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In reply to the discussion: I'm gobsmacked that this post seems to be necessary: A Presentation of Godwin's Law: [View all]DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Are you really this goddamned slow?
Concentration camps: slave labor, with huge amounts of terror, indiscriminate killing, and yes, gassing workers. But the main function was for LABOR for Germany's WAR EFFORT.
Death camps: for KILLING people.
Numbers you posted: 78,000 | 57,000 | 32,000
Numbers from extermination camps:
1,100,000 | 600,000 | 320,000 | 360,000 | 65,000 (outlier!) | 250,000 | 700,000
See any difference in those numbers, or is your math as atrocious as your history? Yes, there were gas chambers at some concentration camps. Yes, concentration camps were horrible places where many, many thousands of people died due to capricious violence, gassing, being worked to death, or sickness. The primary function (again) of concentration camps was slave labor for the war effort, and secondarily a holding area for those who would one day be executed. Those eventual executions happened, for the most part, at extermination camps/death camps.
The primary, the ONLY function of death camps, was to kill people.
If this is how you deal with factual material, I want nothing to do with the opinions you've formed all on your own. You're not very good at this. My job is easier. I have factual information on my side. I'd have posted links long ago showing that death camps and concentration camps are different entities, but really, what good would it have done? Facts have been laid at your feet, and you act as though these are up for discussion. They are not.
Get on down to the library and start reading, unless you want to remain in ignorance.