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Metro135

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4. Not all of the concentration camps were death camps

Reply to imthevicar (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 5, 2014, 09:00 PM

Jun 2014

Of course, thousands died in them as the war progressed since the prisoners were worked to death and often starved. The camps that were literally factories of death, like Auschwitz, with gas chambers and crematoria, didn't become fully operational until around 1942.

I'm not sure if Buchenwald installed gas chambers at some point, but I doubt they were operating in 1938 - 1939.

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