List of main concentration camps, ghettos and extermination camp:
In 1933, upon taking office, A.Hitler ordered the creation of large concentration camps in order to put away all those who, according to the Nazi regime, are "lower races", "associaux" or political opponents. These camps must allow to using the prisoners as labor in the war effort, without having bothered to hinumaines of conditions there was inflicted on prisoners. Although the primary purpose of these camps were not to be the death camps, bad treatment, many hours of forced work, famine and disease decimated thousands of people, making camps of death.
In 1941, appears a "mixed" camps to be used in concentration camps but also extermination camps and whose only goal is the extermination.
The different death camps:
"Konzentrationlager" is the German term for concentration camps, German abbreviations "K" and "Kz".
"Vernichtungslager" is the German term for the extermination camps.
"Ghettos" although the Ghettos are an imposed districts for Jewish,where they lived according to their laws and customs, the Nazi regime used to gather in the Jews awaiting their deportation. These area are becoming large prisons, poorly stocked, life is like in the ghettos to concentration camps.
"T4" or "Aktion T4" is the common name to refer to the Nazi campaign to eradicate mental or physical disabilities, which they said were "an unnecessary burden to society." All means of assassination were used: gas, lethal injection, famines etc ... its name comes from the address of the central office of the transaction that was in the street Tiergartenstrasse at No. 4.
The triangles on concentration camps
The German authorities have put in place a system of COLORS triangles to differentiate the different types of prisoners. These triangles and placed them in a hierarchy where prisoners were more or less considered in the hell of the camps.
list for concentration, extermination, Ghettos & Aktion T4 Camps