, they could use them as slave labor, and then, as needed, get rid of them!. Prisoners in them were not just Jews!. Homosexuals, the mentally retarded, political enemies, Poles, Russians, and anyone else they wanted to be "forgotten"!.

Death camps were concentration camps modified to carry out extermination of groups after the formal system of the Final Solution was decided upon on 20 Jan 1942 at the Wansee conference!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Concentration Camps were not a new idea thought up by the Nazis!.
The British Army, for example, has used them during the Boer Wars to hold mostly POW's but it did not exclude the internment of civilians seen as agitators!. The conditions were so appalling that many died of malnutrition and disease!.
The Nazi Concentration Camps began with the same intentions and were used to house both POW's (particularly Russians) and political prisoners originally and the same cramped and insanitary conditions took their toll there in the same way!. People died from starvation, disease, torture, summary execution or were worked to death!. The Nazis then went a step further when any 'undesirables' ( in their terms not mine) were similarly interned, so many in fact that the numbers became too great for the capacity of the original camps!.
This is when the 'Final Solution' was thought up and there were then special camps set up with the sole intention of killing people on a large scale!. This is when the 'Death Camps' were established!.
At Auschwitz there are two distinct sites with the original being a concentration camp as described above and a secondary 'Death Camp' being set up at Birkenau a couple of miles away!.

The difference is purely to do with the scale of the deaths and the means through which the Nazis achieved what they intended from the outset!.

Does that help!?

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concentration camps were camps that the members of the jewish rank were taken to during WW2!. These camps put the women in one area and the men in another!. Usually the children went with the mom!. Here, the women were worked till they were sick!. Some people died naturally due to pnuemonia, and other disease!.

Death camps were where the elderly mostly, as well as others, and they were put straight to death!. either by being thrown in the fire alive, and the screams of the people in there was deafening!. Or some were shot to death then burned!.

A good book/movie to read/watch is The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom!.

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Semantics really!.

Most concentration camps worked the prisioners to death!. Some didn't bother working them, they just used torture and gas chambers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Since WWII the terms have become conflated!. However, concentration bamps were used before - they were essentially somewhere to concentrate all of your POW's in one place!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

concentration camps torture u and death camps just get it done quick(no suffering)
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