What was the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp?
A) There was no difference; both were places of death, experimentation, and torture.
B) Concentration camps were places where POWs were relocated to serve as slave labor for the German war machine. Famine, torture, and disease awaited many. The Extermination camps, like Auschwitz, were where Jews were sent to the showers where they were locked in and exposed to Zyklon B gas (an insecticide) to kill them.
C) Concentration camps were set up to house POWs, while extermination camps were strictly for killing the POWs that grew too numerous to feed.
D) Concentration camps were places where Jews and others were relocated to serve as slave labor for the German war machine. Famine, torture, and disease awaited many. The Extermination camps, like Auschwitz, were where Jews were sent to the showers where they were locked in and exposed to Zyklon B gas (an insecticide) to kill them.
E) None of these
D
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