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Types of Camps

  • Hostage or Death Camps: Were camps where prisoners were held captive and later killed.

  • Labor Camps: Camps were inmated were forced to do hard physical labor under cruel conditions and treatment.

  • Prison of War Camps (POW camps): Were camps where prisoners of war were held and tortured after being captured.

  • Rehabilitation Camps: Camps where educated Polish people were sent to be re-educated with Nazi beliefs.

  • Transit and Collection Camps: Camps where prisoners were collected and taken to bigger camps, or temporarily held there.

  • Extermination Camps: Where all new prisoners were immediately killed.


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